Tag: sketching
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Fingers and Toes Again
I have run out of pyrrole red, but there’s more en-route 😉 I did have enough for this painting in my A3 sketchbook. I did a few other bits and pieces today, but this is my favourite. I’ve painted a version of this pose previously in a more muted palette. Til the morn, Suzanne 618/700
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Get It On Paper
The clocks changed overnight, and we reverted to GMT for the winter, and I am discombobulated, naturally. I had an idea, and this sketchbook page is the start of working out the idea. It’s definitely not a finished and resolved page, it’s just scratching an idea onto a page for later – what sketchbooks are…
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Inverness Trip to See Ken Currie: The Crossing An / Turas
We were up long before the crack of dawn for a day trip to Inverness, which is a long day, but, it turns out, entirely do-able. The reason for the day trip was to see an exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Ken Currie: The Crossing / An Turas. We set off for the…
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Very Handy
I was hoping to get a longer painting session in today as I am dogsitting, but the angle I’m at sitting at a dining table painting is irritating whatever is niggling in my shoulder, so I decided to call it a day after the basic blocking in was done. Perhaps all the ball launching for…
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Budget Paint Swatch Sketch
I didn’t have much time today, as most of the day was taken up visiting the best dog park ever, followed by accumulating an art haul in two different shops. I bought some canvases, brushes, a gold ink that’s supposed to be the most gold ink you can get, a few brushes and a variety…
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Wonky Dog
Sketchbook play doing studies of the wonky dog lurcher I’m staying with. The spread is quick studies from action photos taken at the dog park. The hill at the top is Bennachie, which is the mother mountain backdrop at the dog park, and a landscape knitted into my soul. The next page is one the…
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Warm-up Sketch
A quick portrait sketch today as I’m a bit tired after a 5am start. I did have my sketching kit accessible during my train station layover, but it was black as pitch, so this is all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 605/700
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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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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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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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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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Photos and Street Sketch
A wee collage of photos from my day. We left the house at 5:40am and four different trains took us all the way to Thurso, with a couple of hours in Inverness to visit Leakey’s. I’m absolutely knackered, and the only art I have managed to do was a very quick sketch of some lovely…
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