Tag: Skills
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The Duck – Plein Air #3
Each new plein-air oil upto this one is progressing at a rapid rate, although I cannot promise to keep it up (in fact the next one kind of breaks the run, but I’ve not finished it so it might get better). This was an experiment in Liquin Impasto, which as well as an impasto medium…
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Our House in the Middle of Our…
It got too late to travel anywhere one day last week and I decided to take a chair out into the street and draw and paint where I live…this caused quite a lot of interest from passers-by. It’s a good way to meet people! The piece below I did last, ‘Our house, in the middle…
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From the Bench: 2nd Plein Air Oil
What I find interesting about this blog is that it documents the progression – good or bad – in my work. In something new to me lilke oils this is very starkly apparent. I am usually improving on every work as I get used to the medium. Initially I thought this was a step backwards…
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My First Self Portrait in Oils
When the weather isn’t good enough for painting dead trees I have been experimenting with a medium I did once in my ‘A’ level then never touched again – oil painting. I need to be able to work all year round, and maybe get commissions so oil painting is a massive scary new frontier for…
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Life Drawing #34
Slim pickings this week, for a couple of reasons my mind was elsewhere. A couple of nice pieces – the 5 minute Markal drawing of course is one of the best as usual, and a longer piece below, mixed media. After this week and the last I decided to go back to basics and work…
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Life drawing #15
Week 15 was a funny sort of session – because for the first time ever, the model didn’t turn up! So Robin who runs the session posed clothed for a while. I was in my element since I originally learned to draw people clothed during G.C.S.E and A level, I actually find nudes harder. After…
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