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Currently exploring bird paintings & portraits in various media.

Michaela Majce

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Figuary, Day 22. Pencil B and Derwent Graphitint c

Figuary, Day 22. Pencil B and Derwent Graphitint colors today.

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Figuary, Day 21. Three weeks of daily figure drawi

Figuary, Day 21. Three weeks of daily figure drawing, whew! And a male model for a change. 😁 I thought they'd switch more often. 😉

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So, after my warm-up blind contour drawing of the

So, after my warm-up blind contour drawing of the lovely Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan, I got down to doing some "proper" painting. First I just wanted to do a pencil drawing, but after the blind sketch I decided to go for pastels and color pencils to finish it off instead. Bought some beautiful blue toned paper from Rembrandt yesterday and thought that might be perfect for the task. Put some abstract pink blossoms in the background to make up for the first sketch, as Nicola said she'd loves pink and flowers. 😉 Overall I'm quite happy with it. What a lovely way to spend a Sunday! Painting and listening to an intersting conversation between sitter Nicola and artist Alastair Faulkner. 😊 So grateful Portrait Artist of the Week is back.

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PAOTW is back. Yeah! 💕😊 Today's sitter is th

PAOTW is back. Yeah! 💕😊 Today's sitter is the lovely Nicola Coughlan, playing in Bridgerton. Just for the fun of it I started with a quick blind contour sketch. And no, fortunately she doesn't look anything like that. I didn't peak at all! Which is also why I forgot about the hair and left brow. 😂 Forgive me, Nicola! 🙂 Now onto a proper portrait.

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Figuary, Day 20. All caught up, yeah! 😊 Wasn't

Figuary, Day 20. All caught up, yeah! 😊 Wasn't really a fan of today's poses. To much cloth on the model. Drawing folds is not really something I wanted to spend time on. 😂

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Figuary, Day 19. Did all of these today. It was a

Figuary, Day 19. Did all of these today. It was a day of ultra short poses and I tried my best to stick to the given time frame. Did it twice. And I chose two poses I did without time limit cause I wanted to try something with acrylic color in the background. Not quite what I wanted it to be, but ok. 🙂 Color came first btw., applied with a pretty broad flat brush.

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Figuary, Day 18. Started with some charcoal sketch

Figuary, Day 18. Started with some charcoal sketches on the 18th, but only finished today, with a graphite pencil.

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Was watching Perseverance land on Mars tonight. :-

Was watching Perseverance land on Mars tonight. 🙂 Cool thing. Wonder if she'll find signs of ancient life there.

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Figuary, Day 17. These poses deserve more time tha

Figuary, Day 17. These poses deserve more time than I've given them today. 🙂 Might revisit them at some other time. 😉

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Figurary, Day 16. Today I used brush and color fir

Figurary, Day 16. Today I used brush and color first. With some of the poses I tried to be more detailed with the watercolor sketch already, with some I just put approximate shapes down. Then finetuned a bit and in the end either used my fountainpen for outlines, or the ArtGraf soft carbon pencil and added some more water - as this one is watersoluble. The first one (which I put last in this post) started out with Tombow brushmarkers. I like it the least, that's why it's in the very back. 😉 Not caring about timings at all today, just tried to have fun and experiment a bit. 🙂

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Figuary, Day 15. Been tired yesterday. Almost skip

Figuary, Day 15. Been tired yesterday. Almost skipped it. Thought, ok, let's do at least one pose, so you can say you're drawing a little bit every day at least. But as it went on I got more into it again. Not my best day though. 🙂

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Figuary, Day 14. Halftime. 🙂 Didn't really feel

Figuary, Day 14. Halftime. 🙂 Didn't really feel it yesterday. Maybe it was because it's been late already. Those accessory things, a phone yesterday, also don't make me happy. Might have been why I liked the last pose without that stupid prop best. 😉 Tried to keep up with the time limit in the first 2 poses, ehm yes. 😉 And switched to blind contour after a while. Did more of those than I'm posting now. So, yeah, l hope today's going to be better again. 🙂

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Didn't get round to do the last of @carlajart's Bi

Didn't get round to do the last of @carlajart's Bird Artist of the Week challenges last week. Still I wanted to do it, a Barn Owl after a reference pic by @sas_evers. Too late to take part in the competition, but still. 😉 It's been a great challenge, thanks so much again Carla! 😘 So much inspiration by all the amazing fellow artists. 🙂

So, this one was done with alcohol inks on stone paper again. I used markers and drip bottles, a brush and a lens cleanser. to blow the ink around 😉

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Figuary, Day 13. Again I did not care about the ti

Figuary, Day 13. Again I did not care about the time limits. Think I took between 10 and 20 minutes for each one. Pentel pocket brush pen, watercolors, a highly water soluble Tombow pen (#fudenosuke), fountain pen with extra fine nib and watercolors - those were the materials I used on the various sketches today. 🙂

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Figuary, Day 12. Didn't get all the poses of day 1

Figuary, Day 12. Didn't get all the poses of day 12 done on the 12th (only 2), so I continued yesterday. 🙂 I stopped the video with each pose and took the time I needed. I decided that all the hush, hush, didn't really teach me to see, that's why. As it was weekend and I had the time, I also did one sheet with the 3 one-minute poses in the given time frame. And some blind contour drawings. 😉 As for the materials, I used a fountain pen with extra fine nib, watercolors, a watercolor stick, water soluble pencils, water soluble chalk, and a normal pencil for the blind contours.

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The second pastel painting I found in that sketchp

The second pastel painting I found in that sketchpad was done in A4, on a thicker type of paper, toned one. I drew that after some photo in a magazine I found inspiring. Unfortunately no idea anymore which one it was to give credits to the photographer. Pretty sure though, the original photo was much better than my painting. 😉 Still happy I found it again. 🙂

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I keep my artmaterials in several spots in my appa

I keep my artmaterials in several spots in my appartment. When I was going to look for my Tombow markers today, I also noticed I had quite a few old sketch pads I haven't used in ages, cause of the thinner paper quality. Thought they might come in handy for Figuary and dug them out. In one of them I found 2 old pastel painting I already thought I'd lost. 🙂 One is of panda baby Fu Long, which was born in the Viennese zoo in 2007. I did those paintings during a summer workshop for pastel painting, so it must be from 2008. A3 size, cheapo sketch pad from the supermarket with expensive Rembrandt pastels on top. 😉

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Figuary, Day 11. Wasn't really into it today. I to

Figuary, Day 11. Wasn't really into it today. I took more time and paused every pose and still struggled. I do like the one I colored with ink though. 🙂

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Figuary, Day 10 had 180° turned poses, interestin

Figuary, Day 10 had 180° turned poses, interesting to see it all from the other side too. 🙂

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Figuary, Day 9. Bit behind in posting, but not in

Figuary, Day 9. Bit behind in posting, but not in drawing. That day had some ultrashort poses, 15 seconds! 😳

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