Month: August 2025
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Maidenless Hands
Another day of meditative hand studies. I seem to have moved into this A3 sketchbook without much resistance, and things are cooking. Til the morn, Suzanne 537/600
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Hand In My Sketchbook
More fun with hands today. I pulled out a bunch of art supplies that I haven’t used in a while, and mixed things up a bit. There’s a chinagraph pencil, a gel pen, woodies, sharpies, watercolour pencils, neocolor IIs. Playing a lot with the supplies, and using swirly gestural marks, and having fun being loose.…
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Hold Your Hand Still
Continuing with the theme of hands in my extremely inexpensive A3 sketchbook, I am mixing up the materials a bit. I pulled out a chinagraph pencil, and did some studies with that. I’m not huge on using erasers even if I’m using graphite, but I very much like things like chinagraph pencils, because all your…
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Handy
Storm Floris was not a pleasant accompaniment to the day, but we appear to have suffered no damage, other than one very upright stem of my very wild rose bush might be broken. I went back to yesterday’s portrait and did some correcting, then hung it with the growing collection of brown paper pieces. When…
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Get Over It
I procrastinated ALL day. I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head, but I just did not make it into the studio to paint until I had thirty minutes until Himself was due home. Ugh. I hate those kind of days. Eventually I rolled out some brown paper and made a mid tone…
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Blurry Day
Today was filled with packing and then travelling home, with the additional gift of a migraine. I did the bare minimum of a couple of rough sketches on a spread in my sketchbook. Streak maintained lol. Til the morn, Suzanne 532/600
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Maiden Stone
We have been out on adventures all day, and it’s after 9pm. I’m knackered, but just enough spoons in the drawer for a very quick sketch of one of the places we visited today, the Maiden Stone. She’s an old friend of mine, and I have two inks of the Pictish Beastie she sports, carved…
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