Tag: portrait
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Not Painting That
100 Day Project Day 88 How I have procrastinated about a small watercolour portrait class today…. four pages in my A5 spiralbound sketchbook – two pages of graphite sketching, and two pages of Neocolor IIs sketching… making a mixed media background spread in my little square sketchbook… making another background in my altered book project……
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Invisible Productivity
100 Day Project Day 86 I read something somewhere recently about ADHDers making to do lists is more to do with the endorphin hit of the doing – list-making – than it is about getting anything on the list done. It was a humour post by an ADHD person, and of course I can’t remember…
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No Bears
100 Day Project Day 77 I started my online day being served a very bad AI image of a group of young women being chased by a humongous bear. I mean all AI images are very bad images, not least because they steal from creators, but the women’s faces in this image were distorted and…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Blocking Values
100 Day Project Day 33 Today I started another painting using the same reference photo that I used for the painting I finished yesterday. I’m not necessarily trying to get an exact likeness, I’m just using it as practise for seeing the values and shapes in the face. I decided to use cheap cartridge paper.…