Month: September 2024
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Messy
I got messy today, making backgrounds. I am just needing to scrape, and smear, and spread, and mix, and play without looking and observing and seeing and scrutinising. Til the morn, Suzanne 214/300
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Not A Swatch
I mean I was swatching and playing with colour today, but I needed to paint *something* other than pretty, wonky squares. Til the morn, Suzanne 213/300
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Monday Moulachin
Moulachin aboot nae muckle tae show fur it, ken. A bit of Scots language there, for you. Swatching acrylics again today, and isn’t it pretty? I really haven’t done this for a long time, and it shows. I’m doing this in part to kind of appraise what I have, because I have so many paints…
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Sunday Swatching
Some twat was prevaricating about how pointless swatching colours is, that it isn’t creative, and that it spoils sketchbooks, or wastes them, or some tripe. I was good, and I scrolled on past that negativity like a goddess fully in control of her impulses. Swatching is cerative practise. Of course it is. It tells you…
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Non Day
Mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 209/300
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Another Three Hour Portrait
I have been quite comfy in my practise without even realising how comfy I have been, so these challenges I have set myself this week have really bounced me out of that. Sketching with a single colour of paint is obviously very different from producing a portrait that is resolved, mixing skin tones, and using…
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Three Hour Portrait
I have been watching old episodes of the Portrait Artist of the Year series, and marvelling at the artists who take part. I decided to see what it’s like to start and finish a portrait in four hours. Obviously I don’t have a live sitter, nor did I have people all around me, and conversations,…
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Reaching
I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…
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Horsing Around
I was musing to myself the other day about the idea of blogging every day, and whether I wanted to continue after the 200th day or not. It seemed like a good cut-off point to decided whether to end my streak, or whether to carry on. I weighed up the pros and cons of doing…
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Forgot How To Draw
I started a new sketchbook today, although there is one spread in there from June, but other than that it hasn’t been touched. It was interesting observing my thought process around a fresh, new book. It’s essentially the same book – an A4 casebound sketchbook. It’s another pretty inexpensive one, although the other one was…
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Sketchbook Complete
I finished my A4 sketchbook today. I only started it in the last week of March, so that’s quite quick for me. I had no idea what direction this book was going to take when I started it, so it’s interesting to see what happened in there. Til the morn, Suzanne 203/300
Thrummie Bizzum 