Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Three Brushes Three Sketches
Today I have been working in my sketchbook doing multiple sketches of the same reference photo. I have mostly been using my trusty caput mortuum sketch blend, although I did do one sketch in graphite. This is a Let’s Face It class, and the reference is the artist herself, so I’m setting myself the challenge…
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Patterns
I’m still playing with ideas for the painting I want to do, and working things out in my sketchbook. I got some new stencils today, so a couple of them went straight into the mix. I think I just need to put some paint on the canvas and get on with it tbh. Til the…
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Golden Ratio
A bit of an odd here’s what I did today photo, but it’s kind of the most coherent page from all the bits and pieces from today. I am piecing together ideas from recent work to put in a painting, so this is just my sketchbook page reference for composition ideas. It’s not very exciting,…
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Not Me
This not a self-portrait, it’s a painting from a painting combined with looking in the mirror. It looks nothing like me, other than a flicker of the emotion I have been feeling when looking at the feeds this weekend. Til the morn, Suzanne 239/300
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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…
Thrummie Bizzum 