Ill-tricket

I’m probably just going to post my mini-painting project here and not participate in the 100 Day Project, since it appears to be mostly an Instagram thing. I posted on Instagram to participate and ended up blocking half a dozen accounts who left comments demanding I send them copies of my picture so they could post them on their own accounts. I previously had another picture just lifted without permission, although that chancer thought they were being courteous by tagging me to let me know they had stolen my image. It’s not as if Instagram doesn’t have a specific tool allowing people to promote other people’s work, but these chancers aren’t really interested in promoting other people.

Anyway, social media criticisms aside…

This might be a colour scheme and style that will appear more than once in this project. I’m very much obsessed with using my Princeton wedge to smear transparent red oxide paint everywhere. This part of my style development journey emerged when I made a painting inspired by a Life Book class, and I felt moved, and quite chuffed, with my own work.

I find the paintings that I like most, whether they are mine, or someone else’s, are not Nice paintings. I like finding the darker vibe, the shadows, and the ill-tricket energy. My Granda used to tell me I was an ill-tricket bizzum, he’d probably say the same today.

ILL-TRICKIT, adj. Also -et, -id; -y. Prone to play tricks, full of mischief, roguish (n.Sc. 1825 Jam.; Cai. 1902 E.D.D.; Mry. 1925; Sh., Ork., Cai. (-id), ne.Sc., Ags. 1958). Also, by conflation with Ill-contrived, ill-contricket (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 87). Superl. ill-trickitest (Abd. 1913 D. Scott Hum. Sc. Stories 56). Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.