Tag: Art

Inspired by exaggerating skin features

Behind the Scenes

My art classes for drawing and painting ended last week and inspired a new focus in my portrait paintings.

I noticed the extent to which I’m interested in the deeper anatomical elements of the skin. For instance, I noticed I spent a lot more time than others in the class on the intricate details of features such as thread veins and fine lines.

While mixing the different colour skin tones, I got the idea of potentially using my cosmetic chemistry insights and knowledge to develop a series of figurative paintings in future. I will link back to this post when I have done the paintings influenced by insights I gained this week.

Initial Ideas: One

Behind the Scenes

I’m creating a collection of small finely painted works that contain expressions of the alphabet.

Here are the first 10. Further blogs will have letters J through to Z.

These delightful small oblong paintings with initials might make lovely gifts for those wanting monograms in art. Or these are great for people WFH and they want their initials for their surname displayed on their bookshelf.

Video post: Experimenting with textures and colour grounds

Behind the Scenes

This week I upgraded to allow video posts. Here you can see what I painted this week and listen to my voice as I talk through my art pieces.

Neon Acrylic and impasto on paper

Below is an example of rougher textures. I like the juxtaposition of rough or matt against smooth and glossy to show contrast and tension.

Mixed media sand in acrylic and gel gloss on paper

Colour scales & tone

Art & Illustration

I got painting in colour this week. The still life got me to experiment with light and shadows.

She said it is a lovely little painting 🖌️Acrylic still life on paper on warm peach ground

I did the shadows and dark s without using pure black on the page but instead using primary colours to create a neutral. That dark neutral would also create a lovely grey when white was added to it.

Doing my colour wheel 🎡 meant I squeezed in two extra colours to make 14 instead of 12. My orange colour scales show the journey to dark neutral turning into grey.
Developing my colour scales practice

Setting the tone: More than 50 Shades

Behind the Scenes

This week was a difficult week at work as well as with family. Events made me think of mortality and the intended and unintended impressions we might leave on people around us.

Some impressions might linger for decades while others might change more immediately according to the amount of light or shade in our behaviour that is applied.

I noticed how this insight is conveyed with a study of tonal impressions. It changes depending on how much white or black paint is added. There are therefore more than fifty shades of grey as well as any colour possibly

Still life study in tones of black white and grey. Includes dry brushing.
Amazed by different reds and tones from crimsons
Tides of crimson tones