Month: January 2025

The piece of brown paper that I prepped with watercolour ground weeks ago, and ignored, and then added the sketch a few days ago….. …… is sitting on my easel glaring at me, and I am avoiding it like the plague. Instead I am doing lots of different things in sketchbooks and whatnot, and convincing…

I didn’t have much time today, and I was feeling quite stressed, so I did a little sketchbook therapy. There are two different sketchbooks in the picture. On the left is a quick gel print using the texture plates I made the other day. They give an interesting, subtle effect, which I like. I am…

I finally got my 16×12″ brown paper out and started committing to the painting, but only after doing another sketch in my A5 sketchbook, which, naturally, I like more than the one on the brown paper. This is the brown parcel paper I covered in clear watercolour ground, and I have no idea how this…

I’m still working with this reference, trying to decide how much I want to put into my painting. I really like the pose, and I like challenging myself with hands, so I think I might stick with the whole image, rather than crop it. It occurs to me this might be a form of procrastination,…

Working in sketchbooks today, and trying to get one old spiral bound one finished. I am practising with this reference that’s a Let’s Face It class reference, trying to decide what I want to put on the page for the class. I still can’t find my bookbinding kit and I am now obsessed with finding…

My large messy mixed media sheet has been transformed into a concertina book. This might be just the next stage in this project, or I might transform it further. This page wasn’t made with any design aspirations, or too much thought, it was instinctive and more about process than perfection. It is interesting how it…

I am obsessed with the mark-making and texture effects of this painting tool. It’s not a painting tool, it’s a pastry basting brush, or it’s a painting tool that looks like a basting brush. If you visit my house and want to baste food, be sure to check you aren’t using a tool that’s been…

I was not feeling at all comfortable today as we were being battered by Storm Éowyn, and I mostly spent a lot of time pacing until my other half finally got home. A pox on shitty employers who force their people to travel when there’s a red danger to life weather warning. Ugh. He got…

I have seen various opinions on the difference between and art journal and a sketchbook, and fundamentally I don’t know if there is much of a difference, but for the sake of better quantifying my vast pile of books-in-progress, this is in my art journal. I am not well-practised in lettering, as you can see,…

A lot of people I know are terrified, in a much worse way than I am, and it’s hard. To top it off, someone I had a lot of time for treated me very poorly today, and it felt like a gut punch. Some late in the day mixed media art therapy on my large…

Struggling with noses today, perhaps it’s because everything got a bit smelly in the world. ugh Til the morn, Suzanne 339/400

I did not break my streak despite the overbearing sense of doom. Til the morn, Suzanne 338/400