Tag: sketchbook
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Handy
Storm Floris was not a pleasant accompaniment to the day, but we appear to have suffered no damage, other than one very upright stem of my very wild rose bush might be broken. I went back to yesterday’s portrait and did some correcting, then hung it with the growing collection of brown paper pieces. When…
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After Ken Currie
A busy, inspiring day today, starting with a trip to Aberdeen Art Gallery. I haven’t visited it for years, and I went to see an exhibition of women artist’s works on paper. That was interesting, and inspiring, but the painting that has stayed with me from wandering all the galleries is the one above. I…
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Sketchbook Spread
It’s fun to distort and elongate legs and shrink heads, but you really don’t have to do that with the pointy dog varieties, they do it all by themselves. The second sketch is a first go at a profile portrait that I haven’t sketched before, finding my way in to the nooks and crannies. Til…
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One Lurcher Lurching
The highlight of the day was a trip to a dog park for a flee about. I did not paint this from life, it was the best photo of the day, taken by Himself. There was no neon yellow paint in my tiny stash, so I improvised. Til the morn, Suzanne 528/600
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Slains Fun
More sketchbook practise on a dining table with art supplies limited to a small travel art kit. Later in the day we visited Slain’s Castle for a wander about. Himself hadn’t been there before, so he went off with his camera, engrossed. I went a different way, and climbed one of the spiral staircases that…
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Teal Thirst
A dining table art session away from home, followed by some birthday art supplies shopping. I got myself some large brushes, but I won’t be able to use them for a week, because not my carpets. Til the morn, Suzanne 526/600
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Half Hidden
Today’s postcard from the sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 521/600
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Indigo Shapes
Indigo and titanium white three value study. This reference has a very subtle head tilt that I seem to be attracted to in reference photos, and then subconsciously try to straighten things up when I am painting. So much so we know it as the effing David Tennant Tilt in this house 😀 No offense…
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Slow Shadows
I’m enjoying this sketchbook practise of value studies. I used some violet acrylic today, and a #4 filbert brush, which is quite a lot softer than my shitty brushes. I often like to work fast, and this practise is much more about slowing down, and being more decisive with my brushstrokes, and it’s definitely a…
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My Sad Onion Joy
I acquired a new collectible today, and I am completely in love with it. This wee sketch in my sketchbook doesn’t do it justice, it is the most darling, adorable, sad little onion ceramic lidded pot on the planet. The world is a horrible place, full to the brim with horror, and people telling you…
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Three Value Thirst
Giving my decrepit shitty brush a rest and pulling out a bright #4 for a value study portrait. I used caput mortuum and some titanium white to create three values on the palette, although I didn’t use much of the white in the end, because I decided to use the sketchbook paper as the lighter…
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Swatching Gouache
I’m going through a phase of being a bit reticent about sharing things I’ve been working on. I’m usually not that bothered, and so this is an interesting phase to work through, and ponder what is going on. I found that when I was doing the 100 Day Project (which I stopped after 55 oil…
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