Category: Studio Diary
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Elphin Is Political
Someone might suggest that yesterday’s boat painting was too political, and they’d prefer I stick to badgers. I’ve had exactly those sorts of things said to me, so it’s not really about “might”. Badgers are political too, sad to say. Their very existence and right to life has been the subject of political debate for…
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Painting Elphin
Sketchbook painting using one of my photos of Elphin the taxidermy badger that I took at the wee sketching group event a few weeks ago. I’m playing with colour, and using turquoise as the almost mother colour because, like the badger, I am a creature of habit. I was using one of my gel plates…
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Thingamyjig Joy
It’s not a very exciting photo today, but I made a sketchbook using the new thingamyjig I got a while back, and it makes the hole punching part of bookbinding about a million times faster with no pfaffing. I love it. The sketchbook in the photo is an interesting construction. The cover paperis folded into…
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Hare On Canvas WIP
(I’m playing around with the theme settings, but I’m not settled on which change I want to make, or if I want to make a change at all. It has all gone a bit purple.) I did a fair bit of procrastinating and painting other things, backgrounds, before I got stuck in with this. I…
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Wet Hare
Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…
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Texture Choices
There was a lot of playing and testing and whatnot went on today, but it’s not exactly coherent or photogenic, so here’s a snippet of the canvas board I was testing ideas on next to the hare I painted yesterday. It was a productive day, even if it doesn’t look like it, and decisions have…
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Pyrrole Orange Hare
I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…
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Mixed Marks
I added more texture to my very textured portrait today. I used marble dust, which I have never used before, so this is very much a do it and see what happens. I am not by any stretch of the imagination and old master, although my left knee may well be, but not at painting,…
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Riveting, cutting, punching and stabbing.
Minor painting happened, correcting a couple of the values on my portrait, and there was an attempt to recreate an old texture painting. I can’t remember how I did some of it, and there’s no notes, so there’s another top tip – make notes, don’t do what I do. I upgraded my tool stash today,…
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Going Grey
I have been procrastinating, and I procrastinated again today. In fairness, my procrastination took the form of other creative pursuits, rather than inventing housework, or doomscrolling, but it was still procrastination. I’m not even sure why I was procrastinating, because I knew exactly what my next steps were, with the exception of what I wanted…
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Gel Prints on Denim
I’m going through the Decisions Stage of my painting, so I didn’t some swatching and will do more tomorrow. The rest of my time was spent sorting my fabric stash, and doing a very basic inventory in my notes app. I have some ideas bubbling away, and so I wanted to reacquaint myself with what…
Thrummie Bizzum 