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Michaela Majce

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I've been dead tired, but painting along with Paul

I've been dead tired, but painting along with Paul Kelley @paul_kelley_art in today's @etchr_lab mini workshop made me feel alive again. 😊 Really enjoyed it. I'm already looking forward to the replay cause it's hard to concentrate on both my screen and the sheet of paper in front of me. Thank you so much, Etchr, and Paul Kelley for that perfect start into my birthday. Well, almost, still about half an hour to go. 😉

More on the A4 sized painting: I find architecture an perspective tricky. So, this was challenging, especially with starting out the drawing with a fountain pen and not a pencil and a dozen erasers. 😉 Another challenge today was the limited palette. Apart from the green in the plants, all we used was yellow ochre, alizaron crimson, and cobalt blue.

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Portrait Artist of the Week again, this time with

Portrait Artist of the Week again, this time with BBC journalist Clive Myrie as sitter, painted by artist Kayoon Anderson @kayoon_anderson. While Clive was still chatting with Joan Bakewell, I took a few screenshots to draw from. Well, looking through them I came across some where he'd been talking very lively, gesturing a lot. The blurry multiplied hands in the screenshot fascinated me just as much as the fun, joyful expressions on his face. So I had the "brilliant" idea to make it a double protrait, showing him in motion. 😂 Oh my, somehow they don't even look like the same person, such a shame! If I find time this week I'll try another one, no double portrait this time. 😉 If I don't get round to it, this will have to do for the Friday submission. 😉

I should really draw an bigger paper. This was done on A4, way to small for a double portrait, I can see now where it went wrong, well, the most striking misting at least, that might have led to others as a consequence. The heads are too short. Yep, that's it. Like a Snapchat filter. 😂😂😂

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And finally, Figuary, Day 27. 😉 #figuary21 #fi

And finally, Figuary, Day 27. 😉

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Figuary, Day 26. Did them all today as yesterday w

Figuary, Day 26. Did them all today as yesterday was for catching up with some of the other days. I liked those poses. Might want to revisit this session too some time in March. 🙂

I used various media to do these. From Zhe Royal Talens Brush Pens for the first one, to acrylic inks on the one with black background, watercolors, fountainpen, graphite...

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Figuary, Day 25. Done on the day, but not really f

Figuary, Day 25. Done on the day, but not really feeling it. Just some quick sketches to be done with it.

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Figuary, Day 24. Not doing day 23 in time had kind

Figuary, Day 24. Not doing day 23 in time had kind of thrown me off a bit. Plus, on Wednesday I did that awesome Zoom life drawing session from Artmakessense, so no time for these. At least I got some figure drawing done on the day, and these followed later. 🙂

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Bit behind in posting the Figuary sketches. I had

Bit behind in posting the Figuary sketches. I had started day 23, but didn't have much time and the model and setting were way too beautiful fora 15 minute sketching session. I decided to keep that in mind for later. So, I got back to them later, but those are all ugly 😉 Basically cause I didn't care much for the quick version when I want to do 2 or 3 really nice ones of that session.

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First time that I attended one of the Zoom life dr

First time that I attended one of the Zoom life drawing sessions organized by Artmakessense. So. Much. Fun. And read fun as being on fire, inspired, blown away by our amazing model Adrian Modbod. Those poses - tricky, but fab. Fantastic music playing to sing along to as well. We were muted during the poses - I hope. 🤪 In any case, I loved, loved, loved that session! Pretty happy with the results too, though I might give it another try with the replay and more time. Thank you so much to Adrian, Helen, and Michel for this awesome event. 😘

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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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