Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Showgirl
I did some figure drawing practise today, and I quite like the way this sketch turned out. I was using a larger brush than usual, which made some of the details quite challenging, but that’s the fun of it. Til the morn, Suzanne 238/300
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Mirrie Dancers
I’m still obsessed with gel printing from orange bags, and obsessed in general with my little 3×5″ gel plate. Aside from playing with that, and more work filling my little gel plate sketchbook, I made a face in my A4 book. So many ways to make a face – realistic portraiture, or using a reference…
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Comfort Zone
Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300
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Aye Aye
I was going to call this blog ‘ebb and flow’ but I can’t resist a pun. A few days of semi-frustrating ebb with higher resistance seems to have shifted into a much more satisfying and productive flow. This is how it happens, as I keep learning throughout this daily challenge. I started out with my…
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Turquoise and Mars Red Oxide
It occurred to me yesterday that since I finished the last A4 sketchbook, I have lost a little bit of momentum, and the new A4 sketchbook and I are not having the same relationship as the old one. I don’t know if that makes sense. It probably doesn’t, I mean they are essentially the same…
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Resistance Every Day
I show up here every day, even if I only have a teeny tiny piece of art that is the sole creative output of my day. I show up because once I have been here and posted ‘this is what I made today’ I know that I have beaten fitever wur cauin the deil the…
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Blue Hair Day
Today I did some studio housekeeping, tidying overgrown piles, washing some gesso brushes, putting manky water in the cat litter bucket. Very glamourous. Then I worked in some sketchbooks, and procrastinated about virtually everything, and it was not creative or productive procrastination, it was unadulterated overwhelm at the state of the world. Eventually I got…
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Crooked Street
Using some of my photographs from last week’s trip to Orkney as references, I did some painting in my sketchbook. I limited my palette to three colours and titanium white – phthalo turquoise, naples yellow red and permanent red violet light. I used one scratchy brush for the undersketch, and then one flat brush for…
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Thursday
We were on trains all day returning home, so it’s another wee sketch of a crooked street, this time I used one of the photos from our trip for reference, but simplified a little, mostly because I’m tired. Normal service resumes tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 222/300
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Wednesday
Today was a day with a LOT. I’m knackered. My mini sketch for the day is inspired by a street in Stromness. I took lots of photos for later, but this was drawn just from memory and imagination. Til the morn, Suzanne 221/300
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Apprehensive
I am preparing for a wee trip that will hopefully double-up as an artist date kind of thing, with some experiences to fill the well, alongside meeting familial obligations. I am avoiding my To Do List, and navigating executive dysfunction like a pro, so the fact I have painted at all is merely an example…
Thrummie Bizzum 