Tag: painting
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From Sketchbook to Painting
I was at risk of spending all my time doing more sketches of this reference, but I started on the painting proper, even though I only had time for a graphite sketch and a first block in of the shadows with raw umber. The graphite sketch was really bothering me, but the paint has improved…
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Three Brushes Three Sketches
Today I have been working in my sketchbook doing multiple sketches of the same reference photo. I have mostly been using my trusty caput mortuum sketch blend, although I did do one sketch in graphite. This is a Let’s Face It class, and the reference is the artist herself, so I’m setting myself the challenge…
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Woman With Fringe
All the sketches and paintings and play that danced out of a single reference photo, and across the pages of this blog, are part of the story of this finished painting. I think we get caught up in the presentation of art on social media as being fast, instant, easy, and maybe that’s true for…
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Third Pass Nearly There
I have to laugh at myself. A while back I made myself a stay-wet palette, and even wrote a blog about it. I tested it out and decided it would work perfectly for doing larger paintings where I need to save mixed colours for the next day. Yesterday I worked on this painting, and I…
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First Pass Keep Going
Yesterday’s photo appears much more blue than the actual canvas, and my phone seems to have a tendency to do that. Today’s pic is much more like it for the background. This is the first pass of this painting. I’m just playing with the limited palette I chose, and blocking in values. The reference photo…
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It’s Just Paper
Paint made it onto canvas today, and I have a first sketch down. I realised today that my brain had somehow started subscribing to the idea that I must paint deeply meaningful paintings, and that I was treating canvases as if they are made of gold. Fascinating the way the inner critic can weedle its…
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Golden Ratio
A bit of an odd here’s what I did today photo, but it’s kind of the most coherent page from all the bits and pieces from today. I am piecing together ideas from recent work to put in a painting, so this is just my sketchbook page reference for composition ideas. It’s not very exciting,…
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Second Pass Colour Play
I continued playing with this little painting, adding some colour in a very limited palette, and using fluorescent magenta as the mother colour. Til the morn, Suzanne 242/300
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Happy Accident
I’m not feeling wordy today, or perhaps it’s more that if I start, I won’t stop. This is a painting I started today, and I love the happy accident of the daisy in the eye. Til the morn, Suzanne 241/300
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Not Me
This not a self-portrait, it’s a painting from a painting combined with looking in the mirror. It looks nothing like me, other than a flicker of the emotion I have been feeling when looking at the feeds this weekend. Til the morn, Suzanne 239/300
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Mirrie Dancers
I’m still obsessed with gel printing from orange bags, and obsessed in general with my little 3×5″ gel plate. Aside from playing with that, and more work filling my little gel plate sketchbook, I made a face in my A4 book. So many ways to make a face – realistic portraiture, or using a reference…
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Comfort Zone
Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300
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