Day 102! Pete The name is Peter Bond. In my head that was funny. Maybe not.
There are 4 more portraits done and all of the sketches for the other three.
Quin rose, quin burnt sienna, ultramarine all the usual skin colors. Quin rose. Cobalt shadows
Hair cerulean and andrews turquoise w burnt sienna to make greys.
Shirt cerulean and cobalt. Striped done w a splayed chinese brush.
Ultramarine and yellow ochre background with dabs of burnt sienna.
9×12” superaquabee sketchbook. Thanks, Judith @jyportraitchallenge and Pete @peterlockhartPeteThea Day 105! Thea. 1 of the 7 I speed drew Friday and painted four of them.
Quin rose, quin burnt sienna, ultramarine all the usual skin colors. Quin rose. Cobalt shadows
Hair cerulean and andrews turquoise w burnt sienna to make greys.
Her awesome top is ivory black, burnt umber, raw sienna, and ultramarine splatted on w an 8 kolinsky sable round.
Andrews turquoise and yellow ochre background with dabs of burnt sienna. Seems to be my fav background lately.
9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
Thanks, Judith @jyportraitchallenge and Thea @theadebruin
@Pencils4tea tomorrow on instagram 1 pm EST Live from Dundee Scotland on zoom last week. Fun zany poses with crazy hats or objects a frequent challenge on this zoom portrait hour. Alice @alicesulsul Day 97. Three more to go. Trying to catch up. Eeekk. All about the curly hair and the drips.The photo The sketchFirst layers. Loving the drips. Burnt umber ultramarine and mineral violet for the hair w added dabs of cheap joes andrews turquoise. Quin gold and quin pink. Cerulean mineral violet and turquoise shadows. Clothes are the same colors plus holbein terre vert a Charles Reid favorite.Layer 2. Shes showing up. Coming into focus
9×12” superaquabee sketchbook which was driving me a little nuts. It waffles badly when it gets too many wet layers. Then it would run into the face. Eekk. What happens when u soak 90 lb paper. Oh well.
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge and Alice @alicesulsu
Getting there but hair a little boring. Time to add some andrews turquoise.
Found these fascinating British artists who draw and are using fabric. Great youtube videos. This one does portraits on fabric. Cant wait to watch it. As soon as I post i am.
Chloe 6 min. Hurrah. We had lots of time. Hmm just noticed has three fingers. Oops
Almost forgot to post. Another zippy hour. 150 attendees across the world.
Of course we are all at loose ends since our fearless leader Chloe is going on hiatus for August vacation. Such a French thing to do.
Janice. 4:26 min I was sad the top of her head did not make out screen. Such a great challenging pose. At least I got all her fingers lol.
Thanks for all the fun Chloe and our 12 models.
Terry 2 min 26 sec. A sweet quiet pose. Michelle. 3:14 min. That hair!! Loved it. I admit i did a screen shot so i could finish her great shirt Hank 4:17 min A tough draw for this zany pose. One eye shit and his mouth twisted. We marveled he held the pose so well. Friends 5:40 min These should be called double trouble. Tough to get it done in the time allotted but I did. I did paint the windows in later. Also tough taking a photo of it. The cobalt blue on the right face kept reading very dark and its not. Shanna 3:59 min. I know odd length of time. But its only the length of whatever song is playing. Another sweet quiet pose. And her wrap not enough time to do its bright colors justice.
Watercolor splattered on with a 1” flat and 3/8 Saber brush over my cheap general charcoal pencil quin burnt orange, quin rose, manganese and ultramarine, burnt umber
My sweet friend Mike Gant my cohort and travel buddy in our watercolor journey. 5:40 min Bytw her chin is pink NOT brownish as in the photo. Curse my iphone. Katherine ? Min A lovely interesting pose. Love the flip on her hair. Chloe again 2.39 min Her Sinead tribute. I dont know why I gave her a rose colored dress. She had on a dark figured dress. Victoria 4 min One of my favs. She had a great sweater on the exact color of my Cheap Joes Andrews Turquoise. Win!! Lovely grey and black softly curling hair. Rachel 4 min Another fav of mine. Great interesting short hair going grey. Glasses and interest clothes. I was hitting my stride to draw and paint all that in FOUR min. Lou 3 min. And zip we were done.
Chloe 6 min. Hurrah. We had lots of time. Hmm just noticed has three fingers. Oops
Almost forgot to post. Another zippy hour. 150 attendees across the world.
Of course we are all at loose ends since our fearless leader Chloe is going on hiatus for August vacation. Such a French thing to do.
Janice. 4:26 min I was sad the top of her head did not make out screen. Such a great challenging pose. At least I got all her fingers lol.
Thanks for all the fun Chloe and our 12 models.
