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Tag: portraiture

  • From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    I had a little tidying and organising session today. I gathered together a bunch of things that I had stored in several different places and sorted them into groups of similar things. They are all things I have collected to use on the gel plates, but I never pull them out because they are in…

  • Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    I have been testing an inkjet image of this drawing which was printed on copy paper the same day I made prints using all the different papers. The test is simply spraying a small section of the print with water, and seeing what happens. The first test was the day the print was made, and…

  • Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    While I am leaving the inkjet prints on various papers to dry for a few days, I decided to revisit another experiment I first wanted to try a few years ago. I can tell you it was a few years ago because I looked up the date I bought the freezer paper on the big…

  • Ongoing Experiment

    Ongoing Experiment

    I thought I had solved the bleeding ink conundrum, but it was not the ink setting on the printer that caused the bleed. I had fun doing this, even though it’s technically a failure. It’s not a failure, I don’t look at art experiments that way. I have two theories. The first is that maybe…

  • Transparency Discrepancy

    Transparency Discrepancy

    Today’s timed sketch was done using only the Blackwing 602 pencil and my shammy cloth. I think I prefer mixing the types of graphite. Now onto the main event – experimenting with the transparencies. Yesterday I printed my drawing onto tissue paper, and it was very fragile, but gave a promising result, even on a…

  • Sketch and Image Transfer

    Sketch and Image Transfer

    This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…

  • Sketching Therapy

    Sketching Therapy

    Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500

  • Beauty Spot

    Beauty Spot

    This one needs more than an hour to do the beautiful age lines justice, but this is a good first go. Til the morn, Suzanne 436/500

  • Grey Beanie

    Grey Beanie

    This is a reference I have drawn previously, but never painted. I don’t smoke, so that’s not why I like it, I just like her attitude. I’m definitely feeling that as I’m watching our institutions destroy our Equality legislation. Protect The Dolls Til the morn, Suzanne 435/500

  • Clown

    Clown

    When you start painting a self-portrait and it’s not going the way you like you can either push through the discomfort and ugly phase, or act on an impulse and smear a clown face over it, and that’s what I did today. I could write some things about going beyond the reference, but this was…

  • Teeth

    Teeth

    This was an interesting exercise. The reference is in black and white, but it is quite overexposed, leaving not much in the way of value, and no colour clues, so I had quite a lot of room for interpretation. The teeth were quite a challenge, because of the small size of the paper, but I…

  • Contrast

    Contrast

    That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500