Month: April 2024
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No Time, Still Showed Up
100 Day Project Day 61 Other things had to be done today, so very limited time for art. I did show up to do a preliminary sketch for another portrait class. I don’t know if I’ll use this sketch, but it’s the art I made today, so I’m posting it. Til the morn, Suzanne
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Artist Influence
100 Day Project Day 60 I confess that I got a new book today, or at least new to me. It’s a retrospective of the Scottish artist Pat Douthwaite, an artist I am currently obsessed with. Douthwaite trained as a dancer, then became an artist in later life, which is just absolutely right up my…
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Cat Girl
100 Day Project Day 59 I have been procrastinating about this painting for ten days. I had the substrate prepped, and the figure sketched, and now I see from scrolling back through this blog that it really is ten days. If I had a pound for every reason and excuse – they are all excuses,…
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From Nothing
100 Day Project Day 58 Happy Monday, or as close to something resembling happy as you can get. If your Monday is as blue as fuck, or some sort of dirty shade of mud you weren’t meaning to mix with paint, that’s valid too, don’t feel pressure from my greeting to be anything other than…
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Developing Photos
100 Day Project Day 57 A little thing I have been doing recently is using my own landscape photos as references in my sketchbook practise. Sometimes it’s an exercise in colour and tonal value, and sometimes it’s about observing perspective, and sometimes it’s about rejecting parts of what is in the photo to make a…
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Two Colour Limit
100 Day Project Day 56 What happens if I make a colour palette using only two colours plus black and white? I started by selecting one colour, and I set myself up for some fun with fluorescent magenta, because why not? I decided to go with a green so I was in complimentary colour territory,…
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One pose four drawings
100 Day Project Day 55 I spent a couple of hours doing figure drawing practise today. I chose one pose from the Figure Drawing Studio CD and used it as my reference. There’s a lot of foreshortening in the pose, so it’s a good challenge for my brain to try and render what I am…
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Toes!
100 Day Project Day 54 I’ve noticed a weird thing going on. If I write a blog and post it here, I don’t have so many attachments to what happens after. Some people read it (thank you!), some like it (thank you!), and a couple of people comment (very thank you!). If I post elsewhere,…
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Blogging is self-care
100 Day Project Day 53 I was having a conversation about blogging, and showing up to create every day, and the way that has turned into a form of self-care. The friend I was having the conversation with described her stash of art materials, and the fact she just can’t just now, and her self-care…
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Speechless
100 Day Project Day 52 I watched the Netflix documentary The Anti-Social Network last night, and it’s a wild ride in terms of condensing the reasons we are where we are in terms of truth and discourse. I highly recommend it. I’m thinking about it a lot as a watch the Scottish political scene descending…
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Monday
100 Day Project Day 51 I showed up. I did some figure studies. I bear witness to the footage coming out of the remains of al-Shifa hospital, and the horror exacted on those people. I cannot respect anyone who supports this, or who argues that the people doing this, or those supplying them with the…
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Fifty
100 Day Project Day 50 I’ve reached day 50 of this blogging and arting project, and that feels like a bit of an achievement. Today is just a quick first layer of a face in my sketchbook, because that’s enough some days. If you have been following along for these fifty days, what are you…
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