Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Skull and Red
It’s very weird accepting the death of Murphy even though I knew that it was not going to be long. I just knew. He wasn’t my dog, he only came to stay here for his holidays, and odd weekends here and there, but he was tied up in the story of my own dog who…
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Inspired By Old Sketchbook Page
I’ve probably said this before, but there are so many videos on social media flipping through perfect and beautiful sketchbooks, and that’s all very relaxing to watch, but my sketchbooks are a clusterbourach of discombobulation, especially the older stuff. That’s fine, there are all sorts of ways of filling a book, and although I have…
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Dour Mood
Til the morn, Suzanne 179/200
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Sunday Splash
I love watercolours. I hate watercolours. I love watercolours. I don’t know how to use watercolours. I know how to use watercolours, I just don’t practise. I have a Let’s Face It class from months ago that is haunting me. I really want to nail it, but it is just not happening. The artist is…
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Critic Versus Paintbrush
The remnants of my recent migraine were crawling around my brain today, combined with not enough sleep brought on by staying up too late last night watching art YouTube and wondering if I am going to go on the rollercoaster that is the learning curve of making vlogs. I’m not sure if it’s me, really.…
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Two Colour Play Portrait
Today I opened my insanely ancient sketchbook that I would really like to finish with no idea what I was going to do, so I stared at the blank page for a few minutes. Sometimes I think gardening and painting involve a very similar process of standing and staring at things until something in the…
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Analogous
The absolute privilege of being able to shut myself off from the world for a couple of hours and just play with paint, make absolutely terrible portraits, and have my biggest existential dilemma be whether I want to be a person who has clean stencils, or a person who has gorgeoulsy grungey stencils is not…
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Monday
I just wasn’t feeling it today at all. It’s not surprising, and I am not going to be hard on myself, because the world is overwhelming just now for those of us who are paying attention. I did do art, even though I just couldn’t settle down to anything, but it felt like a desperate…
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Sunday Sketch
Interesting that my interpretation comes out looking much more stern than the vulnerability and softness of the reference, but then I have been watching footage of white supremacists setting fire to a hotel with human beings they trapped inside, and it was in England, not Gaza. So that’s all I have today. Til the morn,…
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World Gone Mad Do Art
I had a really good day in my studio room today, a really fun day, despite everything going on out there. One of the things I did was revisit this drawing from earlier in the year. I love this reference, and I love my drawing, and I have never felt the urge to revisit this…
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Playing With Marks I Made
Neocolor IIs in my sketchbook, making faces incorporating one of the clusters I made during yesterday’s mark making, and adding to it. Til the morn, Suzanne 167/200
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Change It Up Mark Making
I ended yesterday’s blog thinking about a book I need, and acknowledging that I received three new art books for my birthday. One of those books has been carried around with me from studio room to sofa to bedside ever since it arrived. I am smitten. The book is Drawing and Painting People A Fresh…
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