Tag Archives: acrylic portrait painting

Art for a Pandemic! Hello Metafilter!

Most recent – this window poster, on poster board. I need to make a stand or something because our window is just a tad too far from the sidewalk and street.

Look, my next poster will be uplifting and shit but this is the first one.

I have been very slowly learning acrylic painting over the past couple years. These most recent three are a good indication of current events and also of learning to paint.

8×10 acrylics on canvas board, March 3, 2020
11″ x 14″ acrylics on canvas, March 10, 2020
12″ x 16″ acrylics in progress, March 11, 2020

Apparently I’ve been on an orange kick. Thanks for visiting!

~Glinn

Acrylic Painting in 2019, Early February

I practiced acrylic painting every day except one in January, and am on track to do the same for February 2019. What I have not done is finished many paintings. But they are getting closer! Virginia Woolf from my last post is the first acrylic painting I can say I am happy with, and is finished. YAY!

This post contains two works in progress – Toni Morrison and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They are coming along pretty nicely. Learning to paint is a long process and often frustrating! But nobody can become a better painter (or musician or dancer or a lot of other stuff) without practice. The trick is just to keep going!

Toni Morrison, 11″ x 14″ Acrylics in progress, www.theslumberingherd.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes (AOC), 18″ x 24″ acrylics on canvas, in progress. www.theslumberingherd.com

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January 2019, Painting in Acrylics

I spent the last week of January on the portraits of two writers, Mary Oliver and Virginia Woolf. The Mary Oliver one is not finished, but the Virginia Woolf may actually be finished. Which is a nice end to January 2019.

January 30, 2019, 8″ x 10″ acrylics on canvas board, Virginia Woolf, www.theslumberingherd.com
January 27, 2019 9″ x 12″ acrylics on canvas in progress, Mary Oliver, www.theslumberingherd.com

I’ve been watching a lot of videos from Yupari Artist on youtube/ . He is mainly an oil painter but I have learned a lot watching him paint portraits, in case you’re interested in that sort of thing.

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