Month: April 2025

  • Eyes Up

    Eyes Up

    Ten minutes sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 426/500

  • Self Care

    Self Care

    Yesterday was A Lot, and not just the Supreme Court verdict, and the regression of rights, there were other things to process. Today I took a day off portraiture. I still intend to complete my 100 Day Project, but today needed to be a day of doing more playful stuff, so that’s what I did.…

  • WHUT

    WHUT

    My response to every sentence of the UK Supreme Court verdict today. WHUT? None of that bullshit is about “protecting women”. Fuck transphobia. Til the morn, Suzanne 424/500

  • Contrast

    Contrast

    That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500

  • This Week’s Theme Is…

    This Week’s Theme Is…

    Challenging expressions. Day51/100 I’m tempted to just stick with this one reference photo for the week, as I think I can get a lot out of this one. I’ve chosen a few for the week, tho, just to carry on with the experiment of planning and theming. I really wanted to be working on a…

  • Fifty Days Fifty Portraits

    Fifty Days Fifty Portraits

    Day 50 of the 100 Day Project and here are all fifty portraits. There was one portrait that I completed over two days because I was having a pain issue, and there was another day early on where I was so appalled at what I painted that I painted a second portrait, so I’m including…

  • Mood

    Mood

    Sketchbook practise twenty minutes portrait. More chat tomorrow. Til the morn Suzanne 420/500

  • Pearls

    Pearls

    With the exception of a few minutes around the eye, I used one large long flat for this, and it was a good challenge. Til the morn, Suzanne 419/500

  • Sketchbook Pages

    Sketchbook Pages

    I haven’t been posting from my sketchbooks recently, so here are a couple from the sketchbook I’m working in the most at the moment. It is a 9×12″ spiral bound sketchbook in portrait format with slightly toothy paper. I use it for my morning sketch practise, which is currently focused on portrait drawing, but that…

  • Negative Space

    Negative Space

    Day 46 of the 100 Day Project. I used the Zorn Palette again, mostly because there were leftover little piles of paint that I thought I could use up. I went through an ugly phase and decided it was the wrong palette, but the clock was ticking, so I had to work the palette, and…

  • Success and Interference

    Success and Interference

    Last night I spent a little time looking at reference photos, and decided on profiles as a theme for this week. I set up a note in my phone designating a reference for each day, and made some other notes about things I’d like to get stuck into if I manage to give myself more…

  • Should I Call Her The Markets?

    Should I Call Her The Markets?

    Daily practise is many things, the obvious being improving skills, which includes the skill of being able to let it go more easily when things don’t go to plan. Daily practise starts to yield bodies of work that help with deciding what you like, what you don’t like, and what you want to say with…