Category: Studio Diary
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Linocut Pictish Beastie
Two coats of gesso have unified the texture collage on the canvas, and I left it to dry overnight. I’m obsessed with the muslin texture, but I haven’t started painting on it, so I may change my mind soon enough. I dug out my linocut bits and pieces and reacquainted myself with not gouging pieces…
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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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Stashing the Pretty
Much of today was about tidying and sorting and organising. It turns out when you buy a kilo of fabric remnants and fancy trims you have to find somewhere to store it. That task turned into a total overhaul of two shelving units so that things were easier to find, less dusty (!) and like…
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A Plan Comes Together-ish
There was a lot of pottering about with various things today, and the most photogenic is this one. I have nailed the printing and transparency aspect of this idea, and now I have to get the fiddly, very thin, very wet, very much wanting to cling to itself thing to land where I want it…
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Multiple Excitement
I’m excited about multiple things today. The first thing to note is that I cut another strip off that bolt of cotton canvas fabric I’ve had in my art/craft/hoard stash since the nineties and primed it. The pieces I primed a while back are still waiting for paint, but they are smaller, and I’m going…
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Planting Ideas and Things
I had an unplanned stint in the garden today because a pot luck box of Sedum cuttings arrived a day early. I’m not complaining. The box was stuffed with way more plants than I was expecting, and I’m not complaining about that either. Some of them are so tiny, but they are easy to get…
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Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)
I was thinking I had probably exhausted the options for this deep-dive, other than honing my skills with the application process, and I was thinking I was satisfied with my discoveries. Then I had an idea. I wasn’t even thinking about art, or this process, or anything at all to do with art, I was…
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Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina
I’m back in the studio today, but yesterday definitely filled the well, and there are lots of ideas, and I’m making notes of them, because I’m incredibly talented at generating ideas and forgetting them within a day. I’m still playing with image transfer ideas and techniques, specifically inkjet print image transfers. The portrait prints I…
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Drawing A Badger
I did not make art in my studio today. The shock. The horror. Instead we went along to Silverburn Park for a drawing class organised for Scottish Badger Week. We got there an hour early so we could find a quiet spot and do some field sketching, which you will probably know I really need…
Thrummie Bizzum 