Month: August 2024

  • Analogous

    Analogous

    The absolute privilege of being able to shut myself off from the world for a couple of hours and just play with paint, make absolutely terrible portraits, and have my biggest existential dilemma be whether I want to be a person who has clean stencils, or a person who has gorgeoulsy grungey stencils is not…

  • A Ragged Screech

    A Ragged Screech

    I figured out my weird mood yesterday when I woke up this morning with the delights of an aura migraine. Yum. Of course it’s very sunny today, which amplifies the various elements of my frothy duvet brain. This too shall pass. Despite my affliction, I got a lot more into arting today than I did…

  • Monday

    Monday

    I just wasn’t feeling it today at all. It’s not surprising, and I am not going to be hard on myself, because the world is overwhelming just now for those of us who are paying attention. I did do art, even though I just couldn’t settle down to anything, but it felt like a desperate…

  • Sunday Sketch

    Sunday Sketch

    Interesting that my interpretation comes out looking much more stern than the vulnerability and softness of the reference, but then I have been watching footage of white supremacists setting fire to a hotel with human beings they trapped inside, and it was in England, not Gaza. So that’s all I have today. Til the morn,…

  • World Gone Mad Do Art

    World Gone Mad Do Art

    I had a really good day in my studio room today, a really fun day, despite everything going on out there. One of the things I did was revisit this drawing from earlier in the year. I love this reference, and I love my drawing, and I have never felt the urge to revisit this…

  • Playing With Marks I Made

    Playing With Marks I Made

    Neocolor IIs in my sketchbook, making faces incorporating one of the clusters I made during yesterday’s mark making, and adding to it. Til the morn, Suzanne 167/200

  • Change It Up Mark Making

    Change It Up Mark Making

    I ended yesterday’s blog thinking about a book I need, and acknowledging that I received three new art books for my birthday. One of those books has been carried around with me from studio room to sofa to bedside ever since it arrived. I am smitten. The book is Drawing and Painting People A Fresh…