Category: Art
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Procrastination Cessation
100 Day Project Day 7 I wholly recommend naming your procrastination publicly on a daily basis, as I finally broke through and opened a tube of oil paint today. I tried all the excuses have been running in my head for the past however long it is, things like “oh it’s too late in the…
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Junk Journal Crow 6/100
100 Day Project Day 6 My junk journal is made from actual junk mail, and it is impossible to be precious about anything that is happening inside it. It just begs to be covered in non-dominant handed scribbles, and layers of grungey texture. That’s where I ended up today, after doing some pottering trying to…
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Hate It Posting Anyway
Gads, min. I really liked my icy blue experiment yesterday, so today I swapped the raw umber for van dyke brown, and added phthalo blue, and just played with some tints, tones and shades. I used a selfie reference for the initial Stabilo All and water sketch, and then just played fast with the colours…
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Cerulean Blue Muse
100 Day Project Day 4 I am still wildly procrastinating over finishing an oil painting I am working on. It really only needs one more pass, but my flow was interrupted, and now it has this invisible and currently impenetrable shield around it. It’s productive procrastination, tho, as I have been doing a bit of…
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100 Day Project Day 3
I don’t have much of a problem being creative every day, even when I am procrastinating about finishing something – which I am very much doing right now – I have lots of other things I can pick up and work on, and I work in sketchbooks and journals, so the challenge with this 100…
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When Governments Demand Artists Stop Being Political I Raise One Finger
A blog about the intersections of art, politics and censorship. As I am exploring the ways in which I want to be online in terms of sharing my creativity and art, I am coming up against a LOT of advice, rules and, frankly, privilege. There’s a lot of advice that says don’t be political, and…
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100 Day Project Day 2
I’ve been listening to podcasts while doing some organising of my art supplies today, and more than one had discussions about social media and perfectionism, and that is one of the reasons I often lose momentum on these art every day type challenges. I’m going to try not to do that this time. So here’s…
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100 Day Project 2024 Day 1
Just in at the last minute for Day 1 of the #100dayproject, although this blog is being posted on Day 2, but that’s how I roll. It was after 10pm here when I remembered, so this is a quick sketch using a selfie profile photo for reference. No daylight for taking the pic of the…
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Painting Over Perfectionism
Yesterday I spent some time on the oil portrait I have been working on. I am not much used to working in oils, so the learning curve is, well, curvy, and steep. I realise I have become quite comfortable in making art fast, and I enjoy that process, and it definitely helps me be loose and…
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Continuing practise
How is my practise and word of the year going? Well, it’s the start of February and I have managed to blog on a loosely weekly schedule. There’s no schedule, that word is glowing up the vague remembrance to actually write something on the website I pay for. I notice the weird internal dialogue about…
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Critical Comparison Crap
I’m working on two paintings this week, both using the same reference. Here’s one of the works-in-progress with the background and underpainting blocked in. I’m enjoying this immersion in portraiture so much, and I’m having so many ideas for paintings. Recently, I saw a portrait by another artist in the online class/community I’m participating in,…
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Blocks, blocked, and unblocked
I have been making art since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I won an art prize when I was around 5 years old, with a painting of a steam engine. I remember being so excited about winning this prize, and the fact I would have to attend the Steam Engine Rally to collect my…
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