Tag: sketchbook
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100 Day Project Day 1
Today was very odd. Yesterday I was fired up and excited about starting the new 100 Day Project, and then today I was feeling very blocked. No, not blocked, tight. I know why – I am used to sharing my art here, and I’m comfortable with that, but this project also has the social media…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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Closed Eyes Pouting
I rocked the day today. I am trying out a new app that is recommended for overcoming neurospicy Things. It’s called Habitica, and I am liking it a lot. Of course it’s a very neurospicy thing to start a new Thing and rock the first day or even ten, so I’ll see how it goes.…
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Mixing Blacks
When I am painting I really try to focus on value, and I have mentioned before different ways of analysing values as I am working. My favourite way is using my small rectangle of red perspex to view my painting as I am working. It’s simple, and instant. Once I started focusing on values, and…
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Painting Tools and Collage Fodder
I ended up with only a short amount of time for art today, and I decided I wanted to give my portrait a rest, and have some space from it, before going in to hopefully finish. Instead I did some simple play in my old sketchbook, not really trying to create anything, just moving paint…
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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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Odd Day Old Sketchbook New Paper
I am still looking at this sketchbook absolutely willing it to be finished, it’s been a looooong time. Another page filled, tho. This was a non-dominant hand contour drawing with no reference, painted using my colour mix. I hated the whole thing, then dry-brushed a bit of white gesso over the top, redid some of…
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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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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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