Category: Art
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I See It With My Own Eyes
I have been drawing eyes like this today, and watching the evil Israel has yet again meted out to a hospital, its staff, and the patients. That’s all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 315/400
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Look Up
I used my jumbo retractable pencil with the 5B lead for this one, and played with the reference a little. After the art, I went for a 5 mile walk, and while we were out, felt the weather change and get colder, which it hasn’t been this week, it has been far too warm for…
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Pondering
Contemplating the idea of a daily sketch as I have a tendency to forget about the joys of dry media. Pondering the new year, which comes after Hogmanay, and the Word of the Year, which is going to be a phrase it seems. I have definitely entered the end of year twilight zone where I…
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Xmas Sketch
Hope you have had a good day if you are celebrating, and if you aren’t celebrating, I hope the same. I got a sketchbook among my gifts, so what better way to keep the streak going than to test it out with a quick wee portrait. I also got a guillotine, so let’s herald a…
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Layers and Glazing
Continuing on with the piece I started yesterday, adding layers of marks, symbols and glazing. Always make notes about how you did things, because the piece that inspired this is a spread in an art journal that I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, but I’m having fun trying to…
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Layering Not Myself
I had a little more time in the studio today, so that was good. I have a block of watercolour paper that doesn’t like watercolour so I going to see how much of a beating it can take with mixed media. This has four layers before I got to the face, and it hasn’t rebelled.…
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Red Crow
Oil on canvas paper. Til the morn, Suzanne 309/400
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Hanging in there
Another day where time was not available, so it’s another evening sketch. This time using a reference of Rick the Muse. Til the morn, Suzanne 308/400
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Toned Gray Sketching
Another day with very little time for art. Poo. I probably could have had more time if I hadn’t procrastinated my way through my To Do list, but who needs that kind of self-reflection. Good grief. The second parcel of very large canvases, which were a replacement for the ones that arrived damaged a couple…
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Late Oil Sketch
I decided that I should probably do something to make things a bit Christmassy, so I spent a lot of time doing lots of little jobs, and some not so little jobs, that have been accumulating on my To Do list for months. It feels good, even if the proper sparkles haven’t been applied yet,…
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Live Sitter
Oil painting again today, this time a bit of fun with a live sitter. Forty-five minutes, and if you turn it upside down, there’s even a likeness. It’s a long time since I’ve done any figure drawing or portraiture with a live sitter, and you can’t tape them to the drawing board in the usual…
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Painting Saves the Mood
I had all sorts of plans for today, and a meticulous To Do List, and I was fired up and ready to conquer life, the universe and everything. The first item on my list was try, again, to contact the retailer who sent me two canvases with rips in the middle of them, which I…
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