Month: March 2024
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Summertime Blues
100 Day Project Day 43 Summertime officially started today, with the loss of an hour as we spring forward. I was actually awake when my phone reset the time at 1am, which just made the whole thing much more of a shock than usual. It’s just an hour, but it really is confusing in ways…
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Toothiness
100 Day Project Day 41 I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been…
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New Sketchbook Not Sorry
100 Day Project Day 40 I’ve been working in my sketchbooks today. I’m currently drawn to an A5 spiral bound one that is filling up nicely. I also pulled out a blank A4 sketchbook, and started it off with four pages of painting. I recently bought two different sketchbook roughly this size, three if you…
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Painting from my own painting
100 Day Project Day 39 A fun way to practise is copying your own work, it’s a good exercise in trying to recreate colours, and shapes, and it’s also interesting to see where the energy of a piece goes on the next take. I was playing with this idea today by taking a recent face…
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Second Pass
100 Day Project Day 38 Today I set a timer for half an hour and worked in my sketchbook, and filled four pages. The first two pages look like normal human faces, and they arrived on the page without the use of models, or references. One of my favourite processes of creating something out of…
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Monday Musing
100 Day Project Day 37 I spent a lot of time in my sketchbooks today, and played with different materials: black fineliner, a grey lilac brushmarker from a set I never use, and my tub of mixed oil pastels that I also never use. I took stock of all my sketchbooks, just to try and…
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Sketchbook Practise
100 Day Project Day 36 I currently have two new sketchbooks on order despite not having recently finished one, and despite the fact I have a pile of blank sketchbooks of various sizes and paper quality. The problem is that none of those sketchbooks are the specific size and paper quality of the two on…
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Tonal Values Exercise
100 Day Project Day 35 I’m on a bit of a deep-dive with tonal values and colour. I know the theory, and the ways artists use it, and how it works. I just haven’t been consciously applying it to my own art making. I think that might be because I am always wrestling with the…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Blocking Values
100 Day Project Day 33 Today I started another painting using the same reference photo that I used for the painting I finished yesterday. I’m not necessarily trying to get an exact likeness, I’m just using it as practise for seeing the values and shapes in the face. I decided to use cheap cartridge paper.…
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Old Copper and Rust
100 Day Project Day 32 It’s funny how a day that starts out in a clusterbùrach, and looks like it is going to be a write-off can be turned into a day that is good, and all it took was picking up a palette knife and scraping some paint around. I didn’t think I was…
Thrummie Bizzum 