Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Painting Saves the Mood
I had all sorts of plans for today, and a meticulous To Do List, and I was fired up and ready to conquer life, the universe and everything. The first item on my list was try, again, to contact the retailer who sent me two canvases with rips in the middle of them, which I…
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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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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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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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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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Cheap Sketchbook Success
In theory doing a straight swap of two bookcases and a table to a larger space than the space they were in should be quite a simple undertaking, but no… I’ve completely changed my studio room space, and as much as I am knackered from the decluttering and organising, I am soooooo happy with my…
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All Will Be Revealed
I’m posting an older sketch from my Strathmore Grey sketchbook today, because the art and creativity that I did today aren’t for showing yet. It’s that secretive time of year, you know 😉 Til the morn, Suzanne 287/300
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Sketchbook Experiment
An odd little postcard from today’s creativity showing part of a page in my sketchbook where I am working out an idea, and experimenting with how I want to paint it. Til the morn, Suzanne 286/300
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Fit a Trachle
A long day today. We had a lovely 7 mile walk taking in a bit of the River Ness, a bit of the Moray Firth, and a bit of the Caledonian Canal. Then some lunch, and catching a train late afternoon to return home. Unfortunately that train got stuck behind a broken train, so we…
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Books and Wolves
I spent most of the the day browsing books, mostly in Leakey’s Bookshop (Inverness), and purchases were made. That was the whole point of the trip, so well done me. The tail end of Storm Bert was making itself known with rain and biting wind, so wandering about wasn’t the best fun, but we did…
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