Tag: portraiture
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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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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Resource Unlocked
Immensely chuffed with myself today for finally doing a small task that has been lingering for far too long. I have a CD-ROM of figure poses, I think there are 1,600 options, that I have been meaning to transfer to my flash drive for months, probably longer. Today I finally performed this really quite simple…
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Chonky Marker
I was searching this blog to try and find a reference to when I finished my last A4 sketchbook so I could date the spine, because I neither dated the last page, nor dated the spine at the time. I eventually located the post, but on the way I got a kind of tour of…
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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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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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A Plan Comes Together-ish
There was a lot of pottering about with various things today, and the most photogenic is this one. I have nailed the printing and transparency aspect of this idea, and now I have to get the fiddly, very thin, very wet, very much wanting to cling to itself thing to land where I want it…
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Planting Ideas and Things
I had an unplanned stint in the garden today because a pot luck box of Sedum cuttings arrived a day early. I’m not complaining. The box was stuffed with way more plants than I was expecting, and I’m not complaining about that either. Some of them are so tiny, but they are easy to get…
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Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)
I was thinking I had probably exhausted the options for this deep-dive, other than honing my skills with the application process, and I was thinking I was satisfied with my discoveries. Then I had an idea. I wasn’t even thinking about art, or this process, or anything at all to do with art, I was…
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