Tag: painting
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Another Three Hour Portrait
I have been quite comfy in my practise without even realising how comfy I have been, so these challenges I have set myself this week have really bounced me out of that. Sketching with a single colour of paint is obviously very different from producing a portrait that is resolved, mixing skin tones, and using…
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Three Hour Portrait
I have been watching old episodes of the Portrait Artist of the Year series, and marvelling at the artists who take part. I decided to see what it’s like to start and finish a portrait in four hours. Obviously I don’t have a live sitter, nor did I have people all around me, and conversations,…
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Reaching
I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…
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Horsing Around
I was musing to myself the other day about the idea of blogging every day, and whether I wanted to continue after the 200th day or not. It seemed like a good cut-off point to decided whether to end my streak, or whether to carry on. I weighed up the pros and cons of doing…
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Sketchbook Complete
I finished my A4 sketchbook today. I only started it in the last week of March, so that’s quite quick for me. I had no idea what direction this book was going to take when I started it, so it’s interesting to see what happened in there. Til the morn, Suzanne 203/300
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Grey
I had some mars black left from something I was working on, so I mixed in some zinc white to make a non-chalky grey, and then tried some portrait practise with it. I used a different brush instead of my bristly ones, too see what I came up with. I wasn’t a fan of the…
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Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence
Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…
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Two Hundred
Given that I wasn’t expecting to last even thirty days at this malarkey, I’m going to reward myself for sticking with this for two hundred days. I think it might be considered a habit now. I did not, as it happens, complete that sketchbook to coincide with this. I had a feeling that I wouldn’t,…
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Tidying My Studio Room
I spent a good chunk of my creative time rearranging and organising my Studio Room today. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I can only figure that out by working in it. I moved another daylight lamp in, which is going to come into major play as winter continues creeping, and…
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Painted All Day
Today I filled four spreads in my sketchbook, and this is the most coherent snippet from those pages… The spreads are all working out ideas for a painting, but it’s still in the early stages and I have the sense that if I talk about it, that might dissipate the energy around it. As I’ve…
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Intentional and Interesting Mud
A really good art day today with lots of little experiments, and working on ideas for two paintings that I may or may not paint, but I have the ideas bubbling away, and I am enjoying the explorations. Above is one of my sketchbook pages, and it’s a loose sketch of an element from an…
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Developing Idea
I was rooting through my sketchbooks today looking for a drawing, and as I was flicking through one I finished earlier this year, I noticed how vibrant and varied it was compared with the current sketchbook I am working in. Now at the time when I finished it, I thought it was maybe a bit…
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