Tag: portrait
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Apologies
My apologies, I think I have been too kind. The whole time I was painting this I was asking myself ‘what is the colour for this skin tone? what is the colour of a dying patriarchy?’ 6×6″ canvas board, acrylic 100 Day Project Day 2 Til the morn, Suzanne 737/800
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How To Art and things
Over the past few evenings I read How To Art by Kate Bryan. I have been trying a new evening routine whereby I do not take my phone to bed, and instead I read. This tiny change has already improved my wellbeing. I had to buy an alarm clock, because I have for years been…
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Staring Selfie Layers
I made this background yesterday, and today I went with the same selfie that I was playing with yesterday. It’s a photo that is intentionally a bit weird, so the staring is capturing what’s in the photo. I wiped off the neck and shoulders because I didn’t like what was happening, so that’s why it…
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Disrupt Me
Playing with disruption and self portraiture today. I set up three sheets of A2 cartridge paper and took a photo of my face and used that as a reference. The idea isn’t to chase a likeness, it’s to experiment with disrupting the face and seeing what happens, and what I like and what I do.…
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Round and Round
Things got a bit carried away today as my washing machine decided to get stuck in a perpetual cycle and I spent an inordinate amount of time watching the thing going round and round hoping I had managed to coax it into a different cycle that would result in it beeping and letting me open…
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Second Pass Brushy Layers
This one is coming along nicely. I’ve been using one of those cheap, shitty brushes in the largest size to build the layers on this, but I’m not at the stage of bringing in a smaller, but still scratchy and shitty, one for a bit of detail. The palette I’m using is limited to phthalo…
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Brush Stash
The stash of new brushes on the right are to expand my oil painting brush collection, which is kind of a commitment to doing more oil painting. I don’t usually post new supplies pics, but look at the the tiny oil paper block I ordered, it’s so cute! I’m aware that I do things like…
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Phthalo Highlights
I think she’s done, but I’ll know in the morning. Oil on oil paper, 16×12″ Til the morn, Suzanne 713/800
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Looking Left
This has come out more blue than turquoise on my phone, but it’s a yummy phthalo turquoise for the background. This is the first layer blocking in values and claiming the page, which is 16×12″ oil paper. I’m experimenting with a limited palette: phthalo turquoise, phthalo blue, burnt sienna, cadmium red and white. It’s an…
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Red Net
16×12″ acrylic on 300gsm paper I think he’s finished, but you never know, I might go back in tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 704/800
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First Pass Portrait
There’s a lot to fix, but this is the first pass, and all the paper is claimed, and I am enjoying where it is going. Beards and facial hare are not my favourite thing, but the only way to get better is to get better. I’m using a Zorn palette with cadmium red as the…
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