Tag: sketching
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Saturday Extremities
Lots of things were done with paint today, but all of them are in that stage where they don’t really look like much, but I did have a go at this pose which is a bit fun. Til the morn, Suzanne 553/600
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All Fingers And Pose
Cobalt blue and caput mortuum make a satisfying mix for this luscious pose in my continued season of hands studies. Dinoopis is on hiatus at the moment, but she is my favourite muse, and creates the most interesting figure references. This is in my A3 sketchbook, with acrylic sludge as the ground, which I am…
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Thirty Seconds and Counting
For today’s practise I cut some large sheets off a roll of cartridge paper to fit my A2 boards. This practise is one that I really enjoy, but don’t do often enough. Today it was all I did. The basic practise is to choose a figure reference, then set a timer for 30 seconds and…
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Workbook Pages
I saw a conversation in response to a sketchbook tour video recently, and it’s a fairly common type of conversation that I’ve seen numerous times. Of course I now can’t find the post, but as I said, it’s a fairly common thing you see online. The sketchbook in the video was a beautifully executed watercolour…
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Storm, Finally
The heatwave finally broke into a massive thunderstorm that went on for ages. There’s cool air tonight, and I am hoping for a good sleep. Til the morn, Suzanne 544/600
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Sketch Anyway
We’re having another heatwave. I hate it. It’s ridiculous. I did not feel like painting or anything at all, to be honest. It was just too hot, even in the room we do manage to keep cooler. In the end I pulled out the jumbo paint markers and did a couple of hand studies on…
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Handy Live Model
A live model is a luxury, and an entirely different challenge compared to a static reference photo. No matter how brilliant the sitter is, they will move, or the light will move, or the pose they chose will fatigue muscles. It makes the painting choices much more dynamic. It was fun to do, even if…
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Partial Projects
Today we started out with the intention of putting up some narrow shelves to hold in-progress canvases and boards. The idea being that if they are out where I can see them, I remember they exist, and might even work on them. We’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, with it all planned out, there was…
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Expressive Arms
The question of the day was “do I need to order more Turquoise Green?” The answer may yet end up being Yes, but I do have a host of different versions of blue turquoises, and various yellows, so I went with mixing, not ordering. This delicious mix came from Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Cad…
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Hand In My Sketchbook
More fun with hands today. I pulled out a bunch of art supplies that I haven’t used in a while, and mixed things up a bit. There’s a chinagraph pencil, a gel pen, woodies, sharpies, watercolour pencils, neocolor IIs. Playing a lot with the supplies, and using swirly gestural marks, and having fun being loose.…
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Hold Your Hand Still
Continuing with the theme of hands in my extremely inexpensive A3 sketchbook, I am mixing up the materials a bit. I pulled out a chinagraph pencil, and did some studies with that. I’m not huge on using erasers even if I’m using graphite, but I very much like things like chinagraph pencils, because all your…
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