Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Two Hundred
Given that I wasn’t expecting to last even thirty days at this malarkey, I’m going to reward myself for sticking with this for two hundred days. I think it might be considered a habit now. I did not, as it happens, complete that sketchbook to coincide with this. I had a feeling that I wouldn’t,…
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Tidying My Studio Room
I spent a good chunk of my creative time rearranging and organising my Studio Room today. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I can only figure that out by working in it. I moved another daylight lamp in, which is going to come into major play as winter continues creeping, and…
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Painted All Day
Today I filled four spreads in my sketchbook, and this is the most coherent snippet from those pages… The spreads are all working out ideas for a painting, but it’s still in the early stages and I have the sense that if I talk about it, that might dissipate the energy around it. As I’ve…
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Intentional and Interesting Mud
A really good art day today with lots of little experiments, and working on ideas for two paintings that I may or may not paint, but I have the ideas bubbling away, and I am enjoying the explorations. Above is one of my sketchbook pages, and it’s a loose sketch of an element from an…
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Developing Idea
I was rooting through my sketchbooks today looking for a drawing, and as I was flicking through one I finished earlier this year, I noticed how vibrant and varied it was compared with the current sketchbook I am working in. Now at the time when I finished it, I thought it was maybe a bit…
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Almost Blank Postcard
I have a LOT of things swirling in my brain today, but none of them are ready for fingertip processing. I painted, tho. Til the morn, Suzanne 194/200
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Unexpected
New art supplies rock, and they rock even more when someone just surprises me with them. The ceramic palette is one of those things I didn’t know I needed until it was handed to me. I love it. I do have a couple of others, but this one is a nice size, and it’s also…
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Ideas a bubbling
Today is an odd day because I have lots of sketches but I don’t want to publish them here as they are ideas for a painting, and I want the idea to continue brewing before I start sharing about it, if that makes sense. My warm-up sketch isn’t part of the project, so I’ll use…
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Pfft
The reference photo for this sketch is a picture of gentle serenity, and I sketched this while a man spent six hours repeatedly mowing the same small, tiny, patch of grass with a petrol lawnmower, so I think I definitely translated my mood into the sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 191/200
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Self Portait
Late last night I got a blast of inspiration and started prepping a canvas for today. I did say yesterday that my six little canvases might end up shunted again soon. I heard someone referring to this as ‘simmering’ and I suppose that’s a nicer way to put it, it’s definitely more constructive than ‘shunted’…
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Pot, Pottering and Portrait
I painted and pottered for several hours today, working in my sketchbook, and also carrying on with my six little canvases. All six now have gel transfers of the odd little face motif from one of my drawings, and I’ll start painting them tomorrow, unless my brain takes me off in some other direction, which…
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Monday Postcard
I spent some time swatching colours today, and mixing with a limited palette, and I also got stuck in with three gel plates rotating for a bit, but my favourite postcard from today is this sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 184/200
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