Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Teal Thirst
A dining table art session away from home, followed by some birthday art supplies shopping. I got myself some large brushes, but I won’t be able to use them for a week, because not my carpets. Til the morn, Suzanne 526/600
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Half Hidden
Today’s postcard from the sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 521/600
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Indigo Shapes
Indigo and titanium white three value study. This reference has a very subtle head tilt that I seem to be attracted to in reference photos, and then subconsciously try to straighten things up when I am painting. So much so we know it as the effing David Tennant Tilt in this house 😀 No offense…
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Slow Shadows
I’m enjoying this sketchbook practise of value studies. I used some violet acrylic today, and a #4 filbert brush, which is quite a lot softer than my shitty brushes. I often like to work fast, and this practise is much more about slowing down, and being more decisive with my brushstrokes, and it’s definitely a…
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My Sad Onion Joy
I acquired a new collectible today, and I am completely in love with it. This wee sketch in my sketchbook doesn’t do it justice, it is the most darling, adorable, sad little onion ceramic lidded pot on the planet. The world is a horrible place, full to the brim with horror, and people telling you…
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Three Value Thirst
Giving my decrepit shitty brush a rest and pulling out a bright #4 for a value study portrait. I used caput mortuum and some titanium white to create three values on the palette, although I didn’t use much of the white in the end, because I decided to use the sketchbook paper as the lighter…
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Swatching Gouache
I’m going through a phase of being a bit reticent about sharing things I’ve been working on. I’m usually not that bothered, and so this is an interesting phase to work through, and ponder what is going on. I found that when I was doing the 100 Day Project (which I stopped after 55 oil…
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Turquoise and Rain
At the risk of this blog morphing into a weather channel, today we had lots of rain, clouds, and cooler temps, in complete contrast to recent days, and it was glorious. It is still raining, and long may it continue. In the studio, I did a lot of pottering about shifting from one thing to…
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Good Hare Day
Both the temperature and the humidity dropped today, although it was still hot and humid by normal standards, but not as unbearable as the last few days. 100% humidity is just unfair. Anyway, I got a lot more time in the studio today, and got some good work done. I started out in the A5…
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Finding a Cool Spot
The weather is meant to change overnight and I can’t wait. I didn’t even bother with going in the studio today, and just grabbed a sketchbook, neocolor IIs and some fineliners and worked in the coolest room in the house. I worked in my A5 spiralbound sketchbook, which is quite random inside. I filled a…
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Dry Media Day
This looks quite blue to me, but that’s probably because all the curtains were closed to try and keep the temperature down. I don’t know what to say about people who are in denial about climate change. Do they live in a temperature controlled basement? This is Scotland during the school holidays, it’s meant to…
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Hot Paint
I did a bit of rearranging today. I have a large box full of canvases in various sizes, but I never use them because the box had a wooded board on top that became a kind of shelf for other things. So I’ve shuffled things around a bit, and maybe I will start using more…
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