Month: October 2025
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Quiet Blue
A week of social interaction is followed by a day of quiet, and then playing with some of the new supplies I returned with. I also tried mixing a black using quinacridone red, phthalo green blue shade and ultramarine. I like it, it’s quite Payne’s grey in nature. I used what I had mixed for…
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Contains Clown
Most of today was travel and social, so there was just a snatched ten minutes for painting. I decided for a bit of fun inspired by the season, and a decoration I bought. Just a bit of fun. Til the morn, Suzanne 609/700
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Very Handy
I was hoping to get a longer painting session in today as I am dogsitting, but the angle I’m at sitting at a dining table painting is irritating whatever is niggling in my shoulder, so I decided to call it a day after the basic blocking in was done. Perhaps all the ball launching for…
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Budget Paint Swatch Sketch
I didn’t have much time today, as most of the day was taken up visiting the best dog park ever, followed by accumulating an art haul in two different shops. I bought some canvases, brushes, a gold ink that’s supposed to be the most gold ink you can get, a few brushes and a variety…
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Wonky Dog
Sketchbook play doing studies of the wonky dog lurcher I’m staying with. The spread is quick studies from action photos taken at the dog park. The hill at the top is Bennachie, which is the mother mountain backdrop at the dog park, and a landscape knitted into my soul. The next page is one the…
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Warm-up Sketch
A quick portrait sketch today as I’m a bit tired after a 5am start. I did have my sketching kit accessible during my train station layover, but it was black as pitch, so this is all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 605/700
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Melancholy Boy on Red
My To Do List was extensive today, my own doing because I’ve decided at the last minute to go off gallivantin the morn, so organising that took precedent. I did not attempt the last pass of my large portrait because that requires time to meander, and I didn’t want to ruin it. So a quick…
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Fiddling with Fingers
I spent a fair bit of time messing around in my sketchbook today doing productive procrastination. I was avoiding tackling the changes I wanted to make on this, mostly because I thought I was going to mess up the layers. Perfectionism on an experimental painting is just silly. I eventually got bold and went in…
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A bit of this and that
I took a photo of some of my recent things that are sitting around the studio room, as it looked kind of interesting together. I edited in a couple of pics of today’s sketchbook spreads as they’re more interesting than my art tables – my studio is not a curated, instagrammable space, and I had…
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Pushing and Pulling
I’m having a lot of fun with this giant painting, even if I’m not having a lot of fun with that top hand. There will definitely be changes happening there tomorrow. It’s a whole different process with massive paper, big brushes, and much more paint. The layers are building up nicely as I’m pushing and…
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Six Hundred Days of Art
Day 600 of the 100 Day Project I started in February 2024 and didn’t expect to get further than the first couple of weeks, a month tops. I still count the days because maintaining this streak works for me as a motivator. Today’s postcards from the studio are multiple, and I love that over six…
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger…
I have gone big. Properly big. I’ve had the A1 paper for a while, but never got around to getting a big board. Until today. As soon as it arrived I abandoned the sketches in my A4 book, grabbed a 3″ brush, and tried painting a giant hare. It’s not the best hare I’ve ever…
Thrummie Bizzum 