Tag: portraiture
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Carmine Red Mood
I had a parcel due today, and it was due in a specific timeframe, and so I planned my day accordingly. I am one of those people who just can’t focus if there’s some sort of appointment or happening, but I thought it would be fine because the timeframe was morning. Pfft. The parcel, which…
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Fingers and Toes Again
I have run out of pyrrole red, but there’s more en-route 😉 I did have enough for this painting in my A3 sketchbook. I did a few other bits and pieces today, but this is my favourite. I’ve painted a version of this pose previously in a more muted palette. Til the morn, Suzanne 618/700
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Mirror Distortion
A similar study to yesterday, playing with a limited palette, a mirror, and a mood. This is not a self-portrait, it is just using my face as a reference, but going off on a tangent, playing with distortion, and the weird shadows I was getting from the low slung winter sun outside. I took my…
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Haunted
I have been experimenting with different reds as grounds, and I’ve also been trying different versions of the very limited palette in this painting, trying different reds to see what I like. Today I used pyrrole red, and swapped the unbleached titanium for titanium white. I quite like it, and it is definitely a response…
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It’s pink but it’s white
I have this tube of fluorescent pink acrylic that is almost finished, and it’s a few years old, so I’m on a mission to finish the tube. I smeared it on this sketchbook page, where it is less likely to be a fugitive, but it makes working my values kind of interesting because it is…
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Limited plus quinacridone red
Today I took the limited palette I used in this painting and I added quinacridone red to the palette. I’m going to try adding different reds to this palette to see what happens, and which ones I like the most. Til the morn, Suzanne 611/700
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Quiet Blue
A week of social interaction is followed by a day of quiet, and then playing with some of the new supplies I returned with. I also tried mixing a black using quinacridone red, phthalo green blue shade and ultramarine. I like it, it’s quite Payne’s grey in nature. I used what I had mixed for…
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Very Handy
I was hoping to get a longer painting session in today as I am dogsitting, but the angle I’m at sitting at a dining table painting is irritating whatever is niggling in my shoulder, so I decided to call it a day after the basic blocking in was done. Perhaps all the ball launching for…
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Budget Paint Swatch Sketch
I didn’t have much time today, as most of the day was taken up visiting the best dog park ever, followed by accumulating an art haul in two different shops. I bought some canvases, brushes, a gold ink that’s supposed to be the most gold ink you can get, a few brushes and a variety…
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Warm-up Sketch
A quick portrait sketch today as I’m a bit tired after a 5am start. I did have my sketching kit accessible during my train station layover, but it was black as pitch, so this is all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 605/700
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Melancholy Boy on Red
My To Do List was extensive today, my own doing because I’ve decided at the last minute to go off gallivantin the morn, so organising that took precedent. I did not attempt the last pass of my large portrait because that requires time to meander, and I didn’t want to ruin it. So a quick…
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Fiddling with Fingers
I spent a fair bit of time messing around in my sketchbook today doing productive procrastination. I was avoiding tackling the changes I wanted to make on this, mostly because I thought I was going to mess up the layers. Perfectionism on an experimental painting is just silly. I eventually got bold and went in…
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