Category: Sketchbook Practise
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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…
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Challenging angle
Challenging angles are my brain food. Til the morn, Suzanne 215/300
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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
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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…
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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…
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Non Day
Mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 209/300
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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…
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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…
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