Tag: portraiture
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This Week’s Theme Is…
Challenging expressions. Day51/100 I’m tempted to just stick with this one reference photo for the week, as I think I can get a lot out of this one. I’ve chosen a few for the week, tho, just to carry on with the experiment of planning and theming. I really wanted to be working on a…
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Fifty Days Fifty Portraits
Day 50 of the 100 Day Project and here are all fifty portraits. There was one portrait that I completed over two days because I was having a pain issue, and there was another day early on where I was so appalled at what I painted that I painted a second portrait, so I’m including…
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Pearls
With the exception of a few minutes around the eye, I used one large long flat for this, and it was a good challenge. Til the morn, Suzanne 419/500
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Sketchbook Pages
I haven’t been posting from my sketchbooks recently, so here are a couple from the sketchbook I’m working in the most at the moment. It is a 9×12″ spiral bound sketchbook in portrait format with slightly toothy paper. I use it for my morning sketch practise, which is currently focused on portrait drawing, but that…
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Negative Space
Day 46 of the 100 Day Project. I used the Zorn Palette again, mostly because there were leftover little piles of paint that I thought I could use up. I went through an ugly phase and decided it was the wrong palette, but the clock was ticking, so I had to work the palette, and…
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Success and Interference
Last night I spent a little time looking at reference photos, and decided on profiles as a theme for this week. I set up a note in my phone designating a reference for each day, and made some other notes about things I’d like to get stuck into if I manage to give myself more…
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The Eyes Don’t Have It
Day 28 The 100 Day Project A choice between not painting, and not reaching a 400 day streak of daily art tomorrow, or doing a fast and wonky effort. I chose fast and wonky and my streak. You win some, you lose some, that’s art. If there’s one thing I have learned over the past…
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Smol Me
I had a battle with procrastination again today, but I eventually got there, around about the time the Noise Men started cleaning up their mess, and looking like they are finished. Yay. I decided on another selfie, and used a palette from a couple of weeks back – yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, caput mortuum, phthalo…
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A Day
Day 26 of 100 Another from a selfie while having hot flashes and dealing with someone pumping music into my house from their van. This is not usual for our street, and it’s quite stressful. I usually do these 100 Day Project pieces in an hour, I gave up after 40 minutes because I was…
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Painting From a Sketch
Day 23 Instead of using a photo for reference, I used my Morning Sketch as a reference for this, which was interesting in terms of loosening the internal dialogue. I played around with the oil paints and mixes left on my palette from yesterday, and that lush background colour came from phthalo turquoise and quinacridone…
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Make It Stop
The reference I chose today reflects my mood when I opened my phone this morning and saw footage of that Vance person haverin jobbies about Europe. No. The things that he says are happening are just not true. FFS Til the morn, Suzanne 393/400
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Dusky Pink
Day 21 of my alla prima adventure. They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, so I guess I’m in the habit of being an oil painter. Today I used the Zorn palette again, and this one went towards the pinkish reddish corner. I was trying the scrubby, rubbish brushes technique again, and…
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