Tag: sketching
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Charcoal and Cheek
I set myself several challenges this year, and one of them was to submit a piece in response to every Let’s Face It class. I have sixteen classes that are either partially done, or just in the well-I-watched-the-demo stage. In the spirit of staying current, this week’s class was by Robert Kelley, who is exceptional…
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Paint What (Who) You Love
That’s the advice I keep seeing in this place or that place where people are talking about developing your art. Paint what you love. That’s what I have been doing today, continuing on with the portrait I started yesterday. iykyk Til the morn, Suzanne 267/300
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Complex Angle
I’ve been working on this week’s Let’s Face It class today, and the reference is a deliciously challenging and complex angle. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that I’m a wee bit fond of complex poses, so I’m going with the artist’s choice of reference, but choosing my own colours. Before getting into the…
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Three Brushes Three Sketches
Today I have been working in my sketchbook doing multiple sketches of the same reference photo. I have mostly been using my trusty caput mortuum sketch blend, although I did do one sketch in graphite. This is a Let’s Face It class, and the reference is the artist herself, so I’m setting myself the challenge…
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Golden Ratio
A bit of an odd here’s what I did today photo, but it’s kind of the most coherent page from all the bits and pieces from today. I am piecing together ideas from recent work to put in a painting, so this is just my sketchbook page reference for composition ideas. It’s not very exciting,…
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Resistance Every Day
I show up here every day, even if I only have a teeny tiny piece of art that is the sole creative output of my day. I show up because once I have been here and posted ‘this is what I made today’ I know that I have beaten fitever wur cauin the deil the…
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Crooked Street
Using some of my photographs from last week’s trip to Orkney as references, I did some painting in my sketchbook. I limited my palette to three colours and titanium white – phthalo turquoise, naples yellow red and permanent red violet light. I used one scratchy brush for the undersketch, and then one flat brush for…
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Thursday
We were on trains all day returning home, so it’s another wee sketch of a crooked street, this time I used one of the photos from our trip for reference, but simplified a little, mostly because I’m tired. Normal service resumes tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 222/300
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Wednesday
Today was a day with a LOT. I’m knackered. My mini sketch for the day is inspired by a street in Stromness. I took lots of photos for later, but this was drawn just from memory and imagination. Til the morn, Suzanne 221/300
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Apprehensive
I am preparing for a wee trip that will hopefully double-up as an artist date kind of thing, with some experiences to fill the well, alongside meeting familial obligations. I am avoiding my To Do List, and navigating executive dysfunction like a pro, so the fact I have painted at all is merely an example…
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Quirky Cat
A ten -minute challenge to paint a quirky cat ornament study while limited to chunky scratchy brush and only two colours plus white. Also testing out some inexpensive A3 paper I picked up. It will do a trick, but I’ll buy something different next time. Til the morn, Suzanne 218/300
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Challenging angle
Challenging angles are my brain food. Til the morn, Suzanne 215/300
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