Suzanne Russell Art
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Realism and Abstract Tussling in my Brain
I finished this portrait in my A3 portrait practise sketchbook. I started her yesterday, and I wasn’t really liking the way she was going, but I came back to her today and brought her to a conclusion. A Cassandra for our times. No-one will listen to her. When I moved onto the second canvas, which…
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More Hands
Another varied day in my studio thanks to this idea of trying to do art before everything else. I wasn’t quite as disciplined this morning, but I caught myself and got back on track. I made a concertina sketchbook yesterday, and it’s brilliant. I did some fun play in there, and that got the juices…
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Getting Going
A dot for every thing I got done today. Well, maybe not quite, but I almost started with art, and once I got over the resistance and got started, I got loads of things done. It was a varied art day, with lots of things started, and I also got loads of non-art things done…
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Nae Idea
The internet is very much a place where people are expected to know everything, and definitely the “rules” of blogging always include some gubbins about speaking with authority, and I get it, to a certain extent. I have no idea what I’m doing a lot of the time, and I love it. Sometimes, and this…
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Revisiting the Trio
Pulled out the long narrow figure trio again today, amongst other things. This has become an interesting and possibly frustrating challenge. Firstly I didn’t start this as a series, I started it as a single painting. I had no idea I wanted to do a series, i just wanted to see how a figure looked…
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Big Canvas Big Feet
This is the second largest size of canvas I have, and it’s 24×30″. I haven’t decided if it is finished, but it is finished for now, and all painted today. I enjoy the value study element, but I suspect I will come back and do more because I am thinking about skin tones as I…
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The Practice Is All We Control
“Lost in all the noise around us is the proven truth about creativity: it’s the result of desire – the desire to find a new truth, solve an old problem, or serve someone else. Creativity is a choice, it’s not a bolt of lightning from somewhere else. There’s a practice available to each of us…
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Disrupt the Line
I decided to act on an idea that has been brewing, and spent most of my time today prepping canvases with gesso, and then I got some of them to the stage of having a red ground, and I got the first drawing down onto one of them, mostly so I have something more interesting…
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Mute Pink
I pulled this one out again, and started trying to fix what was bothering me about it. The skin tones were too pink, a hazard when you are obsessed with red grounds. I still don’t think I am happy, but I am happier than I was with it, and it was certainly a better experience…
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Crow Redemption
Yesterday two of my paintings were dropped off at a gallery and I finished a large sketchbook which is full with a lot of work I like. I felt good about my practise. Today I pulled out some soft pastels, graphite and charcoal and started working on an intuitive portrait with no reference. I have…
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It’s All Over
I have become mostly comfortable with putting my art up on this blog, which was one of the reasons I started the 100 Day Project in February 2024. I worked through a lot of inner critic stuff just by being disciplined in posting every day. Today two of my paintings were delivered to an art…
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What What What
I spent a lot of today following news, and procrastinating about the really very simple task of creating labels to include in the cellophane envelopes with these two paintings. It’s one of those things I do, where I build up an imaginary mountain around what ends up being a five minute task. I’ll give myself…
Thrummie Bizzum 