2 hr pencil portrait
Also lovely that the model specifically asked me to tag him 🥲 validations?
So thrilled that I got into this art society today, not thrilled I end up cancelling plans I wanted 🫠
There were some lovely paintings at the Mall Galleries tonight, this one stood out to me interestingly 😗
London is wonderful in all the ways, life is short, do all the things, say the words. 🥲🇬🇧✨
RE: https://mastodon.art/@jlam/116110088288452077
Session #2
Total 6 hours but that’s hardly enough 😮💨
Love that I already found actually long pose here in London 🥳
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Feeling like i can art again now that I’m outside the burning furnace of 🇺🇸
Trying out some long poses sessions here 🇬🇧 but when you are used to 4 hrs x 1week long poses and they are calling 20min “long” and you’re like lolll stop rushing me 😮💨 oops on the long neck. Great model tho
Charcoal is always challenging 🥲
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+ highlight
What’s left:
- the tab at the top
- fix the left rim
- missing characters on the bottom half
- better cast shadows on the very edge of the can on the left
- better drapery(?)
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Probably one of the more technically challenging pieces I’ve done 😵💫 f’in letters ffs
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Maybe 60%?
There’s a reason why John Singer Sargent works large, these tiny facial features are hard 😆 Note to self, life sized or gtfo… also fine grained canvas and not my landscape roll 🫠
Whenever people graduate from traditional atelier they do a self portrait, so here’s mine 🙂 (soon, on my own terms, in my own time, finding myself)
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The interesting thing about painting, often time with value compression, you don’t make something look darker by adding more dark colors, you make its surrounding lighter. But when to do what is what makes a master, a master… (which I am not yet unfortunately 🥲)
More work in progress shots
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Some progress…
I can see it now… that left eye is gonna take me 2 weeks 🥲
Maybe that’s a sign of growth where i can actually see how much more work there is left to do?
Close up: ok yeah i need to paint bigger 😅
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jlam