Month: February 2026
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Inverness and Toes
Some snaps from our Inverness trip. Today’s art: Charcoal, acrylic ink and medium. Til the morn, Suzanne 730/800
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Eye Distort
I am one of those people who needs extreme downtime after a lot of social activity, or situations like travel. Today was a darkened, downtime day. For the arting I pulled up one of the blind contour self-portraits I have been doing and mixed some acrylic ink with fluid medium to try out a new,…
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Travel Day
Home again. It’s actually colder here than it is up north, pfft. Luckily my model for this quick sketch is a reference photo, so she doesn’t mind. I love being away to fill the well, but I love coming back to get in amongst my supplies again. I wanted to share today’s interview with Tracey…
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Look at the tree, not the sketch
A terrible photo of a mediocre sketch of a sculpture of a woman named Flora, but not THE Flora. I took some photos, so I might draw her again. Today’s adventure included browsing Leakey’s Bookshop, which is a non-negotiable on these trips. The art books section is huge, and a lot of them are in…
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Sparkle Castle
It’s snowing as I type, but it’s late in the evening, and the snow arrived around 12 hours later than forecast. We ended up with a glorious day, and the first blue sky and sunshine I have seen for about a month. We wandered round to Inverness Castle, since it recently re-opened following a refurbishment…
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Up North
Waking at 4:45am to get ready and down to the train station for the first train out seems like a long time ago. Three trains and we arrived in Inverness mid-morning to, surprisingly, no rain. The forecast was wonderfully wrong. We took the opportunity to go for a walk, since we don’t know how the…
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How To Art and things
Over the past few evenings I read How To Art by Kate Bryan. I have been trying a new evening routine whereby I do not take my phone to bed, and instead I read. This tiny change has already improved my wellbeing. I had to buy an alarm clock, because I have for years been…
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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Staring Selfie Layers
I made this background yesterday, and today I went with the same selfie that I was playing with yesterday. It’s a photo that is intentionally a bit weird, so the staring is capturing what’s in the photo. I wiped off the neck and shoulders because I didn’t like what was happening, so that’s why it…
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Disrupt Me
Playing with disruption and self portraiture today. I set up three sheets of A2 cartridge paper and took a photo of my face and used that as a reference. The idea isn’t to chase a likeness, it’s to experiment with disrupting the face and seeing what happens, and what I like and what I do.…
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Round and Round
Things got a bit carried away today as my washing machine decided to get stuck in a perpetual cycle and I spent an inordinate amount of time watching the thing going round and round hoping I had managed to coax it into a different cycle that would result in it beeping and letting me open…
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