Liz
@lizmtwt
Mostly playing about in sketchbooks. Queensland Australia
Day 8 #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026 Fast and furious sketch today. Colour pencil over acrylic ink. Photo reference Dave Hoefler on Unsplash
Day 7 #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026 Coloured pencils over acrylic and watercolour base. Photo reference Daria K on unsplash.
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge Lytton Stachey by Henry Lamb 1914 I've relegated him to background scenery, sorry Lytton. #oilpainting
Day 6 #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026 I've drawn this alley way before with bananas growing over the back fence. Here it is for 2026, my dogs favourite shortcut.
Day 5 #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026 If I keep doing 3 pages at once the sketchbook won't last the month 🙃 this is in pencil and neocolours over acrylic.
Day 4 #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026 If you ever need 1 million+ second hand books you could stop by Lifeline bookfest held in Brisbane twice a year.
Day 3 #drawingaugust #drawingaugust2026 the outside table of forgotten plants. An orchid, a pineapple, a cactus and a fern.
August 2nd At the risk of showing you every sink in my house here is the kitchen sink and my neighbours garden "spilling in" #DrawingAugust #drawingaugust2026
1st of August Saturday is laundry day for me and its a wet grey day out there. Hope it's sunny wherever you're drawing #drawingaugust2026 #DrawingAugust
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge in oil paint on gessoed paper. Woman in Kimono, by Ryōhei Koiso painted in 1936. I'm liking my group of four ladies. How to fill in around young Jamie on the right I've no idea.
This weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge 'Grande Robe du Soir' by George Barber 1913. My version in oils on paper. #oilpainting #sketch
Just over a week to #drawingaugust or as it is slowly becoming in my head "do everything all at once including all your unfinished projects and challenges august". Concertina sketch book wt pages already prepped or A5 sketchbook with just enough pages to see August out.
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge Rachael Griffin, bronze bust sculpted by Manuel Izquierdo around 1985 Timberline Lodge, Oregon #oilpainting
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond. My version in oil paint on paper. #oilpainting
Some acrylics and pencil sketches. I like working back and forth between a few pages at once. Keeps me away from the details.
My version of this week's Thursday #portraitchallenge oil paint on gessoed paper. #oilpainting #artchallenge Faraway (1952) by Andrew Wyeth
Pencils over brown gesso in the little sketchbook A6. Lazy Sunday efforts while watching football/soccer.
Thursday #portraitchallenge 13 weeks. #oilpainting I like the group of four in the top left. Have prepped a 2nd sheet to go again (but better)
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge. William Orpen's portrait of John Count Mccormack 1923 My final oil sketch in this grouping, squeezed in the back row.
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge #oilpainting The Lady of the Decoration, Harry Clarke 1914. I think I bit off more than I could chew this week.
Bonus! #portraitchallenge My version of 'Ruby' by Thomas Cooper Gotch 1909 #oilpainting
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge Egon Schiele self portrait. #oilpainting. I think he has spooked the dik-dik.
More sketchbook practice. Acrylics and neocolour twos. The A5 sketchbook is filling up so is not lying as flat as it did.
My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge An oil painting titled "Trompe L'Oeil" by Strickland Lowry after 1775. This one tripped me up because I couldn't discard the background. The nail is my favourite bit :)
Acrylics and posca pen sketches in A6 S&B Epsilon. sketchbook, working back and forth letting one side dry a little. Ref in Alt text.
Acrylic and colour pencils in sketchbook A6 Photo refrence Skyler Ewing on Unsplash
More small acrylic sketches. A6 sketchbook. Reference photos from Unsplash users "acuity david" and "fujiphilm"