Suzanne Russell Art
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Travel Day
Home again. It’s actually colder here than it is up north, pfft. Luckily my model for this quick sketch is a reference photo, so she doesn’t mind. I love being away to fill the well, but I love coming back to get in amongst my supplies again. I wanted to share today’s interview with Tracey…
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Look at the tree, not the sketch
A terrible photo of a mediocre sketch of a sculpture of a woman named Flora, but not THE Flora. I took some photos, so I might draw her again. Today’s adventure included browsing Leakey’s Bookshop, which is a non-negotiable on these trips. The art books section is huge, and a lot of them are in…
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Sparkle Castle
It’s snowing as I type, but it’s late in the evening, and the snow arrived around 12 hours later than forecast. We ended up with a glorious day, and the first blue sky and sunshine I have seen for about a month. We wandered round to Inverness Castle, since it recently re-opened following a refurbishment…
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Up North
Waking at 4:45am to get ready and down to the train station for the first train out seems like a long time ago. Three trains and we arrived in Inverness mid-morning to, surprisingly, no rain. The forecast was wonderfully wrong. We took the opportunity to go for a walk, since we don’t know how the…
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How To Art and things
Over the past few evenings I read How To Art by Kate Bryan. I have been trying a new evening routine whereby I do not take my phone to bed, and instead I read. This tiny change has already improved my wellbeing. I had to buy an alarm clock, because I have for years been…
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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Staring Selfie Layers
I made this background yesterday, and today I went with the same selfie that I was playing with yesterday. It’s a photo that is intentionally a bit weird, so the staring is capturing what’s in the photo. I wiped off the neck and shoulders because I didn’t like what was happening, so that’s why it…
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Disrupt Me
Playing with disruption and self portraiture today. I set up three sheets of A2 cartridge paper and took a photo of my face and used that as a reference. The idea isn’t to chase a likeness, it’s to experiment with disrupting the face and seeing what happens, and what I like and what I do.…
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Round and Round
Things got a bit carried away today as my washing machine decided to get stuck in a perpetual cycle and I spent an inordinate amount of time watching the thing going round and round hoping I had managed to coax it into a different cycle that would result in it beeping and letting me open…
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Second Pass Brushy Layers
This one is coming along nicely. I’ve been using one of those cheap, shitty brushes in the largest size to build the layers on this, but I’m not at the stage of bringing in a smaller, but still scratchy and shitty, one for a bit of detail. The palette I’m using is limited to phthalo…
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Brush Stash
The stash of new brushes on the right are to expand my oil painting brush collection, which is kind of a commitment to doing more oil painting. I don’t usually post new supplies pics, but look at the the tiny oil paper block I ordered, it’s so cute! I’m aware that I do things like…
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