Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Thoughts on Critic, Creativity plus Banksy
I spent a lot of time today journaling, and looking through my sketchbooks, and thinking about my creative process, and then I had a real struggle getting to painting. I listened to what was going on internally, and it was all very negative about how I had wasted my time, and failed to be creative…
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Purple Toes
I had a fun day in the studio today. I spent around an hour working in my mark making sketchbook while on a Zoom meeting with some other artists. I filled three sketchbook spreads with a variety of marks and I have some interesting ideas for taking things a bit further. I was colour-mixing after…
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Incredible ;)
I was doing some colour mixing with a red that I don’t often use, and the results were, shall we say, interesting. I remain unconvinced, and the tube of red paint may remain rarely used. I may have a different view in the morning. I do my best not to waste paint, so I used…
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Limited Brushstrokes
Changing up the way I paint is good for my brain, especially my brain after a migraine, or, arguably, in late-stage migraine. For this exercise I decided to limit my brushstrokes and mark-making, and I was working quickly. I think this would be interesting to try at a slower pace too, and a totally different…
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Luscious Layering
Today was a really good painting day working on lots of different things, different sketchbooks, and just lots of fun. I found a landscape sketchbook that I think Himself gifted me, and decided that it has obviously been sitting waiting for this day. The opening spread is now adorned with a fairly good representation of…
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A Face Is a Landscape
Me, my shitty brushes, a sketchbook, and I. Painting profiles are harder than I think, but I enjoyed the way I built this one in a probably unconventional way. More a jigsaw of shapes, starting with swirling mark-making for the hair, and extending from there, than a structured placement. One of my intentions with this…
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Painting Shapes Meditation
This is a really good reference for pulling your brain out of the world and into just looking and seeing and trying to make sense of the shapes. I have that privilege, many don’t. Til the morn, Suzanne 561/600
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Snatching Time
Painting while dog-sitting. He’s a bit of a nervous Beastie, so I was aware things might be interrupted, but he’s been very good. I got another version of the pose I painted yesterday, and a quick gesture sketch (below). I packed the wrong tube of blue for my limited palette, but I’ve decided that I…
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Loch Lee and Figure Study
Today was a long, filling-the-well day. We travelled to Glenesk and walked around 6 miles altogether in fairly hot weather that was forecast as cooler and a chance of rain. We did get some sprinkles of rain, and the clouds came in about, but it was still hot. You may have picked up that I…
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Hot Dry Paint
Another few days of limited supplies far from home, and unexpected very hot weather. The paint was drying on the gel plate before I could even get it to the paper, so I kind of gave up. Til the morn, Suzanne 558/600
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Persevere
Persevering with this reference, and the drawing on the left is where I felt I got the hand, but I wasn’t happy with the face. The drawing on the right I like the overall proportions much more, but I like the previous hand more. It’s an easy fix, especially if I decide to paint this…
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Too Neutral
I’m finding it interesting that this reference is challenging me. The hand I am struggling with is in a fairly neutral pose, and I think that’s what’s challenging me. I’ve been doing lots of hands in ballet poses, and I guess I have more affinity with them, then this neutral pose. Or something. I’m enjoying…
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