Waste no time

He’s a wee drawing I’ve been working slowly on amid many, many other personal projects, including but not limited to: learning how to make lattes, bathing the dog (still haven’t gotten around to it), making DIY decorations for my upcoming wedding, remembering to eat, learning how to make bread and pizza, working on my big commission, and working out.

I’ve been using biro on this sketch pad a lot more, since I got tired of friable media like pencil smudging on my page, and because, like every political and religious group, every now and then I like to get back to basics.

En kop kaffe, tak

While a lot of my time is consumed with my oil commission, I find time in between drying and worrying about drying times and varnishes to paint other things. This is a painting on acrylic paper for my friend Ian’s bistro Bite Me

I’m trying to make it vaguely look as though it were an acrylic version of an aux trois crayons drawing, so I’m using a restricted palette of burnt sienna, ultramarine, alizarin crimson and white.

To create some interesting texture, I first sketched the outlined of the cup in thick white paint, which resists a later wash of Burnt Sienna, and has a little texture to drybrush over if I want.