Category: Art
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One Hour Portrait
Lots of painting and pottering in the studio room today, a very satisfying day. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and set a timer for one hour with the challenge of doing a portrait study in oils. This is not something I have any practise in, but I figure if I can enjoy…
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Skeleton Tree
I was browsing a some of my old photos today, looking for themes, ideas, or a small spark, and I came across some of my Skeleton Tree photos. There are lots of stories attached to these photos, and the place where the tree stood, and a deep attachment to a season or two of my…
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Train Day
I had to travel to Edinburgh today to collect my painting as the exhibition has now closed, so I didn’t have a lot of time in the studio. I decided to pull out a gel plate, as that’s always a good way to decompress. Til the morn, Suzanne 301/400
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Three Hundred Days of Art
A little part of me can’t quite believe that I have done this, kept going and made such a significant change for myself. Another small part of me is still thinking I won’t finish the first thirty days, but here I am three hundred days in surveying the queendom of my inner landscape, and bits…
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Sponge Brush Portrait
I’m still playing with this reference from Unsplash that I like, and today I was playing with one of the paint colours I mixed the other day and a sponge brush. I’m really enjoying the sponge brushes just now. I also spent a lot of time trying to organise collage fodder, gel prints, and all…
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Colour Mixing
Carrying on with my colour mixing play the other day, I finished mixing the grid of colours for the sketchbook, and then I decided I wanted a set of nine colours, with a mix of lights, mids and darks. I spent some time mixing colours using the sketchbook palette as inspiration, and I now have…
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Recycled Stars and Inky Drips
I have been busy in my studio today doing lots of different fun things, and one of the fun things I got up to was recycling some pages from an old journal to turn them into collage fodder. I checked the pages first to see if there were any amazing insights, or delicious memories, but…
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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…
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Batching Gesso
Most of my time today was spent priming canvases and other substrates as that’s about as much as I could muster while Storm Darragh blew everything around. Gesso on canvas isn’t very photogenic, so when the lull in the storm came, I did some more crow sketching in my A4 sketchbook. I used a brown…
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Colour Play
Playing with my homemade stay-wet palette and some colour mixing today. I find the stay-wet palette a little challenging because it has sides, and is therefore an enclosed and limited space, and this sort of requires a bit of structure and organisation of paint, and I am not sure I am built that way. But…
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Playing in my new space
I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…
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