Month: December 2024
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Batching Gesso
Most of my time today was spent priming canvases and other substrates as that’s about as much as I could muster while Storm Darragh blew everything around. Gesso on canvas isn’t very photogenic, so when the lull in the storm came, I did some more crow sketching in my A4 sketchbook. I used a brown…
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Colour Play
Playing with my homemade stay-wet palette and some colour mixing today. I find the stay-wet palette a little challenging because it has sides, and is therefore an enclosed and limited space, and this sort of requires a bit of structure and organisation of paint, and I am not sure I am built that way. But…
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Playing in my new space
I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…
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Surprise Shelf
I thought I was going to get stuck in with the new studio room set-up today, but the installation of a narrow shelf at the back of my workbench meant that there was another round of moving things. The wee shelf finishes everything off perfectly, so tomorrow I have no excuses for not painting all…
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Cheap Sketchbook Success
In theory doing a straight swap of two bookcases and a table to a larger space than the space they were in should be quite a simple undertaking, but no… I’ve completely changed my studio room space, and as much as I am knackered from the decluttering and organising, I am soooooo happy with my…
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Colour Note
I spent a lot of time today organising books. I have a lot of books, but never too many. There’s no such thing. The problem, and it’s a nice problem to have, is that moving two large bookcases to my studio room means choices have to be made about what goes in those bookcases, and…
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Still Cloaking
I have again been painting secret things that can’t be posted yet. So, another from the past, a favourite painting of mine, and a process I haven’t been doing much of recently, so putting it on the list of things to revisit. Other than painting secrets, I have been rearranging stuff to try and have…
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