Tag: portrait
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Three Value Thirst
Giving my decrepit shitty brush a rest and pulling out a bright #4 for a value study portrait. I used caput mortuum and some titanium white to create three values on the palette, although I didn’t use much of the white in the end, because I decided to use the sketchbook paper as the lighter…
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Stumpy Brush
One thing that’s not obvious when I post here is the difference in size between one sketch and another. I have a habit of doing these portrait sketches in an A4 sketchbook, but this one is in A3, so twice the size. “Big head, big head, big head” as Chandler would say. My poor little…
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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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