Tag: timed practise

  • Quatro

    Quatro

    Mini portrait umber four is complete. This is for Week 4 of Let’s Face It with Laurie Johnson. Model & Photographer: Sasha Sears Source: Museum/SKTCHY app I’m in catch-up mode with the classes at the moment, but I’m not stressing about it. I’m painting every day, and that’s what I’m focused on. I really enjoyed…

  • Timed Portrait Exercises

    Timed Portrait Exercises

    The timed sketch to start the day happened again. Since I had prepped some paper for a mini paintings exercise, I decided to use the first reference as my reference for the drawing. I gave myself twenty minutes. The painting is on 12×16″ watercolour paper that has been prepped for oil painting, and divided into…

  • One Hour Portrait

    One Hour Portrait

    Lots of painting and pottering in the studio room today, a very satisfying day. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and set a timer for one hour with the challenge of doing a portrait study in oils. This is not something I have any practise in, but I figure if I can enjoy…

  • Three Hour Portrait

    Three Hour Portrait

    I have been watching old episodes of the Portrait Artist of the Year series, and marvelling at the artists who take part. I decided to see what it’s like to start and finish a portrait in four hours. Obviously I don’t have a live sitter, nor did I have people all around me, and conversations,…

  • Hare Timing

    Hare Timing

    Yesterday I tried setting a timer, and using that to keep me focused on making art and not getting distracted, and it did work, but if I’m being honest with myself, yesterday there was still a lot of faffing. Today I set my timer for one hour, plus five minutes to give myself time to…