Tag: portrait
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Know The Feeling
I like to challenge myself. I have sketched this one a few times, but decided it was too complex for a one hour small portrait, and it probably still is, but I enjoyed giving it a go. That’s Day 15 of 100 done. Til the morn, Suzanne 386/400
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Screams At Fat (paint)
Twenty minute warm-up sketch was a precursor to the feelings I was having doing the one hour portrait for the 100 Day Project. I did not have any sort of plan, and hadn’t even done a warm-up sketch of this reference, I just dived in. I got a little over-zealous with the fat over lean…
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Selfie Reacts to the News
I had a different reference in mind for my 100 Day Project piece today, but I was not over the moon with the twenty minute sketch I did from it, and decided to try with a selfie instead. I am not sure why I thought the would be more fun than the other image. I…
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Back To It
I got myself a new medium from Gamblin that is solvent free. It’s supposed to be a substitute for Liquin, and it definitely doesn’t smell like Liquin, which stinks, but it’s my first try with it, so I am not sure if I like it. I switched things up today in a couple of other…
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Early Morning Motivation
Today’s big challenge was getting this done before the arrival of a dog. He belongs to my folks, and this is his first sleepover since they adopted him. I didn’t think it was feasible to do timed oil painting with a somewhat high-energy dog, so I got up early and did not procrastinate, and got…
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100 Day Project Day 2
I started the art day with a twenty minute timed sketch, and this is feeling good as a way to start the day. I’m probably going to use that practise as a first sketch for my 100 Day one hour portraits, it’s a good way to get a feel for the shapes before starting with…
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100 Day Project Day 1
Today was very odd. Yesterday I was fired up and excited about starting the new 100 Day Project, and then today I was feeling very blocked. No, not blocked, tight. I know why – I am used to sharing my art here, and I’m comfortable with that, but this project also has the social media…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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One Hour Oil Painting
I tried something a little different today. In fact I tried quite a lot of things a little different today. I have been in a half-slump lately, and it doesn’t manifest every day, but often I find myself struggling to start, and one of the themes is “I don’t know what I want to paint”.…
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The Vivienne Tribute Portrait
I have a list of people that I am interested in painting, and when I added The Vivienne to that list I did not imagine for one second that I would be painting them following their death. RIP queen, 32 is far too young to have left us. I think I have finished my tribute…
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Back to the Glam
Resting the portrait was slowly morphing into avoiding the portrait which risks slowly morphing into not finishing the portrait, so I had a quiet word with myself and squeezed some paint on the palette. I have changed the eyes and the jawline, done more work on the lips and nose, and I am much, much…
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Making Fake Believable
Today was all about the hair, and a few tweaks to the lips and eyes, but I wasn’t in the mood for doing much to the face. I think what’s left to do to the face needs to happen at the end, once all the colours everywhere else are in place. This is a really…
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