Thrummie Bizzum

Category: Sketchbook Practise

  • Challenging angle

    Challenging angle

    Challenging angles are my brain food. Til the morn, Suzanne 215/300

  • Not A Swatch

    Not A Swatch

    I mean I was swatching and playing with colour today, but I needed to paint *something* other than pretty, wonky squares. Til the morn, Suzanne 213/300

  • Monday Moulachin

    Monday Moulachin

    Moulachin aboot nae muckle tae show fur it, ken. A bit of Scots language there, for you. Swatching acrylics again today, and isn’t it pretty? I really haven’t done this for a long time, and it shows. I’m doing this in part to kind of appraise what I have, because I have so many paints…

  • Sunday Swatching

    Sunday Swatching

    Some twat was prevaricating about how pointless swatching colours is, that it isn’t creative, and that it spoils sketchbooks, or wastes them, or some tripe. I was good, and I scrolled on past that negativity like a goddess fully in control of her impulses. Swatching is cerative practise. Of course it is. It tells you…

  • New Art Materials and Hares

    New Art Materials and Hares

    Late last night I had an idea which I immediately acted upon. I used my phone to resize one of my large hare wips and printed it, then using charcoal I made a transfer for my gel plate. I transferred it onto a small card, and I will see where it goes from there. It’s…

  • Non Day

    Non Day

    Mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 209/300

  • Reaching

    Reaching

    I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…

  • Horsing Around

    Horsing Around

    I was musing to myself the other day about the idea of blogging every day, and whether I wanted to continue after the 200th day or not. It seemed like a good cut-off point to decided whether to end my streak, or whether to carry on. I weighed up the pros and cons of doing…

  • Forgot How To Draw

    Forgot How To Draw

    I started a new sketchbook today, although there is one spread in there from June, but other than that it hasn’t been touched. It was interesting observing my thought process around a fresh, new book. It’s essentially the same book – an A4 casebound sketchbook. It’s another pretty inexpensive one, although the other one was…

  • Sketchbook Complete

    Sketchbook Complete

    I finished my A4 sketchbook today. I only started it in the last week of March, so that’s quite quick for me. I had no idea what direction this book was going to take when I started it, so it’s interesting to see what happened in there. Til the morn, Suzanne 203/300

  • Grey

    Grey

    I had some mars black left from something I was working on, so I mixed in some zinc white to make a non-chalky grey, and then tried some portrait practise with it. I used a different brush instead of my bristly ones, too see what I came up with. I wasn’t a fan of the…

  • Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence

    Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence

    Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…