Painting from my sketches is something I am having fun with just now. It’s a really fun way to loosen up, and find character in drawings, or find a different character from the first drawing. It’s also a really handy practise on those Don’t Know What To Paint days – just grab a sketchbook, and paint.
Today it was the hare sketches from the other day, and I used my Shitty Brushes and some acrylic paint, and scratched out loose renditions.
I want to do a series of these in my sketchbook and see where this hare ends up. This one definitely has a different energy than the original sketch.
I also worked in my Seawhite A5 that I’m kind of calling an art journal. I think art journals do a different thing than sketchbooks, but there is a lot of crossover.
With this book I work on lots of pages in the same session, often just taking one art supply and repeating a similar process on different pages, with different colours. The pages evolve in layers, and eventually I will resolve each spread to something. It’s a process I have tried with smaller books, with fewer pages, and I’m really enjoying this larger format.
Today I started adding some structural marks using black paint and stencils to various pages. These marks will probably get pushed back with layers, but they are satisfying to make. I work intuitively, and so when I saw an eye on a page, I started there, and pulled out a face.
The spread isn’t finished, but I enjoyed the surprise of bringing this page on from the random layering process.
One hundred and twenty days of art and writing, and I am definitely enjoying how much easier it is to just pick up a substrate and a supply and just get going. Most days. Some days are still challenges, but that is OK.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
120/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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