Tag: portrait
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Dry Media Day
This looks quite blue to me, but that’s probably because all the curtains were closed to try and keep the temperature down. I don’t know what to say about people who are in denial about climate change. Do they live in a temperature controlled basement? This is Scotland during the school holidays, it’s meant to…
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Painting Without Seeing Colour
The heat continues to build, and I continue to grunch aboot it. I spent most of the day working in sketchbooks, in the coolest room in the house, but I did get the paint out to play with this portrait for a while. I plopped some colours on a gel plate and then experimented with…
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More Hot Paint
It’s even hotter than yesterday, so I should consider knocking the acrylic painting on the head for a while. I decided this after I was already committed to this piece, tho, so I kept going. The boring parcel of yesterday becomes the interesting basis for this exercise. I cut a piece off the cartridge paper…
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Hot Paint
I did a bit of rearranging today. I have a large box full of canvases in various sizes, but I never use them because the box had a wooded board on top that became a kind of shelf for other things. So I’ve shuffled things around a bit, and maybe I will start using more…
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Soft Pastel Everywhere
I am having a lot of fun with this one, not least because whatever perimenopause shite is going on with my hip/knee combo seems to be easing, and I’ve been able to stand for longer periods of time. Yay. This is two more sessions from the last time I posted. The first session involved a…
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Moods and Muslces
My studio was overgrown with clutter which isn’t really clutter, it’s art supplies and wips, but it had moved on from creative chaos to just chaos, so I cleared the decks and reset everything, and that’s always a good feeling. I also spent some time looking at all the photos I took during our recent…
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Side-Eye in Chisel Tip
A length of brown paper cut off the roll and clipped to an A2 board is one of my go-tos this week, and I am falling head over heels for my singular Liquitex chisel point marker. It’s a different way to make marks, and completely out of the comfort zone of scratchy brushes and moveable…
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Mixed Marks
I added more texture to my very textured portrait today. I used marble dust, which I have never used before, so this is very much a do it and see what happens. I am not by any stretch of the imagination and old master, although my left knee may well be, but not at painting,…
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Going Grey
I have been procrastinating, and I procrastinated again today. In fairness, my procrastination took the form of other creative pursuits, rather than inventing housework, or doomscrolling, but it was still procrastination. I’m not even sure why I was procrastinating, because I knew exactly what my next steps were, with the exception of what I wanted…
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Background Layers
I was hoping to get a bit more of this done today, but it was one of those days when there were deliveries due, and I just don’t settle until they are dealt with. This was made more frustrating because the second delivery made it to right outside my house, and I stood and watched…
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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