Category: Art
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Toes!
100 Day Project Day 54 I’ve noticed a weird thing going on. If I write a blog and post it here, I don’t have so many attachments to what happens after. Some people read it (thank you!), some like it (thank you!), and a couple of people comment (very thank you!). If I post elsewhere,…
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Blogging is self-care
100 Day Project Day 53 I was having a conversation about blogging, and showing up to create every day, and the way that has turned into a form of self-care. The friend I was having the conversation with described her stash of art materials, and the fact she just can’t just now, and her self-care…
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Speechless
100 Day Project Day 52 I watched the Netflix documentary The Anti-Social Network last night, and it’s a wild ride in terms of condensing the reasons we are where we are in terms of truth and discourse. I highly recommend it. I’m thinking about it a lot as a watch the Scottish political scene descending…
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Monday
100 Day Project Day 51 I showed up. I did some figure studies. I bear witness to the footage coming out of the remains of al-Shifa hospital, and the horror exacted on those people. I cannot respect anyone who supports this, or who argues that the people doing this, or those supplying them with the…
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Fifty
100 Day Project Day 50 I’ve reached day 50 of this blogging and arting project, and that feels like a bit of an achievement. Today is just a quick first layer of a face in my sketchbook, because that’s enough some days. If you have been following along for these fifty days, what are you…
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Ebb and Flow
100 Day Project Day 49 Creativity ebbs and flows, and today the ebb of the last few days turned into flow. Part of theat is just the way it is, and part of it was playing some wee tricks with a timetable and timers. I didn’t keep to the timetable, and I ditched the timer…
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More Gesture Drawing
100 Day Project Day 48 Today’s practise included more gesture drawing in my sketchbooks. I am currently working in an A5 spiral bound book, and a cheap A4 hardcover thing I found on a shelf. The paper in that one isn’t great, so I coat it with sludge gesso before I use it for painting.…
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Gesture drawing and mist
100 Day Project Day 47 There really wasn’t a lot of time for art today, although there was probably more time than I’m letting on. Ha. That said, I did go to my sketchbook to do some practise, because this is a daily habit, whether it is minutes or hours, and all my art making…
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Thirty Minutes
100 Day Project Day 46 Sometimes all you have is a short window of opportunity, and it becomes a choice whether to take the risk and fail, and then have a choice about whether to bereal, or skip a day. A lot of online art sharing is art sharing, not practise sharing, and I think…
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Raw umber and charcoal
100 Day Project Day 45 In a wild attempt to produce three class paintings so I can catch up with Let’s Face It, I worked on two paintings today. I had prepped both the substrates the other day, so I had no excuses, but you can be rest-assured that all manner of procrastination was undertaken.…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
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Summertime Blues
100 Day Project Day 43 Summertime officially started today, with the loss of an hour as we spring forward. I was actually awake when my phone reset the time at 1am, which just made the whole thing much more of a shock than usual. It’s just an hour, but it really is confusing in ways…
Thrummie Bizzum 