Month: May 2026
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Purdah
Today’s sketchbook practice. It’s election day here in Scotland, and also in Wales, and some parts of England are voting in local council elections, so today marks the last day of purdah. I find it interesting the word for the pre-election period, and the tradition of political neutrality from the civil service and other bodies,…
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The Red Darkness
Today’s share is from my 100 Day Project, returning to a palette and look that I really enjoy. Til the morn, election day, Suzanne 809/900
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Floccing Success
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook. I was using up paint on the palette after spending some time in a different sketchbook working on some ideas. I used a big shitty brush and gestural movements, and I like how this one came together. Flocculation update: it worked 🙂 I need to rethink my receptacles,…
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Flocculation
Up until now I have been using the cat litter method for acrylic paint water disposal, but I did a bit more research into the flocculation method, and discovered that it can be done with aluminium sulphate and garden lime, so this week I’m experimenting with the process to see if my scoops are the…
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Exhausting
In 806 days of daily art today has been the most difficult day to meet the commitment. I have made art on all day travel days, and dogsitting days, and extreme peri days, but today was really the worst struggle. The situation with the person who drove into my garden wall has involved a million…
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Not My Mess
If you’ve been following along you will know that there is no greater expert at interfering with my daily art practice than yours truly. Even if I always manage to somehow maintain my daily art practice, there are days when procrastination gets right in the way of it all, and that’s on me. It’s frustrating,…
Thrummie Bizzum 