Terry 2 min 26 sec. A sweet quiet pose. Michelle. 3:14 min. That hair!! Loved it. I admit i did a screen shot so i could finish her great shirt Hank 4:17 min A tough draw for this zany pose. One eye shit and his mouth twisted. We marveled he held the pose so well. Friends 5:40 min These should be called double trouble. Tough to get it done in the time allotted but I did. I did paint the windows in later. Also tough taking a photo of it. The cobalt blue on the right face kept reading very dark and its not. Shanna 3:59 min. I know odd length of time. But its only the length of whatever song is playing. Another sweet quiet pose. And her wrap not enough time to do its bright colors justice.
Watercolor splattered on with a 1” flat and 3/8 Saber brush over my cheap general charcoal pencil quin burnt orange, quin rose, manganese and ultramarine, burnt umber
My sweet friend Mike Gant my cohort and travel buddy in our watercolor journey. 5:40 min Bytw her chin is pink NOT brownish as in the photo. Curse my iphone. Katherine ? Min A lovely interesting pose. Love the flip on her hair. Chloe again 2.39 min Her Sinead tribute. I dont know why I gave her a rose colored dress. She had on a dark figured dress. Victoria 4 min One of my favs. She had a great sweater on the exact color of my Cheap Joes Andrews Turquoise. Win!! Lovely grey and black softly curling hair. Rachel 4 min Another fav of mine. Great interesting short hair going grey. Glasses and interest clothes. I was hitting my stride to draw and paint all that in FOUR min. Lou 3 min. And zip we were done. Weird cloud out back last nite. Margaret xoxoxo
Drawingisfree_org today. 16 portraits in an hour. OH MY. not what someone who doesnt feel well should be doing but then I lade a video of them. U can see lore at my ig feed. @maggieinsc. Chloe our drawing mc did poses mostly lasting less than three minutes. Even the double was three minutes 40. Oh MY. They are usually closer to six. Quite the challenge today. And yes i would do it again!! Lol. Cant wait for next week. Sick woman here in more ways than one. Hahaha.
Day 86! #jyportraitchallenge @sylvester.lifedrawing!! Loved the picture. Couldnt wait to paint him. Did not turn out the way imagined. What happens when u paint when u don’t feel well. Oh well.
The photo The sketch – 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
Lots of burnt umber and ultramarine. It will go quite dark. A bit of cobalt blue. Cerulean blue background. Ivory black for hair and bird w a dab of quin burnt orange.
Thought it was done but too light. 🧐Too blue. 😵💫Better. Had to add to the back of his head and his neck.
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge and @sylvester.lifedrawing!!
I dreamed of a Charles Reid style painting with burnt umber and ultramarine mingling to a lovely dark brown but nope was not to be. beyond me even when i feel well oh well onward and more coughing!!
Yesterday’s @pencils4tea fast sketches. 13 in an hour. So much fun. Can’t wait til mondays @drawing_is_free.org session. Charcoal pencil and watercolor in my superaquabee.
Charcoal pencil and watercolor 4 min
As always the hour flew by @pencils4tea
We memorialized Lesleys freshly broken arm. Ouch
Thanks Kirsty & Jane, it was fun! Live from Engand i think?! Always fun and challenging.
That camera pose oh my! And in three minutes no less. 😵💫😂
Live every Th @1 pm EST on Zoom. Free event!! 2-5 minute poses set to music. Lasts abt an hour. Time just flies during the hour.
Loved Mollys pose but I might have to titivate it. Aka make small changed. Hate the smear of quin rose on her cheek. Four minutes for this. Seriously?! Great pose. Loved her expression.
Really like the Generals charcoal pencil drawing w a shot of watercolors over it.
Liz always turns out so well. Five minutes was too long. Had to squelch my urge go titivate this one. Those hands! 😵
Used only two brushes a 1 1/2” flat cheap joes golden taklon and a 3/8” dagger striper from masters touch.
Sweet pose and yes sometimes u get cauliflowers. Oh well right?
Some of my fav artists like Don Andrews and Skip Lawrence tend to use alot of flats and oh my gosh they are fast and do the job well. Maggies hair was done in 1 swoosh of the1 1/2” flat.
Jane. I think a formidable woman. Not that I have ever met her. Shes in England somewhere.
DS quin burnt orange and quin rose, Cheap joes andrews Turquoise, cj yellow ochre, cj burnt umber, cj cerulean, cj cobalt , cj alizarin, and cj hookers green, Lukas Cad Yellow, m graham cobalt and ultramarine watercolors, 5×8” superaquabee sketchbook
Hmm oh well they cant all be perfect right?! Her overalls could use a swoosh of black.
I do love the mix of DS quin burnt orange and with a dab of quin rose for the skin tones. Works on the very pale or people of color like Liz. Add alot of water and u get a light skin tone like on the right of Mikalas face.
