I’m a bit out of synch with the assignments. -I’ll get back to sketching in a while! I’m trying to get to grips with painting more bodily in right brain, noticing when the moment has passed & having the patience to leave the resultant ‘painting’ to dry & wait for another attempt to coax it into something. First go…

Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting

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March 20, 2025

← I’ve been sick this week so I’m not sure I’ll be able to do all 3 sketches for this week. BUT at least I was able to do the one with “cold” tones. I used as a reference a picture I took of my dad when I visited them in Puerto Rico a while ago. Most of the time I aim for a more realistic style, so I struggled with keeping things simple (keeping a 30 min time limit helped a lot, tho). Plus choosing the right skin tones was sort of difficult too. Felt like his skin ended up being too yellowish for my liking, but I digress. On a positive note, I liked the lines of his shirt. Not doing this for symathy but my husband had a heart attack on Sunday which meant I had no time to do a portrait. I’ve managed to do this portrait of him today. It’s the first time that I’ve used pastels and found it very difficult as the end of a pastel is not as fine as a paintbrush, charcoal or graphite. BUT i loved the experimentation; scraping with a knife, laying colours on top of each other and trying to get depth. Man About The House on Mixed Media Paper →

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