Tag: painting
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Sketchbook Filled
I finished a sketchbook today. Woo hoo. I started it in March, so that’s not bad going. I had three spreads, or six pages left, and they are now painted. I played with the “ancient palette” again, and I can tell you that I don’t like it on a dusky pink ground, but that’s precisely…
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Earthy Palettes
I am trying out a couple of different palettes here based on earthy hues. I saw something somewhere about an “ancient palette”, but I can’t find it again, so I’m working off memory and imagination. The portrait on the left is a very limited palette: unbleached titanium, caput mortuum, raw sienna and olive green. The…
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Satisfied Sigh
I’m finally happy with a version of this pose. I think I’ve figured out that she is slightly tilted away on the left side (her right hand) and her hands are not the same distance from the viewer. I used a very limited palette of unbleached titanium, raw umber and French ultramarine for this one,…
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Painting Feet But Different
I spent a bit of time rearranging my studio today, partly in response to what happened with this large A1 sheet of paper. I had it flat on the floor to spread gesso, then some acrylic paint, and because I was a little tight for space, I had stepped on the page and got paint…
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Things Change
I was a bit discombobulated this morning because my lodger dog arrived. For some reason I thought he would be arriving in the afternoon, and was a bit surprised to get the message he and his humans were arriving the back of eleven. I had time to get a quick art session in before he…
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Reflecting
Two versions of the same reference. For some reason I did the first one in my A4 sketchbook, even though there’s a hand, so it meets the criteria for my A3 sketchbook. The background was already there, from using up paint at some point, and it worked quite well. The second painting is in the…
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Sponge and Painty
I started today’s practice with a colour mixing exercise, but I was not in the mood for swatching in grids, so I shelved the sketchbook and used the paint for some figure painting. This was painted using sponge brushes, which don’t give you much space for perfectionism, and are just lots of fun to use.…
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Repeat Until Satisfied
I’m still obsessed with this hand and foot pose, and I’m really enjoying the process. Somewhere in between yesterday’s painting (r) and today’s is where I want to end up. I do like the black I mixed today, I’m going to play with that more tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 587/600
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Hand and Foot Combo
The hand and foot combination that was bugging me before my trip was given a full A3 page, and some large untidy brushes, to try and make sense of it. I definitely got closer to the shapes and placements, so I’m happy with that. Til the morn, Suzanne 586/600
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Comparison Sketchbook Spread
Yesterday (L) compared with today (R). Yesterday I used vermillion, cad yellow, and cobalt blue for my palette, and today I switched the cobalt for ultramarine, so it’s a nice spread for comparing the difference a single colour can make. I inadvertently tested out the difference between two similar brushes, but this was unintentional. I…
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Introvert
I painted quite a bit today, and by the time I was trying to wrap this one up, whatever is going on with my painting arm was rebelling. There are a few bits where I finished up with my non-dominant hand, so that was fun. I was trying out a brush I’ve had sitting around…
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Back Off
I sketched and painted back of the head views today, and then finished up with this one incorporating the back view and the hands theme. A real beezer of complexity, this one, which I made even more difficult for myself with my choice of brush. I used a Daler-Rowney XL Filbert brush, size 50. It’s…
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