Tag: portraiture
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The Cat’s Whiskers
100 Day Project Day 62 I finished a painting today, and I know how I feel about that. I started another project that involved journaling that brought up some unexpected darkness, and I know how I feel about that. I know how I feel about all the things that are happening in the world today,…
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No Time, Still Showed Up
100 Day Project Day 61 Other things had to be done today, so very limited time for art. I did show up to do a preliminary sketch for another portrait class. I don’t know if I’ll use this sketch, but it’s the art I made today, so I’m posting it. Til the morn, Suzanne
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Artist Influence
100 Day Project Day 60 I confess that I got a new book today, or at least new to me. It’s a retrospective of the Scottish artist Pat Douthwaite, an artist I am currently obsessed with. Douthwaite trained as a dancer, then became an artist in later life, which is just absolutely right up my…
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Cat Girl
100 Day Project Day 59 I have been procrastinating about this painting for ten days. I had the substrate prepped, and the figure sketched, and now I see from scrolling back through this blog that it really is ten days. If I had a pound for every reason and excuse – they are all excuses,…
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One pose four drawings
100 Day Project Day 55 I spent a couple of hours doing figure drawing practise today. I chose one pose from the Figure Drawing Studio CD and used it as my reference. There’s a lot of foreshortening in the pose, so it’s a good challenge for my brain to try and render what I am…
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Blogging is self-care
100 Day Project Day 53 I was having a conversation about blogging, and showing up to create every day, and the way that has turned into a form of self-care. The friend I was having the conversation with described her stash of art materials, and the fact she just can’t just now, and her self-care…
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Speechless
100 Day Project Day 52 I watched the Netflix documentary The Anti-Social Network last night, and it’s a wild ride in terms of condensing the reasons we are where we are in terms of truth and discourse. I highly recommend it. I’m thinking about it a lot as a watch the Scottish political scene descending…
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Raw umber and charcoal
100 Day Project Day 45 In a wild attempt to produce three class paintings so I can catch up with Let’s Face It, I worked on two paintings today. I had prepped both the substrates the other day, so I had no excuses, but you can be rest-assured that all manner of procrastination was undertaken.…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
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Summertime Blues
100 Day Project Day 43 Summertime officially started today, with the loss of an hour as we spring forward. I was actually awake when my phone reset the time at 1am, which just made the whole thing much more of a shock than usual. It’s just an hour, but it really is confusing in ways…
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Toothiness
100 Day Project Day 41 I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been…
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Painting from my own painting
100 Day Project Day 39 A fun way to practise is copying your own work, it’s a good exercise in trying to recreate colours, and shapes, and it’s also interesting to see where the energy of a piece goes on the next take. I was playing with this idea today by taking a recent face…
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