Tag: sponge brush painting
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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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Sponge Brush Portrait
I’m still playing with this reference from Unsplash that I like, and today I was playing with one of the paint colours I mixed the other day and a sponge brush. I’m really enjoying the sponge brushes just now. I also spent a lot of time trying to organise collage fodder, gel prints, and all…
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Recycled Stars and Inky Drips
I have been busy in my studio today doing lots of different fun things, and one of the fun things I got up to was recycling some pages from an old journal to turn them into collage fodder. I checked the pages first to see if there were any amazing insights, or delicious memories, but…
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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…