Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Happy Hogmanay!
I started the day with ten pages left to fill in this sketchbook, and ended the day with five pages left to fill, and so I’m closer to the end of the book than I thought I was going to be. Happy Hogmanay! Til the morn, Suzanne 683/700
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The In-Between Times
We are in the In-between Times where no-one knows what day it is. Someone asked me “what days is bins?” and I said “Saturday. But I don’t know what that means.” Today was bins, and they were emptied, and still all is not well in the world. I wanted to write “all is well in…
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Ten Minutes is Enough
I paint every day, come rain or Santa. Hope he was good to you, if that’s your thing. Til the morn, Suzanne 677/700
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Twas The Night Before The Night Before
I started the day with another little oil painting, and the first thing I came up against is something I have come up against frequently, choice paralysis. I heard that phrase somewhere recently and it describes so well what happens sometimes when I really want to paint but can’t decide what. I think the trick…
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Mixing Up The Art Supplies
I started the day with a small oil painting, a study in a canvas sketchbook. My subject was a still-life of two oranges, a blueberry and a banana. This is me trying to kickstart a (maybe) daily oil painting practise. I hadn’t pulled out the oils for a while, and I really enjoyed playing with…
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Revisit and Remix
I spent some time flipping through this sketchbook and making notes on things that caught my eye, and then for this page I combined a few things in ways I hadn’t previously, which gave me some new ideas. Machines can’t do that. Til the morn, Suzanne 672/700
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The Art of Procrastination
My To Do List is seasonally long, and so today I spent all my time painting, and that is the art of procrastination. As part of my mission to finish one of my A3 sketchbooks before the year is out, I painted these three pages. The To Do list will still be there in the…
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Pile of Digits
Another warm-up sketch, hopefully the secret things will be finished tomorrow, or the next day. Til the morn, Suzanne 669/700
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Today’s Warm-up
Another day where I can’t share most of what I’m working on because, well, it’s December 😉 so here’s today’s warm-up sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 668/700
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Figure Drawing Filler
I can’t post most of what I worked on today because of the time of year, and things must remain secret, so the least impressive piece is the image for the blog. I was using up some paint for this sketch in my A3 sketchbook, which I would really like to have filled by the…
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New Pose Workings
Tried out a new pose in my A3 sketchbook, and then I tried doing some small graphite sketches of the same pose, and I was not amused. I just really did not want to draw that small. I put one of the 20x60cm canvases on the easel and started roughly sketching a second standing pose…
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Paint Through It
This sketchbook page is all about practising looking, seeing and translating the shapes and values on the page. It’s about working with a limited palette to help me decide whether I want to use it on a canvas. It’s about being loose with an untidy brush. It’s about trying out a pose to see if…
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