Tag: sketchbook
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A bit of this and that
I took a photo of some of my recent things that are sitting around the studio room, as it looked kind of interesting together. I edited in a couple of pics of today’s sketchbook spreads as they’re more interesting than my art tables – my studio is not a curated, instagrammable space, and I had…
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Six Hundred Days of Art
Day 600 of the 100 Day Project I started in February 2024 and didn’t expect to get further than the first couple of weeks, a month tops. I still count the days because maintaining this streak works for me as a motivator. Today’s postcards from the studio are multiple, and I love that over six…
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger…
I have gone big. Properly big. I’ve had the A1 paper for a while, but never got around to getting a big board. Until today. As soon as it arrived I abandoned the sketches in my A4 book, grabbed a 3″ brush, and tried painting a giant hare. It’s not the best hare I’ve ever…
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Studio Things and Not Orange
This is on a canvas board, and so far I am mostly happy with it, but I am changing the orange tomorrow, because it’s making me itch. Other things that happened today include opening a box from Jackson’s, yay. There was also the culmination-ish of a palette experiment, a new A4 sketchbook started, and a…
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Sketchbook Filled
I finished a sketchbook today. Woo hoo. I started it in March, so that’s not bad going. I had three spreads, or six pages left, and they are now painted. I played with the “ancient palette” again, and I can tell you that I don’t like it on a dusky pink ground, but that’s precisely…
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Earthy Palettes
I am trying out a couple of different palettes here based on earthy hues. I saw something somewhere about an “ancient palette”, but I can’t find it again, so I’m working off memory and imagination. The portrait on the left is a very limited palette: unbleached titanium, caput mortuum, raw sienna and olive green. The…
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Satisfied Sigh
I’m finally happy with a version of this pose. I think I’ve figured out that she is slightly tilted away on the left side (her right hand) and her hands are not the same distance from the viewer. I used a very limited palette of unbleached titanium, raw umber and French ultramarine for this one,…
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Dusting The Oil Pastels Off
I have a box of oil pastels that I never use. One reason for that is the fact they don’t dry, and up until recently I didn’t have fixative specific to oil pastels. That my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. Most of my oil pastels are the fairly ubiquitous inexpensive ones, with a small…
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Reflecting
Two versions of the same reference. For some reason I did the first one in my A4 sketchbook, even though there’s a hand, so it meets the criteria for my A3 sketchbook. The background was already there, from using up paint at some point, and it worked quite well. The second painting is in the…
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Sponge and Painty
I started today’s practice with a colour mixing exercise, but I was not in the mood for swatching in grids, so I shelved the sketchbook and used the paint for some figure painting. This was painted using sponge brushes, which don’t give you much space for perfectionism, and are just lots of fun to use.…
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Charcoal Pastel Gesso
Starting with some warm-up play in a sketchbook on a page that had some acrylic paint from a previous session as a ground, I played with this high-contrast reference and some charcoal powder. Having smudged in some basic shadow areas, I wanted a darker dark, so I mixed the charcoal powder with clear gesso, and…
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Repeat Until Satisfied
I’m still obsessed with this hand and foot pose, and I’m really enjoying the process. Somewhere in between yesterday’s painting (r) and today’s is where I want to end up. I do like the black I mixed today, I’m going to play with that more tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 587/600
Thrummie Bizzum 