Suzanne Russell Art

  • Express Yourself

    Express Yourself

    Til the morn, Suzanne 430/500

  • Looking

    Looking

    The beauty of a timed exercise practise is the way it trains you to make choices about what to leave in, and what to leave out, to get to a resolved piece by the time the beeper beeps. The exercise isn’t entirely about that, though, it’s also just the practise of looking. Til the morn,…

  • Musing

    Musing

    Til the morn, Suzanne 428/500

  • Looking Down

    Looking Down

    Twenty minute sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 427/500

  • Eyes Up

    Eyes Up

    Ten minutes sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 426/500

  • Self Care

    Self Care

    Yesterday was A Lot, and not just the Supreme Court verdict, and the regression of rights, there were other things to process. Today I took a day off portraiture. I still intend to complete my 100 Day Project, but today needed to be a day of doing more playful stuff, so that’s what I did.…

  • WHUT

    WHUT

    My response to every sentence of the UK Supreme Court verdict today. WHUT? None of that bullshit is about “protecting women”. Fuck transphobia. Til the morn, Suzanne 424/500

  • Contrast

    Contrast

    That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500

  • This Week’s Theme Is…

    This Week’s Theme Is…

    Challenging expressions. Day51/100 I’m tempted to just stick with this one reference photo for the week, as I think I can get a lot out of this one. I’ve chosen a few for the week, tho, just to carry on with the experiment of planning and theming. I really wanted to be working on a…

  • Fifty Days Fifty Portraits

    Fifty Days Fifty Portraits

    Day 50 of the 100 Day Project and here are all fifty portraits. There was one portrait that I completed over two days because I was having a pain issue, and there was another day early on where I was so appalled at what I painted that I painted a second portrait, so I’m including…

  • Mood

    Mood

    Sketchbook practise twenty minutes portrait. More chat tomorrow. Til the morn Suzanne 420/500

  • Pearls

    Pearls

    With the exception of a few minutes around the eye, I used one large long flat for this, and it was a good challenge. Til the morn, Suzanne 419/500