More sketchbook acrylic paintings.
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40 minutes in the book
I started this one with the intention of making it out for another day.
Sketchbook, acrylic A4
Working quickly on this one. Immediately got the eomoetry right with little trouble.
Acrylic in A4 sketchbook: 4 pages.
There is a distortion here but I rather like it. 
I suspect this needs a few more layers. 
Because I like plaits. 
Now it’s uploaded, I can see what’s wrong here.
All are acrylic on A4 pages in multiple layers. The method is generally the same – prepare the page with a mid-tone ground; 2 sessions; work from mid-tones towards light & dark, last marks are black and pure white (often just a dot).
Line in the Sand.
22°C, sunny.
Summer sketchbook, profile.
Short hot spell, 31°C,
Final version. Sorted the ear out and worked in with pthalo blue, including hair highlights.
My first oil painting for ten years
A few days off…
Rain
No cycling because of low energy caused by a quiet cold.
Biro drawing again.
Heavy rain and not warm any more.
I’m struggling with re-learning old tricks. A few drawings have eye-line faults and some skew. It’s coming back though.
I’m the rusty one.
17°C, bright, warm and sunny.
Drawing while I wait for a visitor. Boy, do I feel rusty. That feeling of edge-of-the-seat fear that it will come out badly drives you on.
I need to do this more often.
