Tag: portraiture
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Subtle Underpainting
I had a very productive and varied day in the studio today, and feel very accomplished. Yay. I started with my habit-in-development, a timed twenty minute sketch. It wasn’t particularly good, but the sketchbook is filling up. Next up I prepped seven 6×8″ sheets ready to begin the 100 Day Challenge tomorrow. I decided having…
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Quatro
Mini portrait umber four is complete. This is for Week 4 of Let’s Face It with Laurie Johnson. Model & Photographer: Sasha Sears Source: Museum/SKTCHY app I’m in catch-up mode with the classes at the moment, but I’m not stressing about it. I’m painting every day, and that’s what I’m focused on. I really enjoyed…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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Closed Eyes Pouting
I rocked the day today. I am trying out a new app that is recommended for overcoming neurospicy Things. It’s called Habitica, and I am liking it a lot. Of course it’s a very neurospicy thing to start a new Thing and rock the first day or even ten, so I’ll see how it goes.…
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Timed Portrait Exercises
The timed sketch to start the day happened again. Since I had prepped some paper for a mini paintings exercise, I decided to use the first reference as my reference for the drawing. I gave myself twenty minutes. The painting is on 12×16″ watercolour paper that has been prepped for oil painting, and divided into…
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One Hour Oil Painting
I tried something a little different today. In fact I tried quite a lot of things a little different today. I have been in a half-slump lately, and it doesn’t manifest every day, but often I find myself struggling to start, and one of the themes is “I don’t know what I want to paint”.…
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The Vivienne Tribute Portrait
I have a list of people that I am interested in painting, and when I added The Vivienne to that list I did not imagine for one second that I would be painting them following their death. RIP queen, 32 is far too young to have left us. I think I have finished my tribute…
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Back to the Glam
Resting the portrait was slowly morphing into avoiding the portrait which risks slowly morphing into not finishing the portrait, so I had a quiet word with myself and squeezed some paint on the palette. I have changed the eyes and the jawline, done more work on the lips and nose, and I am much, much…
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Making Fake Believable
Today was all about the hair, and a few tweaks to the lips and eyes, but I wasn’t in the mood for doing much to the face. I think what’s left to do to the face needs to happen at the end, once all the colours everywhere else are in place. This is a really…
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Refining the Eyes
I spent most of my painting time today on the eyes and lips. They still need some adjusting, but they are getting there. I also blocked in the dress. This is an interesting challenge, not least because I don’t often paint clothes, and this dress is covered in crystals. It’s also a little bit see-through,…
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Drama Queen
This was looking absolutely terrible to me, I mean leaving the room in a flounce considering pouring gesso over it terrible. I’m invested in doing this one well. I came back and mixed a close-to black and used the palette knife to put it on the background, and it immediately looked much better, and I…
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Painting a Queen
I spent a chunk of time fiddling with the charcoal sketch today, before starting to apply paint. There are still some proportions that need to be fiddled with, but I am happy with the way this one is going. Til the morn, Suzanne 327/400
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