Tag: portrait
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New Sketchbook Started
A ten-minute warm-up sketch in my A4 sketchbook to start the day, followed by a portrait with the face showing. Late last night I was thinking about my hands and feet sketchbook, and how much I am enjoying it, and I had the thought that I should start another A3 book just focused on portraits.…
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Luscious Layering
Today was a really good painting day working on lots of different things, different sketchbooks, and just lots of fun. I found a landscape sketchbook that I think Himself gifted me, and decided that it has obviously been sitting waiting for this day. The opening spread is now adorned with a fairly good representation of…
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A Face Is a Landscape
Me, my shitty brushes, a sketchbook, and I. Painting profiles are harder than I think, but I enjoyed the way I built this one in a probably unconventional way. More a jigsaw of shapes, starting with swirling mark-making for the hair, and extending from there, than a structured placement. One of my intentions with this…
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And Home Again
I’m home again after a day of mostly packing, travelling, unpacking, laundry and catching up with him indoors. I did squeeze in this portrait sketch, and was amused at the fact that when I have no time I always want to paint for hours, but when I do have hours, I often manage to fritter…
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Twenty Minute Paint Dash
There was a lot going on today, and I only managed a twenty minute window for painting. I hate this pose, which means I will be going back to it again until I find what it is I am looking for. The first thing I will be looking for is another hand under that chin,…
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Handy
Storm Floris was not a pleasant accompaniment to the day, but we appear to have suffered no damage, other than one very upright stem of my very wild rose bush might be broken. I went back to yesterday’s portrait and did some correcting, then hung it with the growing collection of brown paper pieces. When…
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Get Over It
I procrastinated ALL day. I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head, but I just did not make it into the studio to paint until I had thirty minutes until Himself was due home. Ugh. I hate those kind of days. Eventually I rolled out some brown paper and made a mid tone…
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Slains Fun
More sketchbook practise on a dining table with art supplies limited to a small travel art kit. Later in the day we visited Slain’s Castle for a wander about. Himself hadn’t been there before, so he went off with his camera, engrossed. I went a different way, and climbed one of the spiral staircases that…
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Teal Thirst
A dining table art session away from home, followed by some birthday art supplies shopping. I got myself some large brushes, but I won’t be able to use them for a week, because not my carpets. Til the morn, Suzanne 526/600
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Ode to a Doo
This is very much in the formative, ugly stage of whatever it’s going to be, which is very much what could be said about my entire day today. I did not get much sleep, and then when I eventually did get off to sleep, I was rudely awakened by a flippin horny wood pigeon telling…
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Indigo Shapes
Indigo and titanium white three value study. This reference has a very subtle head tilt that I seem to be attracted to in reference photos, and then subconsciously try to straighten things up when I am painting. So much so we know it as the effing David Tennant Tilt in this house 😀 No offense…
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Slow Shadows
I’m enjoying this sketchbook practise of value studies. I used some violet acrylic today, and a #4 filbert brush, which is quite a lot softer than my shitty brushes. I often like to work fast, and this practise is much more about slowing down, and being more decisive with my brushstrokes, and it’s definitely a…
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