Thrummie Bizzum

Month: June 2024

  • Clowning Around

    Clowning Around

    Yesterday I read that Meta scraped everyone’s images for their AI enshittification before they offered the opt-out, and the opt-out is only available to folk in the EU. The opt-out doesn’t appear to work for me on Instagram, and given Scotland was dragged out of the EU against our will, I don’t know if it…

  • Finding the Switch

    Finding the Switch

    One of those days where I procrastinated all day about painting, and thinking I was on the verge of breaking my streak… I pulled out my Seawhite sketchbook and did some mark-making across random pages. It’s starting to feel lived-in, and a couple of spreads are starting to look like interesting backgrounds. After that I…

  • Caught in Motion

    Caught in Motion

    This week’s Let’s Face It class is by Juna Biagioni, and I just adore her. The objective of the lesson was creating a portrait of a figure in motion, and I decided to go my own way with the reference image, and use one I have sketched previously, because I thought the messy, energetic monoprinting…

  • Monotype Monday

    Monotype Monday

    Monday is Let’s Face It class day, and this week it’s a Juna Biagioni monoprinting exercise. I love monoprinting, whether it’s gel printing or using other fun techniques, so this is my comfort zone. I’ve chosen an image I’ve sketched from before, and I have the permission of the photographer to use his photo as…

  • Sketchbook Sunday

    Sketchbook Sunday

    Rotating sketchbooks as pages dry is one of my favourite ways of working, although sometimes the day doesn’t seem to have much to show for it. Both my junk journal and my Seawhite A5 are books where I do random layers here and there throughout the book, and at some point a page or spread…

  • New Phone Bleurgh

    New Phone Bleurgh

    I have 104 blank painting surfaces that aren’t paper – stretched canvases, canvas boards, linen canvases, wooden panels and gesso boards. They vary in size from teeny tiny 4×5″ to 24×30″ and I have accumulated them over a long time. Some of them were lost in boxes in the garage, which is perhaps why more…