Category: Art
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Foot Thing
I spent some time today rearranging a few of my shelves, moving things that I use into more accessible spaces, and less useful things out of the way. I found a few things I had forgotten about, and I should probably do a shelf emptying task once a month just to reacquaint myself with things.…
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More All Fingers and Pose
I returned to this painting today to do some more work on it, correcting some values, and working on the hands. I’m not finished with it yet, but I’m happy with where I got to. Til the morn, Suzanne 573/600
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Marks
One of the spreads in my mark-making sketchbook from the other day. Today’s art I’m not comfortable sharing, which is unusual for me but I’m going to honour that, some things need to cook and develop. Til the morn, Suzanne 572/600
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Thoughts on Critic, Creativity plus Banksy
I spent a lot of time today journaling, and looking through my sketchbooks, and thinking about my creative process, and then I had a real struggle getting to painting. I listened to what was going on internally, and it was all very negative about how I had wasted my time, and failed to be creative…
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Purple Toes
I had a fun day in the studio today. I spent around an hour working in my mark making sketchbook while on a Zoom meeting with some other artists. I filled three sketchbook spreads with a variety of marks and I have some interesting ideas for taking things a bit further. I was colour-mixing after…
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Incredible ;)
I was doing some colour mixing with a red that I don’t often use, and the results were, shall we say, interesting. I remain unconvinced, and the tube of red paint may remain rarely used. I may have a different view in the morning. I do my best not to waste paint, so I used…
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Limited Brushstrokes
Changing up the way I paint is good for my brain, especially my brain after a migraine, or, arguably, in late-stage migraine. For this exercise I decided to limit my brushstrokes and mark-making, and I was working quickly. I think this would be interesting to try at a slower pace too, and a totally different…
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Ink and Surprise Texture
Today was a migraine day, which was not fun. There was not much creativity, since my vision was twirly aura, and then I felt like rubbish. I did play with an ink that I haven’t done much with since I bought it, and I spread some acrylic ink on a canvas that I had done…
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Four Canvases
Today I have been rotating this batch of canvases, which is a process I am really enjoying. I have been trying out different mixes for the skin tones, and correcting some of the shapes as I go. These will be evolving in layers because there are definitely some changes and choices to be made, but…
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Body Emerging
I liked what happened yesterday in my sketchbook, so I decided to try something similar on one of the canvas boards I have a pile of. I am not in a great frame of body today, but I’ve got the basics of this body lightly painted onto the background. Believe me, she’s in a better…
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Luscious Layering
Today was a really good painting day working on lots of different things, different sketchbooks, and just lots of fun. I found a landscape sketchbook that I think Himself gifted me, and decided that it has obviously been sitting waiting for this day. The opening spread is now adorned with a fairly good representation of…
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A Face Is a Landscape
Me, my shitty brushes, a sketchbook, and I. Painting profiles are harder than I think, but I enjoyed the way I built this one in a probably unconventional way. More a jigsaw of shapes, starting with swirling mark-making for the hair, and extending from there, than a structured placement. One of my intentions with this…
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