Month: July 2025
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Finished a Sketchbook
I finished a sketchbook today. I’m not sure how many pages it has, but it’s now full of graphite portrait drawings and sketches done in twenty minutes or less. The top right is the first page, and the centre bottom is the last page, which I sketched today, and the others are some of my…
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Soft Pastel Everywhere
I am having a lot of fun with this one, not least because whatever perimenopause shite is going on with my hip/knee combo seems to be easing, and I’ve been able to stand for longer periods of time. Yay. This is two more sessions from the last time I posted. The first session involved a…
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Moods and Muslces
My studio was overgrown with clutter which isn’t really clutter, it’s art supplies and wips, but it had moved on from creative chaos to just chaos, so I cleared the decks and reset everything, and that’s always a good feeling. I also spent some time looking at all the photos I took during our recent…
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Chunks and Smears
One of yesterday’s drawings was hilariously bad, but a good smear of gesso over everything but the head made a fresh layer for another go today. I used one of my XL charcoal chunks for some messy, chonky mark-making, and then sprayed it all with water. I can never remember which XL charcoal chunks are…
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Sketch and Moan
I don’t want to write a long post about hip pain, a recently acquired gift from my body, and the way it’s impacting my art practise, so I’ll keep it short. The UK parliament is on the cusp of defining legitimate protest as terrorism, so that’s fun /sarcasm. At least it rained. Til the morn,…
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500 Days
It’s quite a milestone, to have reached 500 days of consistent creativity. I say consistent, but of course the creativity isn’t consistent, it ebbs and flows, and takes different forms. The only consistency is that I do some form of drawing, painting, or making every day. I can highly recommend it. I can see the…
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