Month: December 2024
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Late Oil Sketch
I decided that I should probably do something to make things a bit Christmassy, so I spent a lot of time doing lots of little jobs, and some not so little jobs, that have been accumulating on my To Do list for months. It feels good, even if the proper sparkles haven’t been applied yet,…
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Live Sitter
Oil painting again today, this time a bit of fun with a live sitter. Forty-five minutes, and if you turn it upside down, there’s even a likeness. It’s a long time since I’ve done any figure drawing or portraiture with a live sitter, and you can’t tape them to the drawing board in the usual…
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Painting Saves the Mood
I had all sorts of plans for today, and a meticulous To Do List, and I was fired up and ready to conquer life, the universe and everything. The first item on my list was try, again, to contact the retailer who sent me two canvases with rips in the middle of them, which I…
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One Hour Portrait
Lots of painting and pottering in the studio room today, a very satisfying day. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and set a timer for one hour with the challenge of doing a portrait study in oils. This is not something I have any practise in, but I figure if I can enjoy…
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Skeleton Tree
I was browsing a some of my old photos today, looking for themes, ideas, or a small spark, and I came across some of my Skeleton Tree photos. There are lots of stories attached to these photos, and the place where the tree stood, and a deep attachment to a season or two of my…
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Train Day
I had to travel to Edinburgh today to collect my painting as the exhibition has now closed, so I didn’t have a lot of time in the studio. I decided to pull out a gel plate, as that’s always a good way to decompress. Til the morn, Suzanne 301/400
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Three Hundred Days of Art
A little part of me can’t quite believe that I have done this, kept going and made such a significant change for myself. Another small part of me is still thinking I won’t finish the first thirty days, but here I am three hundred days in surveying the queendom of my inner landscape, and bits…
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Sponge Brush Portrait
I’m still playing with this reference from Unsplash that I like, and today I was playing with one of the paint colours I mixed the other day and a sponge brush. I’m really enjoying the sponge brushes just now. I also spent a lot of time trying to organise collage fodder, gel prints, and all…
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Colour Mixing
Carrying on with my colour mixing play the other day, I finished mixing the grid of colours for the sketchbook, and then I decided I wanted a set of nine colours, with a mix of lights, mids and darks. I spent some time mixing colours using the sketchbook palette as inspiration, and I now have…
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Recycled Stars and Inky Drips
I have been busy in my studio today doing lots of different fun things, and one of the fun things I got up to was recycling some pages from an old journal to turn them into collage fodder. I checked the pages first to see if there were any amazing insights, or delicious memories, but…
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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…
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