Category: Art
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Chunks and Smears
One of yesterday’s drawings was hilariously bad, but a good smear of gesso over everything but the head made a fresh layer for another go today. I used one of my XL charcoal chunks for some messy, chonky mark-making, and then sprayed it all with water. I can never remember which XL charcoal chunks are…
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Sketch and Moan
I don’t want to write a long post about hip pain, a recently acquired gift from my body, and the way it’s impacting my art practise, so I’ll keep it short. The UK parliament is on the cusp of defining legitimate protest as terrorism, so that’s fun /sarcasm. At least it rained. Til the morn,…
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500 Days
It’s quite a milestone, to have reached 500 days of consistent creativity. I say consistent, but of course the creativity isn’t consistent, it ebbs and flows, and takes different forms. The only consistency is that I do some form of drawing, painting, or making every day. I can highly recommend it. I can see the…
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Leggy
I collected a lot of photos for references last week, so today I have started painting from some of them. It is 25°C in my upstairs rooms, so it’s not mean feat that I managed to paint today, because WTF. WTF is being uttered quite a lot here. I wrote a long piece about what…
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New Things
I spent today having quiet time after a week of being in company, and other sensory input. I unpacked, and looked over my new art supplies. Five new sketchbooks might seem excessive, but the three spiral bound ones came in a pack for £5.59. That’s an absolute bargain, given there’s an A3, and A4 and…
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Sketch and Go
We returned home today, and I’m glad I painted this first thing before we left, because I’m about as flat-out as she is. Til the morn, Suzanne 497/500
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Ziggy Too
This one looks more like Ziggy than yesterday’s sketch. I would like to say he sat still and this was drawn from life, but no, never happening. Last day of our wee jaunt, and we were rained off the destination of choice, but ended up in a garden centre where plants from the rescue section…
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Ziggy
Ziggy looking like butter wouldn’t melt. Don’t be fooled. Most of today has been out and about, first in art supplies shops, then making friends with lots of old trees. I don’t live near art supplies shops, so I relished the visit. I did not make it out unburdened. Til the morn, Suzanne 495/500
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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Hairy Beasties
Not in my usual spot today, so sitting painting in my sketchbook instead of standing, and one reference was a living being who wasn’t posed, didn’t know they were being appropriated, and I conclude a more fidgety than I thought. I’ll leave it up to your imagination which one is the living, highly mobile, being.…
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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