Late last night I got a blast of inspiration and started prepping a canvas for today. I did say yesterday that my six little canvases might end up shunted again soon. I heard someone referring to this as ‘simmering’ and I suppose that’s a nicer way to put it, it’s definitely more constructive than ‘shunted’ or ‘abandoned’.
Anyway, I pulled out a canvas, a larger one than substrates I have been working on, and primed it with gesso. Later, just before bed, I covered the canvas in a layer of Carmine Red from Sennelier’s Abstract Acrylic range. This isn’t a paint I am familiar with, but I’ve decided I really like it.
Today I did some painting on the canvas, just intuitive mark making with some colours, and in between drying stages I did sketchbook practise. I also counted up how many pages of the A4 sketchbook I have mostly been working in, and set myself and semi-serious goal of finishing the sketchbook by the time I reach 200 days of art blogging.
I do love setting myself these silly goals, even if I rarely meet them, and I’m not convinced that kind of goal is useful, but that’s just how my brain likes to work when I see the end of a sketchbook in sight, it seems.
Some of my sketchbook practise included using a mirror and myself as a reference. I have to say I’m not a fan, but it’s an interesting process and definitely brings up *stuff*. My idea for the canvas involved doing a self portrait of sorts, so after a few sketches, I moved onto the canvas.
So funny looking for the darkest darks in my face and embracing the dark circles under my eyes. I am not a spring chicken anymore lol.
Apologies for the photo quality, we are having a weird light autumn day and my phone is losing it’s mind, but you get the gist. The wee heart at the bottom was a random shape that was just there this morning in the first layer of carmine, so I kept it.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
189/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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