Tag: sketchbook
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Quick Poses
Very much enjoying setting my timer for very quick poses this week. This one is worked with an Artgraf tailor’s shape water-soluble crayon and charcoal. Til the morn, Suzanne 817/900
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Fast Charcoal
Today’s share is from the current A3 figure drawing sketchbook. My reaction to figure pose images is interesting, as I find none of the poses as interesting as the ones from Dinoopis, but the bodies themselves are just as fascinating. I definitely need a certain attitude in the model, though. This was a ten minute…
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Angles and Curves
Today’s share is a first go at this fun pose in my A3 sketchbook. I used a stick of compressed charcoal that had somehow gained a coat of gesso. I don’t know. Turns out scratching legs and feet cleans a dirty crayon. Don’t mind me while I keep one eye on the train wreck that…
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Always Find Time
I had almost no time today for painting due to other commitments, which is quite unusual, but I managed a twenty minute session with my sketchbook, so all is not lost. Til the morn, Suzanne 814/900
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Sketching Day
Today’s share is my daily page in my A3 sketchbook. I was in the mood for sketching today, rather than full painting. Our election result finally tallied after 1am, and the last result was needed to define who came second, and is therefore effectively the opposition. For the first time in the life of the…
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Counting Fingers and Toes (and seats)
I have managed to work for a bit today, working on a 100 Day Project canvas, and also in my A3 sketchbook, and this is despite being glued to the election results coming in. It’s been a more interesting day that expected with some nice upsets. I’m talking in terms of Scotland. All sorts of…
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Purdah
Today’s sketchbook practice. It’s election day here in Scotland, and also in Wales, and some parts of England are voting in local council elections, so today marks the last day of purdah. I find it interesting the word for the pre-election period, and the tradition of political neutrality from the civil service and other bodies,…
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Floccing Success
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook. I was using up paint on the palette after spending some time in a different sketchbook working on some ideas. I used a big shitty brush and gestural movements, and I like how this one came together. Flocculation update: it worked 🙂 I need to rethink my receptacles,…
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Flocculation
Up until now I have been using the cat litter method for acrylic paint water disposal, but I did a bit more research into the flocculation method, and discovered that it can be done with aluminium sulphate and garden lime, so this week I’m experimenting with the process to see if my scoops are the…
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Teasing Shapes
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook where I started with a quite dark ground and then teased the figure out with the light value magenta paint. There’s always a way to flip the rules. Til the morn, Suzanne 802/900
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Two Sizes and Ratios
The difference between large and small. It’s much easier to fit the figure on the page, and that challenge is part of the fascination of doing these tiny boards. They take a bit longer to get right. This one isn’t right, yet, it will come. It’s funny the way the warm-up sketch sometimes is the…
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800 Days of Art
I do love these milestones, especially as someone who has a tendency to squirrel off the track and do side quests, and leave behind special interests, and then be accused of never making anything of anything blah, blah, and indeed, blah. The great thing about my commitment to daily art is the freedom, there’s no…
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