I had a full-on art day today, just hours and hours of pottering and creating. I started out with a figure sketch in my A3 hands and feet sketchbook. I got the basics down, and then I had a Zoom session doing short, timed studies of landscapes with Orla Stevens.
I am not much practised with landscapes, or abstracts, so I have some interesting sketchbook pages that mean things to me, but probably not to anyone else. I thought it was hilarious that in every image that she put up for reference I was seeing faces, and trying not to paint them. I didn’t entirely succeed. I also tried to not use paint, and go for some of my lesser used supplies. This worked for two exercises, and then I confess the paint started entering the chat.
After the workshop I went back to the figure sketch I had started earlier, and it’s kind of down, but I wasn’t feeling it, so I let it be. I prepped a few sketchbook pages with gesso, and covered a canvas in pyrrole red, because I’m spreading that everywhere having acquired a 500ml pot of the stuff, plus a 250ml pot of the Expert version.
Despite having painted most of the day, there was nothing that was making me satisfied with the day, so I spread more pyrrole red in my A3 sketchbook and painted the dancer’s feet above. Now I’m satisfied, and done for the day.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
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Thrummie Bizzum 
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