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Eros the Ram
Jan 1, 2015
Eros. 20x24, oil on linen. 2015. Firstly, I should be honest and say that I finished painting Eros on New Year's Eve but since I'm unveiling the painting today I'm calling it a 2015 painting. The benefit of this, of course, is that I can convince myself that I'm getting off to a very productiv...
More Work on the Portrait of Grace
Dec 3, 2014
A continuation of a painting started here: http://www.portraitsbysimonbland.com/blog/post/color-study-and-block-in-for-a-portrait-of-grace I started the opaque layer of the portrait with the face because it's the most important part of the portrait and the obvious center of interest. Beginning...
A Thanksgiving Weekend Painting
Dec 1, 2014
Weatherlea Ram. 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2014 I started this painting as a demo for workshop I held over the weekend. Unfortunately I talked for way too long and only had time to do the block in so I had to do most of the painting work today. The focus of the workshop was on the creative process f...
Color Study and Block In for a Portrait of Grace
Nov 20, 2014
This week I started work on a new portrait. Although I had taken about 100 photographs of the dog, Grace, and had several nice ones to choose from I decided that I could best paint her by combining two of the photos together: one was a good view of her head and the other was a good view of her...
Color Design Using a Sub Set of the Palette
Nov 12, 2014
Color chart for secondary and tertiary mixtures of phthalo blue, alizarin permanent, cad orange, cad yellow medium Sometimes when preparing to start a painting I have to put more thought than usual into the selection of colors. I've just started a small figurative painting of a child ...
Chicken Sunday
Nov 6, 2014
Chicken Sunday. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2014 Birds continue to be one of my favorite animals to paint: I feel like I have a chance to paint with strong colors and not fuss about the grays. Most of the painting was done with brushes (background: large bristle, bird: long mongoose flat), but I pain...