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  • January 14, 2022 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2085764
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 71 – Oh my goodness, I’ve tried about 6 block-ins tonight and they are all just awful, so I tried some loomis heads and none of those are fit to post either – I’m just tired and not on it at all – so I dug out my soft pastels and did a couple of eyes – I just needed to get my pencils out of my hands as they were just not working for me tonight…

    Eyes

    January 13, 2022 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2084583
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 70. Only had an hour tonight so was rushing and again totally lost the gesture in this one – this is something I really need to sort out! Hey ho… tomorrow is another day…

    Male Face

    January 12, 2022 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2083489
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 69 – well I went out of my comfort zone again and tried to render this in with charcoal and blending stumps and I don’t like how it turned out really – just too smudgy…  I kept the likeness a bit, but got lost thinking about my shading and stumping, but I also think I have lost the tilt on the head which I like so much in the original… think I might try this again and try to enhance the gesture…

    Matthew Beard - charcoal

    January 12, 2022 at 12:06 am in reply to: Jac’s 100 days of landscape #2082863
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Hi Jac,

    I love the way you analyse things, a beginner like me can learn a lot by reading your thoughts… You could turn all this into a blog… I think a lot of people would benefit… Jo.

    January 11, 2022 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2081309
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 68 – quite pleased with this block in of Matthew Beard –  I find it so hard to commit to the tilt, but I think I have captured some of it – will give this some more work tomorrow

    Matthew Beard

    January 10, 2022 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2075425
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 67 – two contrasting profiles

    Two profiles

    January 9, 2022 at 10:46 am in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2073392
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 66 – Way way outside my comfort zone today – watercolour – I’ve never got on with this medium, but I thought I would give it a bash – pretty awful results, but hey – it looks a bit like a face, and absolutely nothing like Samuel L Jackson 🙂

    Watercolour face

    January 8, 2022 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2069243
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 65 – some mouth studies today

    Mouth studies

    January 7, 2022 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2068227
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 64 – Really busy day today with stuff other than art, so I tried a few head poses taken from a course by Marco Bucci  I have decided I really like the way this chap explains things…

    Three heads

    January 7, 2022 at 11:01 am in reply to: Jac’s 100 days of landscape #2068122
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Great what you can do in an hour!

    January 6, 2022 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2067138
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 63 – I was interested to see if I could make these eyes read with the heavy shadow… think this one needs more work…

    Eyes in shadow

    January 5, 2022 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2065702
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    … Just realised that I’ve got my numbering all wrong – this is Day 62 🙂

    January 5, 2022 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Jac’s 100 days of landscape #2065700
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Hi Jac, you are so right about your jug – I love it – There is something wonderfully liberating about having to post every day regardless of where you have got to – I think I am learning a lot about learning art (as well as about faces) doing this challenge – its good to press “stop” – accept what you have created, and then to move on the next day… as Steve Houston says – we need to make a lot of starts… and before this 100 day challenge, I simply didn’t get that….

    January 5, 2022 at 1:29 pm in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2065690
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Day 64 – Gone for a different medium tonight – Charcoal – I get in such a mess with this – I start out trying to be “painterly” and keep my hand off the paper, but then somewhere along the line when I am deep in thought about the angle of the nose I forget and 5 minutes later I’m covered in it… anyway – here is my charcoal face…

    Charcoal face

    January 5, 2022 at 8:08 am in reply to: Jo’s 100 days above the shoulders #2065288
    Jo SheridanJo Sheridan
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    Hi Jac, thanks for the comments 🙂 – I like this one too… to be honest the main focus of my practice has been to get the facial structure right – I have always struggled to get the eyes small enough to make sense and deep enough into the face to read properly, but I do think I’m making progress here…. the next challenge is mouths – the big struggle for me is getting the angle and width right – if I’m going to rip my paper from rubbing out too much it tends to be around the mouth – onwards and upwards…!

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