Month: September 2024
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Grey
I had some mars black left from something I was working on, so I mixed in some zinc white to make a non-chalky grey, and then tried some portrait practise with it. I used a different brush instead of my bristly ones, too see what I came up with. I wasn’t a fan of the…
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Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence
Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…
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Two Hundred
Given that I wasn’t expecting to last even thirty days at this malarkey, I’m going to reward myself for sticking with this for two hundred days. I think it might be considered a habit now. I did not, as it happens, complete that sketchbook to coincide with this. I had a feeling that I wouldn’t,…
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Making a Stay-Wet Palette
Yesterday I moved some things to my studio room from the wee room that I was using previously. It was the next stage in claiming my space as a studio. Today I was painting, and kept finding myself in the wee room looking for A Thing, then remembering all the things are now in the…
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Tidying My Studio Room
I spent a good chunk of my creative time rearranging and organising my Studio Room today. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I can only figure that out by working in it. I moved another daylight lamp in, which is going to come into major play as winter continues creeping, and…
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Painted All Day
Today I filled four spreads in my sketchbook, and this is the most coherent snippet from those pages… The spreads are all working out ideas for a painting, but it’s still in the early stages and I have the sense that if I talk about it, that might dissipate the energy around it. As I’ve…
Thrummie Bizzum 