Month: April 2024
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Ebb and Flow
100 Day Project Day 49 Creativity ebbs and flows, and today the ebb of the last few days turned into flow. Part of theat is just the way it is, and part of it was playing some wee tricks with a timetable and timers. I didn’t keep to the timetable, and I ditched the timer…
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More Gesture Drawing
100 Day Project Day 48 Today’s practise included more gesture drawing in my sketchbooks. I am currently working in an A5 spiral bound book, and a cheap A4 hardcover thing I found on a shelf. The paper in that one isn’t great, so I coat it with sludge gesso before I use it for painting.…
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Gesture drawing and mist
100 Day Project Day 47 There really wasn’t a lot of time for art today, although there was probably more time than I’m letting on. Ha. That said, I did go to my sketchbook to do some practise, because this is a daily habit, whether it is minutes or hours, and all my art making…
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Thirty Minutes
100 Day Project Day 46 Sometimes all you have is a short window of opportunity, and it becomes a choice whether to take the risk and fail, and then have a choice about whether to bereal, or skip a day. A lot of online art sharing is art sharing, not practise sharing, and I think…
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Raw umber and charcoal
100 Day Project Day 45 In a wild attempt to produce three class paintings so I can catch up with Let’s Face It, I worked on two paintings today. I had prepped both the substrates the other day, so I had no excuses, but you can be rest-assured that all manner of procrastination was undertaken.…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
Thrummie Bizzum 