Month: March 2024
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Not Nice
100 Day Project Day 19 There’s a bit of discourse on the socials about the word nice, and some people are just finding out that being nice isn’t the same thing as being kind, or being good, and that being nice, Nice, is more of a facade that covers a lot of nasty. It’s not…
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Figure Version 5.0
100 Day Project Day 18 Feeling a bit wordless as I’ve already written a post over on Substack today. Paint wise, today I have been working on two things. The first is the contiuning saga (in my head) of an oil painting I am doing for a Let’s Face It class. It’s an interesting one…
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Vermillion and Mars
100 Day Project Day 17 I have a confession to make. I bought the sketchbook. I’m beyond redemption. Oh well, fit a shame, never mind. It won’t arrive for a couple of days, but I did get a new tube of vermillion acrylic as my old one died a death that no swirl aboot with…
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Mini painting to the rescue
100 Day Project Day 16 Today is one of those days where the creativity didn’t happen. Some days are like that, and it’s OK. I am committed to this 100 Day Project thing, tho, so I didn’t want to miss a day, so I went to my trusty 6×8 watercolour blocks and grabbed a blank…
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Circles and Spirals
100 Day Project Day 15 I am obsessing about the sketchbook I decided I really can’t justify buying. I am just writing this here because I think it’s hilarious that I am now even more obsessed with buying the thing than I was before I counted all my sketchbooks, piled them up, and decided adding…
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Sketchbook Purchase Averted
100 Day Project Day 14 A new episode of Not A Real Artist, a podcast by Tamara Sagathevan (now Łuć) and Iris Fritschi-Cussens, dropped today. Yay. I love their podcasts, and I quite often put on older episodes in the background while I am creating, because they always spark thoughts, or just give me a…
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Sketching With Oils
100 Day Project Day 13 I took a long time to get going with any sort of art today, despite having scribbled a list of things I wanted to get into to have a full-on art day, hopefully without also flooding the bathroom. It’s just the natural dust settling after my two days of creative…
Thrummie Bizzum 