Month: February 2024
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‘Are You Listening?’ Submission Complete
100 Day Project Day 12 Today I was working on my affa muckle lug, which is a very large ear in English. I had to ride roughshod over a LOT of negative thinking, and my inner critic was very intent on trying to stop me from finishing this painting. The internal dialogues were going wild,…
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An Affa Muckle Lug
100 Day Project Day 11 If Monday’s in-house waterfall wasn’t an example of my neurospicy brain in full elemental action, then today’s random explosions might be. I started out with the goal of simply writing a Substack post. I am trying not to just download my blog over there, so I am conscious I now…
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Sketchbook flip-through
100 Day Project Day 10 I did not flood anything today. As far as I know. I did some work on my Self Portrait While Kitchen Ceiling Floods. I had to trick myself into picking up the paint brush by telling myself it was only twenty minutes with one colour, which turned into an hour…
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Self Portrait Work In Progress
100 Day Project Day 9 Today was a perfect art day, I was buzzing about doing All The Art. It was one of those days where I felt like I was on top of my game. I unwrapped two canvases and got my gesso layers on. They do come with the claim that they are…
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Scent of a Rose finished painting
100 Day Project Day 8 I think I am done with my oil painting. The photo isn’t perfect because some places on the painting are wet, and also we have bright sunshine and this is just a pic for this diary. I don’t paint in oils very often, and I am quite pleased with this,…
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Procrastination Cessation
100 Day Project Day 7 I wholly recommend naming your procrastination publicly on a daily basis, as I finally broke through and opened a tube of oil paint today. I tried all the excuses have been running in my head for the past however long it is, things like “oh it’s too late in the…
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Junk Journal Crow 6/100
100 Day Project Day 6 My junk journal is made from actual junk mail, and it is impossible to be precious about anything that is happening inside it. It just begs to be covered in non-dominant handed scribbles, and layers of grungey texture. That’s where I ended up today, after doing some pottering trying to…
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Hate It Posting Anyway
Gads, min. I really liked my icy blue experiment yesterday, so today I swapped the raw umber for van dyke brown, and added phthalo blue, and just played with some tints, tones and shades. I used a selfie reference for the initial Stabilo All and water sketch, and then just played fast with the colours…
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Cerulean Blue Muse
100 Day Project Day 4 I am still wildly procrastinating over finishing an oil painting I am working on. It really only needs one more pass, but my flow was interrupted, and now it has this invisible and currently impenetrable shield around it. It’s productive procrastination, tho, as I have been doing a bit of…
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100 Day Project Day 3
I don’t have much of a problem being creative every day, even when I am procrastinating about finishing something – which I am very much doing right now – I have lots of other things I can pick up and work on, and I work in sketchbooks and journals, so the challenge with this 100…
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When Governments Demand Artists Stop Being Political I Raise One Finger
A blog about the intersections of art, politics and censorship. As I am exploring the ways in which I want to be online in terms of sharing my creativity and art, I am coming up against a LOT of advice, rules and, frankly, privilege. There’s a lot of advice that says don’t be political, and…
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100 Day Project Day 2
I’ve been listening to podcasts while doing some organising of my art supplies today, and more than one had discussions about social media and perfectionism, and that is one of the reasons I often lose momentum on these art every day type challenges. I’m going to try not to do that this time. So here’s…
Thrummie Bizzum 