Category: Art
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Castle and Holes
There was not a lot of time for painting today as we had a day in Royal Deeside, including a wander about this place… Balmoral is opening up to the public these days, but don’t worry, I didn’t spend any money there, they have enough. Ziggy lurcher found some very good sniffs. As far as…
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Flat Painting
I forgot my nightie, my collagen powder, and my table easel. Multiple brain farts. I painted flat, which I am not keen on, so settled for using a previous mini canvas figure as the reference for the figure on the crochet monoprint board. For the second canvas I was using up paint and painting circles.…
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North
I am up in the North-East for a week, and today was travel day. I did do my daily art this morning, before I left, but I forgot to take a photo, and it’s there, two hundred miles away. Instead, a snapshot from the car, of the railway viaduct I usually travel on. Til the…
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Crochet Texture
I am having thoughts about this 100 Day Project, lol. I don’t want it to become the focus of my practice, I want it to just fit in nicely, and that isn’t happening. There’s also a weird bit of negativity someone is attaching to this, and I am working out how to let go of…
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Mini WIPs
The 100 Day Project day 3 I have four mini canvases painted, one finished (yesterday’s Andrew Windsor leaving police custody study) and three WIPs. I am enjoying working with the idea of creating a bunch of WIPs that can be stored up for finishing, this might work well for times when I’m away from the…
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Apologies
My apologies, I think I have been too kind. The whole time I was painting this I was asking myself ‘what is the colour for this skin tone? what is the colour of a dying patriarchy?’ 6×6″ canvas board, acrylic 100 Day Project Day 2 Til the morn, Suzanne 737/800
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Day 1 Again
I paint every day, and blog about it, and the content belongs to me, not a billionaire tech bro with dodgy politics. The first thing I noticed when I went to my studio today was this overbearing “this is for Instagram it has to be good” thinking. This is not usually something I deal with…
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Preparing for a new challenge
I spent some more time with this canvas today, pushing and pulling and sometimes immediately spraying water and wiping paint away. I get to the point that it’s good enough for me, which is all that it’s about really. I’m reminding myself of that as I’m embarking on the 100 Day Project and planning on…
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Returning Rook
This canvas has been sitting untouched since January and today I had a thought about where to go next – texture. I would usually have the texture on the substrate before whatever the thing is that’s going to be the Thing, but I had not much more than the sketch and some value blocking, so…
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Study and Express
I did some more work with the black graphite pencils, and then I made a charcoal sketch with much faster, looser movements, and I like the difference. I bought a small can of “low odour” fixative, because with all the rain we have had there is a backlog of charcoal and pastel works needing fixed.…
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Black Graphite Testing
I bought myself a set of the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils. I’ve been eyeing them for a while. I am sold on anything that suggests it is the blackest black pencil you know, so let’s see how this goes. This is on A2 cartridge paper, so it’s not small, and it’s not finished. I…
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Two Years
Trying something similar to yesterday, and adding in a Conté pencil. I noticed today that yesterday marked precisely two years since I started a 100 Day Project, and then just kept going. Two years of daily art practise is pretty cool. Til the morn, Suzanne 731/800
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