Month: April 2025
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Six Drookit Hares
I revisited this little project today, making a batch of things that are the same but not the same. Til the morn, Suzanne 438/500
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Sketching Therapy
Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500
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Beauty Spot
This one needs more than an hour to do the beautiful age lines justice, but this is a good first go. Til the morn, Suzanne 436/500
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Grey Beanie
This is a reference I have drawn previously, but never painted. I don’t smoke, so that’s not why I like it, I just like her attitude. I’m definitely feeling that as I’m watching our institutions destroy our Equality legislation. Protect The Dolls Til the morn, Suzanne 435/500
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Clown
When you start painting a self-portrait and it’s not going the way you like you can either push through the discomfort and ugly phase, or act on an impulse and smear a clown face over it, and that’s what I did today. I could write some things about going beyond the reference, but this was…
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Water-mixable Oil Paints Test
This is my first palette using the set of water-mixable oil paints I got the other day. I have seen mixed reactions to these paints, and I am currently sitting in the positive camp, although not necessarily for the same reasons as other folk. They are similar to oils when they come out of the…
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Teeth
This was an interesting exercise. The reference is in black and white, but it is quite overexposed, leaving not much in the way of value, and no colour clues, so I had quite a lot of room for interpretation. The teeth were quite a challenge, because of the small size of the paper, but I…
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Old and New
I finished a sketchbook today. Yay! It’s an A4 spiral bound that I think I started all the way back in 2013, so it has been picked up and abandoned a number of times, and it has a lot of different things going on. I went through a short phase a couple of years ago…
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Express Yourself
Til the morn, Suzanne 430/500
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Looking
The beauty of a timed exercise practise is the way it trains you to make choices about what to leave in, and what to leave out, to get to a resolved piece by the time the beeper beeps. The exercise isn’t entirely about that, though, it’s also just the practise of looking. Til the morn,…
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Musing
Til the morn, Suzanne 428/500
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Looking Down
Twenty minute sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 427/500
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