Tag: painting

  • The Red Darkness

    The Red Darkness

    Today’s share is from my 100 Day Project, returning to a palette and look that I really enjoy. Til the morn, election day, Suzanne 809/900

  • Floccing Success

    Floccing Success

    Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook. I was using up paint on the palette after spending some time in a different sketchbook working on some ideas. I used a big shitty brush and gestural movements, and I like how this one came together. Flocculation update: it worked ๐Ÿ™‚ I need to rethink my receptacles,…

  • Friday Four

    Friday Four

    The figure painting top left is on an 8×8″ canvas, and is a work-in-progress. The other three images are 12×14″ gel prints. I am still being scraped on here, so I am changing the way I share images just now. I don’t think I should have to, but sharing freely on here shouldn’t mean my…

  • Sketchbook to Canvas

    Sketchbook to Canvas

    Yesterday’s sketchbook experiment inspired today’s 110 Day Project mini canvas. The ground on the canvas was leaning cooler than the sketchbook page, and I think I like the warmer version more. That can be altered. For some reason my phone camera has gone wild with the pink in this photo, and usually fluorescent or fluorescent…

  • Teasing Shapes

    Teasing Shapes

    Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook where I started with a quite dark ground and then teased the figure out with the light value magenta paint. There’s always a way to flip the rules. Til the morn, Suzanne 802/900

  • Two Sizes and Ratios

    Two Sizes and Ratios

    The difference between large and small. It’s much easier to fit the figure on the page, and that challenge is part of the fascination of doing these tiny boards. They take a bit longer to get right. This one isn’t right, yet, it will come. It’s funny the way the warm-up sketch sometimes is the…

  • 800 Days of Art

    800 Days of Art

    I do love these milestones, especially as someone who has a tendency to squirrel off the track and do side quests, and leave behind special interests, and then be accused of never making anything of anything blah, blah, and indeed, blah. The great thing about my commitment to daily art is the freedom, there’s no…

  • Surprise

    Surprise

    Today’s 6×6″ canvas for the 100 Day Project and the brush I used. Til the morn, Suzanne 799/800

  • Go Again

    Go Again

    A fun thing about acrylic paint is that it has two drying points. Initially it becomes touch dry quite quickly, and then around two weeks later it is cured, fully dry. There’s a nice window around the touch dry stage where you can kind of reactivate it with water. This is handy if the figure…

  • Brush Love

    Brush Love

    Two of my favourite brushes and today’s 100 Day canvas. Happy Friday, Til the morn, Suzanne 797/800

  • Fun and Finishing

    Fun and Finishing

    Fun with grunge on the gel plates today, because I don’t already have enough collage fodder ๐Ÿ˜€ For the 100 Day Project I worked on this canvas, which only had a basic sketch on it previously. I was using leftover paint from yesterday’s double canvas session, and having a bit of fun with value versus…

  • Which Do I Like More?

    Which Do I Like More?

    Interesting experiment. I play around with colour and use different colours for the ground all the time, but I don’t think I’ve ever painted two paintings together to compare how I feel one versus the other. It’s an entirely different exercise than painting one on a blue background on one day, and on another day…