Month: June 2025

  • Thingamyjig Joy

    Thingamyjig Joy

    It’s not a very exciting photo today, but I made a sketchbook using the new thingamyjig I got a while back, and it makes the hole punching part of bookbinding about a million times faster with no pfaffing. I love it. The sketchbook in the photo is an interesting construction. The cover paperis folded into…

  • Hare On Canvas WIP

    Hare On Canvas WIP

    (I’m playing around with the theme settings, but I’m not settled on which change I want to make, or if I want to make a change at all. It has all gone a bit purple.) I did a fair bit of procrastinating and painting other things, backgrounds, before I got stuck in with this. I…

  • Wet Hare

    Wet Hare

    Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…

  • Texture Choices

    Texture Choices

    There was a lot of playing and testing and whatnot went on today, but it’s not exactly coherent or photogenic, so here’s a snippet of the canvas board I was testing ideas on next to the hare I painted yesterday. It was a productive day, even if it doesn’t look like it, and decisions have…

  • Pyrrole Orange Hare

    Pyrrole Orange Hare

    I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…

  • Mixed Marks

    Mixed Marks

    I added more texture to my very textured portrait today. I used marble dust, which I have never used before, so this is very much a do it and see what happens. I am not by any stretch of the imagination and old master, although my left knee may well be, but not at painting,…