Tag: portraiture
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Second Pass
100 Day Project Day 38 Today I set a timer for half an hour and worked in my sketchbook, and filled four pages. The first two pages look like normal human faces, and they arrived on the page without the use of models, or references. One of my favourite processes of creating something out of…
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Monday Musing
100 Day Project Day 37 I spent a lot of time in my sketchbooks today, and played with different materials: black fineliner, a grey lilac brushmarker from a set I never use, and my tub of mixed oil pastels that I also never use. I took stock of all my sketchbooks, just to try and…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Blocking Values
100 Day Project Day 33 Today I started another painting using the same reference photo that I used for the painting I finished yesterday. I’m not necessarily trying to get an exact likeness, I’m just using it as practise for seeing the values and shapes in the face. I decided to use cheap cartridge paper.…
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Old Copper and Rust
100 Day Project Day 32 It’s funny how a day that starts out in a clusterbùrach, and looks like it is going to be a write-off can be turned into a day that is good, and all it took was picking up a palette knife and scraping some paint around. I didn’t think I was…
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Productive Play
100 Day Project Day 31 Today I have been switching between several projects, anjoying being in The Zone, and tryingt to ignore whatever my perimenopausal body is throwing at me today. I’m definitely not going to be officially at menopause in March next year, ho hum. I was playing with coloured pencils doing some mini…
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Photo Finish and Pots
100 Day Project Day 30 I finished a class painting. Woo Hoo. It’s for the Let’s Face It course I am doing, and I am so pleased to have completed Week 8 on the day the Week 12 class drops. Ha. I lost the momemtum a bit around mid February, and I think that’s just…
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Not Nice
100 Day Project Day 19 There’s a bit of discourse on the socials about the word nice, and some people are just finding out that being nice isn’t the same thing as being kind, or being good, and that being nice, Nice, is more of a facade that covers a lot of nasty. It’s not…
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Self Portrait Work In Progress
100 Day Project Day 9 Today was a perfect art day, I was buzzing about doing All The Art. It was one of those days where I felt like I was on top of my game. I unwrapped two canvases and got my gesso layers on. They do come with the claim that they are…
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Scent of a Rose finished painting
100 Day Project Day 8 I think I am done with my oil painting. The photo isn’t perfect because some places on the painting are wet, and also we have bright sunshine and this is just a pic for this diary. I don’t paint in oils very often, and I am quite pleased with this,…
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Procrastination Cessation
100 Day Project Day 7 I wholly recommend naming your procrastination publicly on a daily basis, as I finally broke through and opened a tube of oil paint today. I tried all the excuses have been running in my head for the past however long it is, things like “oh it’s too late in the…
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100 Day Project 2024 Day 1
Just in at the last minute for Day 1 of the #100dayproject, although this blog is being posted on Day 2, but that’s how I roll. It was after 10pm here when I remembered, so this is a quick sketch using a selfie profile photo for reference. No daylight for taking the pic of the…
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