Tag: portrait
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Four Hundred Days
Day 29 of the 100 Day Project. I tried a different process for laying down the paint today, and although it hasn’t been entirely successful, I liked what I learned. I think the process is perhaps a challenge to complete in a hour, or perhaps more practise will make it easier. I could have painted…
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The Eyes Don’t Have It
Day 28 The 100 Day Project A choice between not painting, and not reaching a 400 day streak of daily art tomorrow, or doing a fast and wonky effort. I chose fast and wonky and my streak. You win some, you lose some, that’s art. If there’s one thing I have learned over the past…
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Smol Me
I had a battle with procrastination again today, but I eventually got there, around about the time the Noise Men started cleaning up their mess, and looking like they are finished. Yay. I decided on another selfie, and used a palette from a couple of weeks back – yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, caput mortuum, phthalo…
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Selfies
I spent a short age trying to choose a reference, but nothing was speaking to me, so I found some selfies I had taken a while back where I was messing with different expressions but hadn’t tried painting them. The Morning Sketch looks nothing like the photo, but I was enjoying the interpretation so much…
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Blue
Day 24 I like the Morning Sketch better than the painting, but the fact I made anything at all today is the win. The news from every corner is devastating. Horrific. Til the morn, Suzanne 395/400
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Painting From a Sketch
Day 23 Instead of using a photo for reference, I used my Morning Sketch as a reference for this, which was interesting in terms of loosening the internal dialogue. I played around with the oil paints and mixes left on my palette from yesterday, and that lush background colour came from phthalo turquoise and quinacridone…
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Make It Stop
The reference I chose today reflects my mood when I opened my phone this morning and saw footage of that Vance person haverin jobbies about Europe. No. The things that he says are happening are just not true. FFS Til the morn, Suzanne 393/400
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Dusky Pink
Day 21 of my alla prima adventure. They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, so I guess I’m in the habit of being an oil painter. Today I used the Zorn palette again, and this one went towards the pinkish reddish corner. I was trying the scrubby, rubbish brushes technique again, and…
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Side Eye
Day 20 of the 100 Day Project This morning I was feeling all motivated for a good day of painting, meaning to get started early, and had the feeling I was in an energised frame of mine, and more likely to pull that off. I was cracking on, ticking the boxes, and then my bliss…
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More In Profile
Day 19 I like this more a few hours after finishing it than I did when I finished it. I go through that with some of them. I did this with the Zorn Palette, but added in raw umber and used zinc white instead of titanium. I may use a different palette when I give…
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Day 18 in Profile
Day 18 of 100 Days of Alla Prima. This feels much more challenging than last year’s 100 Day Project. I’m also finding the social media element challenging, that definitely creates much more of a tendency to get lost in self-criticism chatter. Til the morn, Suzanne 389/400
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Day 16 of 100 mini oil portraits
Day 16 Til the morn, Suzanne 387/400
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