Tag: portraiture
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It’s very pink, darling
After a lot of pottering cleaning gel plates, and gel plate storage clamshells, and cleaning stencils, and brayers, and brushes, and brush pots, and then sorting out the cat litter bucket for all my acrylic water, ready for collection tomorrow, I got stuck in to working on a 16×20″ canvas. For some reason this pic…
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Girl in this world
First finished painting of 2025. Yay! Acrylic on paper, 16×12″ 300gsm watercolour paper. This is my response to the first class in Let’s Face It 2025, with Kara Bullock. I decided to use the same reference as Kara (from Museum app) but do my own thing with the colour palette, composition, and style. Instead of…
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Looking Up Or Eye Rolling
I spent some time yesterday making collage fodder with a view to using it for this class project, and then got up and did something completely different from the plan. I made the background, then sketched this cute quine in with a few charcoal marks, and then did my underpainting with caput mortuum. Next I…
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Art Journal Progress
I have this A5 journal that I have been playing with for months. The project started with sessions of random mark-making, stencilling, stamping, scribbling, and whatever came to hand, until every page was no longer blank. In the meantime I have also used up excess paint, written in phrases, and occasionally worked a spread to…
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Sketching Ideas
Today I had another not-good day. It seems the festive season has gifted me with a sharp lurch into the next phase of perimenopause, and by fuck is it a complete and utter bastard. I did manage to spend some hot sweaty time in my sketchbook marvelling at how hot and sweaty I am as…
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! I started early with the first art of the year, not least because some bam was letting off fireworks nearby, despite it being horrific weather with 40-50mph wind gusts. Since I wasn’t settling to sleep, I got up and made some art. The paper is 12×16″ 140lb hot press, and I used…
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Look Up
I used my jumbo retractable pencil with the 5B lead for this one, and played with the reference a little. After the art, I went for a 5 mile walk, and while we were out, felt the weather change and get colder, which it hasn’t been this week, it has been far too warm for…
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Pondering
Contemplating the idea of a daily sketch as I have a tendency to forget about the joys of dry media. Pondering the new year, which comes after Hogmanay, and the Word of the Year, which is going to be a phrase it seems. I have definitely entered the end of year twilight zone where I…
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Xmas Sketch
Hope you have had a good day if you are celebrating, and if you aren’t celebrating, I hope the same. I got a sketchbook among my gifts, so what better way to keep the streak going than to test it out with a quick wee portrait. I also got a guillotine, so let’s herald a…
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Layers and Glazing
Continuing on with the piece I started yesterday, adding layers of marks, symbols and glazing. Always make notes about how you did things, because the piece that inspired this is a spread in an art journal that I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, but I’m having fun trying to…
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Layering Not Myself
I had a little more time in the studio today, so that was good. I have a block of watercolour paper that doesn’t like watercolour so I going to see how much of a beating it can take with mixed media. This has four layers before I got to the face, and it hasn’t rebelled.…
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Live Sitter
Oil painting again today, this time a bit of fun with a live sitter. Forty-five minutes, and if you turn it upside down, there’s even a likeness. It’s a long time since I’ve done any figure drawing or portraiture with a live sitter, and you can’t tape them to the drawing board in the usual…
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