Month: July 2025
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After Ken Currie
A busy, inspiring day today, starting with a trip to Aberdeen Art Gallery. I haven’t visited it for years, and I went to see an exhibition of women artist’s works on paper. That was interesting, and inspiring, but the painting that has stayed with me from wandering all the galleries is the one above. I…
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Sketchbook Spread
It’s fun to distort and elongate legs and shrink heads, but you really don’t have to do that with the pointy dog varieties, they do it all by themselves. The second sketch is a first go at a profile portrait that I haven’t sketched before, finding my way in to the nooks and crannies. Til…
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One Lurcher Lurching
The highlight of the day was a trip to a dog park for a flee about. I did not paint this from life, it was the best photo of the day, taken by Himself. There was no neon yellow paint in my tiny stash, so I improvised. Til the morn, Suzanne 528/600
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Slains Fun
More sketchbook practise on a dining table with art supplies limited to a small travel art kit. Later in the day we visited Slain’s Castle for a wander about. Himself hadn’t been there before, so he went off with his camera, engrossed. I went a different way, and climbed one of the spiral staircases that…
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Teal Thirst
A dining table art session away from home, followed by some birthday art supplies shopping. I got myself some large brushes, but I won’t be able to use them for a week, because not my carpets. Til the morn, Suzanne 526/600
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Just Paint
Yesterday’s post was ringing in my brain today, and I put a large-ish canvas up on the easel and just started playing. There was some sort of sketch on the canvas, but it wasn’t worth preserving, so I mixed some paint and smeared a ground on, and from there things got a bit interesting. Hares…
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A Wee Monkey
It’s always a good idea to decided you are going to paint a painting as a gift two days before you’re due to visit the people your intended gift is for. That’s what I did today, and I’m absolutely convinced it will not be finished by Sunday, but you never know. Yesterday I watched a…
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Rocking a Challenge
Happy Birthday to me. I received a message related to a planned walk: “Remember that you aren’t eligible to do the XXXXX walk unless you bring your own (tastefully painted) stone.” So I painted the joker’s dog, and we’ll see if they are willing to part with the rock, after all. In case they want…
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Ode to a Doo
This is very much in the formative, ugly stage of whatever it’s going to be, which is very much what could be said about my entire day today. I did not get much sleep, and then when I eventually did get off to sleep, I was rudely awakened by a flippin horny wood pigeon telling…
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Half Hidden
Today’s postcard from the sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 521/600
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Indigo Shapes
Indigo and titanium white three value study. This reference has a very subtle head tilt that I seem to be attracted to in reference photos, and then subconsciously try to straighten things up when I am painting. So much so we know it as the effing David Tennant Tilt in this house 😀 No offense…
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Slow Shadows
I’m enjoying this sketchbook practise of value studies. I used some violet acrylic today, and a #4 filbert brush, which is quite a lot softer than my shitty brushes. I often like to work fast, and this practise is much more about slowing down, and being more decisive with my brushstrokes, and it’s definitely a…
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