Sarah. A quiet pose. Umm what was i thinking. The last time I used that aureolin yellow and manganese. They turned ugly quickly. Marnie hiding behind her lilly. She really could use some titivating. Lol. Out back this am. Fog grows and grows. Then poof its gone.
Maggie in SC xoxoxox Cant wait for Mondays session of drawing_is_free.org 1 hr of sketching excitement on zoom.
Day 47 of the #jyportraitchallenge.Another watercolor I like. Getting to be a pattern. Hurrah!! She actually said she was done today.
Arches cold press 9×12”
Forgot to take process pics again. Too busy painting. Sorry!!
The photo
Quin scarlet and azo orange w dabs of the purple color background (why not spread the joy around?!) used for her hair otherwise Mary Whytes palette colors.
The pencil sketch Always a relief when the model shows up on the paper.
The purple on the background is a combo of ultramarine and perylene maroon a lovely combo. Painted w a Mary Whyte fav a cats paw, #10 Charles Reid kolinsky sable (both brushes at Cityart in Columbia, SC @cityartsc ) and 1/2” Robert Simons synthetic flat, arches 140 cp 9×12”.
Trinidad Day 441/4 sheet cp fluid. Mixed media #jyportraitchallenge on ig
My friend Ruth and I keep each other going. You can see her posts @britpeach on ig. When one flags the other says where’s your post today?!Our #jyportraitchallenge photo from IG. Judith Yaws is an Asheville NC area based artist who holds lifemodeling zoom sessions several times a month. Her models are world class and have kindly donated their photos to Judith for the challenge. Almost forgot to take pics. The beginning. Something is off. Omg and i can not lift on this piece of fluid. That’s a pickle to say the least. Her mouth is far too low which means everything from there down is too low!! 😵😵😵Trying to lift/move that mouth and getting into big trouble because quin pink is staining. And whats with the cross eyes?! For better or worse i moved it. The paper really was terrible. There were dots all over below her nose on her chin like there was no sizing on it. Did i say this was the back of the cp fluid 140?! Luckily she had a heavy shadow under her lip which helped disguise that I loved her mouth. Well i hope it did.
I added a lot of white gouache to her top w a 1/2” flat to give it texture. Lots of fun. Think i may need to do some acrylics again.
Anyway here she is done as she will get. Off the back deck this am. Gorgeous day on River Bend. Margaret xoxoxoxo
Trying to loosen up some. Posting the process of this drawing. Day 5 done. #jyportraitchallenge! @mychorrhizal_arts #stillmanandbirnalpha #prismacolorartstix #portrait #portraitchallenge #portrait #dailydrawingprompts #peoplesketching #sketchingideas #challenge When u arent invested in the subject its a good chance to loosen up. Hmm. As i said not invested and hanging loose. Almost done. Really should fix the ribbing on this sweater but why?! Rather play with the beard and udon’t want to spend too much time on this sketch. Calling him done at least for the moment. prismacolor art stixs faber Castell watercolor pencils and 1 white prismacolor pencil. Where oh were are they ?! Stillmanandbirn alpha 8×10” Worked on her some more trying to get rid of the yellow. Used a prismacolor pastel stick on her teeth. How dod i not notice i didn’t center her teeth on her nose. Duh?! The neck is not that dark. Chalking it ip to the stupid iphone. A presie from a friend. Love it. And doesn’t this photo of my grandmother remind you of the sketch of Emily metalksin Will repost it below! Grandmother always did think she was a vamp.
Judith Yaws @judithyaws is doing a 30 day portrait challenge on ig @jyportraitchallenge Shes posting awesome photo references for the challenge. Thought i would join my friend Ruth @britpeach in this challenge.
Day 1 done. 10-15 min drawing. 8×10” stillman and birn alpha w prismacolor artsticks #jyportraitchallenge #portraitchallenge #prismacolorartsticks #stillmanandbirnalpha Thanks @prettywackbeatsDay 2 Done. Did i say i started out three behind?! Hope to be caught up by Saturday. Took too long on this one but she is interesting so fun to do. Hard to maneuver the artsticks which are conte crayon shaped prismacolor pencils no wooden case. No sharp edges on them. Hmmm gotta be a way around that. Thanks!@artzkt83Cant wait to do this one tomorrow. Love her look. Using these prismacolor artstixs. Hard to tell where the flat edge is so that causes problems. Wondering of breaking them into pieces would help?! Might just get out my colored pencils and use them when i need a straight exact line like for the eyes or the edge of the face. Now where did i put my colored pencils. Hmmm.
These are done by drawing the large shapes first then the details. I am bad abt starting with the outline and details then filling it in like a color book so trying to change. If Mary Whyte can draw the big shapes first so can i?!
Peaches visiting at our house with our sister in law. Sweet puppy but big feet. You know what that means?!
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 