Suzanne Russell Art
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Happy Accidental Success Day
I was trying out a different way of getting an inkjet print onto a gel plate, and I am still testing the best way to achieve this, although I think I’ve narrowed things down to a successful process, but I need to test it out a few times. That said, I successfully transferred an inkjet…
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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…
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Hung Out To Dry
I pulled out every transparent, or potentially transparent, paper I could think of, and put them through the printer. They are all quite thin, so needed to be attached to a carrier paper, so there was some fiddling, and trimming going on. I’ve printed the same image with the same printer settings on all eight…
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Yummy Texture
Today I had a lot of fun making mixed media collage fodder using my gel plates. There’s lots of texture and I upcycled a bunch of used teabags I had been saving, and I’m really happy with the way most of it turned out. I got a nice surprise as the special paper I ordered…
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Collage Fodder and a Tap
Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering…
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Ongoing Experiment
I thought I had solved the bleeding ink conundrum, but it was not the ink setting on the printer that caused the bleed. I had fun doing this, even though it’s technically a failure. It’s not a failure, I don’t look at art experiments that way. I have two theories. The first is that maybe…
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Transparency Discrepancy
Today’s timed sketch was done using only the Blackwing 602 pencil and my shammy cloth. I think I prefer mixing the types of graphite. Now onto the main event – experimenting with the transparencies. Yesterday I printed my drawing onto tissue paper, and it was very fragile, but gave a promising result, even on a…
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Attitude Girl and Wonky Horse
Today’s twenty minute timed sketch. I don’t think I have quite caught her *look* but I’ll go again with this one as she has an energy that I want to capture. I was quite busy in the studio today, and had a more successful day than most have been recently. I started out with a…
Thrummie Bizzum 