Day 90 Frank

July 27, 2023Leave a comment

Day 90 Frank

But first. Don’t forget pencils4tea at 1 pm EST. One hour of wild drawing fun. See u there. Well i hope my husbands birthday so off to the grocery store for a few last minute goodies.

The photo
Have long meant to paint Frank but could never slow down long enough to do it. He wasnt in Judiths portrait rotation but just an if u want to paint here he is. I love painting craggy old men w beards.

First layers. Have to stop and remember to take pics. My fav skin tone paint. Daniel Smith Quin burnt orange and quin rose. Ultramarine in the shadows. Beard cerulean, ultramarine and andrews turquoise with bits of ivory black.

Forgot the pics. andrew turquoise in the ceiling. Burnt umber and ultramarine in the eyes w dabs of perlene maroon. Blacks are mixed from ultramarine and burnt umber or quin bunrt orange. Quin burnt orange and burnt umber paneling.

When u think hes done but there are edges to soften and shadows to add.

Then i added the big scary. Ultramarine in the shadows esp on his nose and the ceiling and paneling on the left. Then i declared him done.

I think Frank wanted to be painted. Relatively an easy straight forward paint. i do wish i had used more ultramarine in his shirt. Always looks good in a black shirt.

Drew this last night of my sweet husband w my caran dache neocolor ii.

And this yesterday am. H appy Birthday Dickie.

Have a super day. Margaret off to the races xoxoxoxo

Behind again. Sigh

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Get your pencils sharpened. Don’t forget tomorrow is @drawingisfree _org at noon EST. Click on the zoom link. Cant wait for the fast paced hour of drawing people . We usually draw at least 13 heads. Great practice!

Day 85! #jyportraitchallenge Jill@jilliam58!!Time To Jump back on with the portrait of back pack girl. An outdoorsy woman living her best life.

I thought she was done til i realized her chin was a smidge too long. Made her looks like Nixon or Jay Leno. Oops.

Adding the scary ultramarine shadow on the left. Always looks like a terrible screw up when you do it but add in skin tone, soften the edges and voila you have a great shadow .

Daniel Smith quin burnt orange and m graham quin rose for skin. m graham Burnt umber and ultramarine for hair and blacks. Cheap joes Alizarin bricks. m graham Mineral violet straps. 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.

The photo. Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge @JudithYaws and Jill@jilliam58

Been busy with family visiting. A river cruise this weekend. Everyone had too much fun. Trestle on Little River.

The Big Trestle on the Savannah. Osprey nest in the middle of it.

Margaret putting her feet up. #86 and 87 are done. Stand by dear readers. Xoxoxoxo

Day 57. Well it was sooo Busy

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First I did Drawingisfree_org on IG. 13 Drawings in an hour. Two had TWO people in them😵😵😵. i got so lost in drawing i didn’t realize when time was up. As the last time they got better and better.