Category: Studio Diary
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Sole Perspective
This sketchbook started out as a project on practising painting hands, and evolved into hands and feet, and figures with either hands, feet, or both. I was flipping through it today, and it’s so much more than that, because there’s also colour explorations, materials explorations, technique explorations, value, shape, proportions and perspective. I’m noting that…
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Art All Day Yay
I had a full-on art day today, just hours and hours of pottering and creating. I started out with a figure sketch in my A3 hands and feet sketchbook. I got the basics down, and then I had a Zoom session doing short, timed studies of landscapes with Orla Stevens. I am not much practised…
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It’s pink but it’s white
I have this tube of fluorescent pink acrylic that is almost finished, and it’s a few years old, so I’m on a mission to finish the tube. I smeared it on this sketchbook page, where it is less likely to be a fugitive, but it makes working my values kind of interesting because it is…
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A bit of this and that
I took a photo of some of my recent things that are sitting around the studio room, as it looked kind of interesting together. I edited in a couple of pics of today’s sketchbook spreads as they’re more interesting than my art tables – my studio is not a curated, instagrammable space, and I had…
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger…
I have gone big. Properly big. I’ve had the A1 paper for a while, but never got around to getting a big board. Until today. As soon as it arrived I abandoned the sketches in my A4 book, grabbed a 3″ brush, and tried painting a giant hare. It’s not the best hare I’ve ever…
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Changed My Mind
I decided not to obliterate the orange (yet) and just kept layering. I added in a bit of mixing with the red and the turquoise, which goes against the original plan, but I like it more. Lots to do, but happier with it than I was yesterday. Til the morn, Suzanne 598/600
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Studio Things and Not Orange
This is on a canvas board, and so far I am mostly happy with it, but I am changing the orange tomorrow, because it’s making me itch. Other things that happened today include opening a box from Jackson’s, yay. There was also the culmination-ish of a palette experiment, a new A4 sketchbook started, and a…
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Painting Feet But Different
I spent a bit of time rearranging my studio today, partly in response to what happened with this large A1 sheet of paper. I had it flat on the floor to spread gesso, then some acrylic paint, and because I was a little tight for space, I had stepped on the page and got paint…
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Foot Thing
I spent some time today rearranging a few of my shelves, moving things that I use into more accessible spaces, and less useful things out of the way. I found a few things I had forgotten about, and I should probably do a shelf emptying task once a month just to reacquaint myself with things.…
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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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Sunday Batching
The only way to decide if something is going to work is to try it out, which is what’s happening on these canvas boards. I was trying to get the gel plate into play today but either the heat or the humidity scuppered that plan. These are very messy, lots more to do, but the…
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Hand In My Sketchbook
More fun with hands today. I pulled out a bunch of art supplies that I haven’t used in a while, and mixed things up a bit. There’s a chinagraph pencil, a gel pen, woodies, sharpies, watercolour pencils, neocolor IIs. Playing a lot with the supplies, and using swirly gestural marks, and having fun being loose.…
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