Sketchbook A4
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Looking shocked
More sketchbook acrylic paintings.
40 minutes in the book
I started this one with the intention of making it out for another day.
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).
Summer sketchbook, profile.
Short hot spell, 31°C,
Final version. Sorted the ear out and worked in with pthalo blue, including hair highlights.
A4 Acrylic: Wuthering.
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I may just leave this one as it is. It resides in an A4 sketchbook on prepared paper and only used a No.8 round brush. It’s excellent that brush becauyse it has a very fine tip so I have felt no need to pick up another brush.
The immediacy of acrylic onto paper is refreshing after long weeks of work on oil paintings. I can see faults with those oils but am, frankly, sick of worrying about them.
Acrylic D3: boy
Another couple of hours while listening to Tom Yourke’s Sispiria.
To think I nearly scrapped this two days ago. I went to bed frustrated and disheartened ready to cut the page out of the book in the morning. The next day ( day 2), I washed over it with burnt umber glazes as discussed in a previous post.
Today, with Tom Yorke CDs playing, I get to this stage. It looks better in the sketchbook than in this photo.
There is a lesson to tell the kids at school. They often abandon pictures in the first half feeling a frustration akin to my feelings the other day. I must urge them to persist and show them how to fix rather than scap unfinished artworks.
Spirit of Turpentine 