Category: Studio Diary
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Handy
Storm Floris was not a pleasant accompaniment to the day, but we appear to have suffered no damage, other than one very upright stem of my very wild rose bush might be broken. I went back to yesterday’s portrait and did some correcting, then hung it with the growing collection of brown paper pieces. When…
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Get Over It
I procrastinated ALL day. I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head, but I just did not make it into the studio to paint until I had thirty minutes until Himself was due home. Ugh. I hate those kind of days. Eventually I rolled out some brown paper and made a mid tone…
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Just Paint
Yesterday’s post was ringing in my brain today, and I put a large-ish canvas up on the easel and just started playing. There was some sort of sketch on the canvas, but it wasn’t worth preserving, so I mixed some paint and smeared a ground on, and from there things got a bit interesting. Hares…
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A Wee Monkey
It’s always a good idea to decided you are going to paint a painting as a gift two days before you’re due to visit the people your intended gift is for. That’s what I did today, and I’m absolutely convinced it will not be finished by Sunday, but you never know. Yesterday I watched a…
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Rocking a Challenge
Happy Birthday to me. I received a message related to a planned walk: “Remember that you aren’t eligible to do the XXXXX walk unless you bring your own (tastefully painted) stone.” So I painted the joker’s dog, and we’ll see if they are willing to part with the rock, after all. In case they want…
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Swatching Gouache
I’m going through a phase of being a bit reticent about sharing things I’ve been working on. I’m usually not that bothered, and so this is an interesting phase to work through, and ponder what is going on. I found that when I was doing the 100 Day Project (which I stopped after 55 oil…
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Turquoise and Rain
At the risk of this blog morphing into a weather channel, today we had lots of rain, clouds, and cooler temps, in complete contrast to recent days, and it was glorious. It is still raining, and long may it continue. In the studio, I did a lot of pottering about shifting from one thing to…
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Good Hare Day
Both the temperature and the humidity dropped today, although it was still hot and humid by normal standards, but not as unbearable as the last few days. 100% humidity is just unfair. Anyway, I got a lot more time in the studio today, and got some good work done. I started out in the A5…
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Painting Without Seeing Colour
The heat continues to build, and I continue to grunch aboot it. I spent most of the day working in sketchbooks, in the coolest room in the house, but I did get the paint out to play with this portrait for a while. I plopped some colours on a gel plate and then experimented with…
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More Hot Paint
It’s even hotter than yesterday, so I should consider knocking the acrylic painting on the head for a while. I decided this after I was already committed to this piece, tho, so I kept going. The boring parcel of yesterday becomes the interesting basis for this exercise. I cut a piece off the cartridge paper…
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Hot Paint
I did a bit of rearranging today. I have a large box full of canvases in various sizes, but I never use them because the box had a wooded board on top that became a kind of shelf for other things. So I’ve shuffled things around a bit, and maybe I will start using more…
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Finished a Sketchbook
I finished a sketchbook today. I’m not sure how many pages it has, but it’s now full of graphite portrait drawings and sketches done in twenty minutes or less. The top right is the first page, and the centre bottom is the last page, which I sketched today, and the others are some of my…
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