Month: February 2025

Today is day 365 of daily art plus a blog post. A whole year of showing up for myself, making art, and posting a blog about it as a way of being accountable, and easily countable, to myself. It started out as a 100 Day Project, and became a habit, and it is the best…

Insomnia and the delights of perimenopause meant I did not get to sleep until after 4am. I did not get into the studio until after 3pm, which was way too late to start painting with oils, so today’s plan went out the window. I really don’t have much to show for today – sketchbook scribbles,…

The other thing I worked on today isn’t looking very interesting for a photo so far, but it is going well. I’m trying out Jackson’s Oil Paper, which comes in a gummed block. I started out by priming the top sheet with matt medium, then a couple of coats of gesso. By the time all…

I went back to this today, and did some more work. The face tones are different from the shoulder and hand, and I now need to decide which one to retain. I’m having fun with it, tho. Til the morn, Suzanne 362/400

A small 6×8″ mixed media on 300gsm paper is today’s postcard from the self-care of painting. I hope everyone reading is taking time for a bit of self-care, because the world is a LOT these days. Til the morn, Suzanne 361/400

I went back to this little canvas and did some work on it, and it’s starting to look like more than a sketch. I have a few of these wee 8″ canvases, some are still blank, and some have bits and pieces of ideas. The other canvas I worked on today started out with fluorescent…

I painted the original drookit hare a while back, and I have been playing around with the idea at various points. Today I used a gel plate and charcoal to transfer a scaled version onto six mini canvases. They will be the same, but different, and painted as a batch. I used all six of…

Two pages from today’s sketchbook session. I used my nib pens and Indian Ink for these. Usually I like to scratch around not worrying about making lines that are messy, but this was more about minimal lines. I did overdo the chin a bit, on both, but imperfections are fine. Til the morn, Suzanne 358/400

I had the pleasure of a live model again today, although I didn’t have the budget for getting his claes aff 😁 Jokes aside, I am querying with myself why I haven’t made full use of him before now. He’s quite a good sitter. We did lots of timed poses, mostly full figure poses, and…

I used to enjoy life drawing in times gone by, but most days I don’t have anyone to draw. Today I did, and boy did my brain fire off. It is a very different process than working from reference photos, and that’s good for the grey matter. The first pose was absolutely loaded with foreshortening,…

Sketching with paint. Til the morn, Suzanne 355/400

Lots of painting today. I revisited the limited palette from yesterday, but I added in a yellow for some skin tones. I mixed up a mid tone and then held my palette knife up in front of the painting and recoiled in horror 🙂 I scraped that off my palette and put it on a…