Suzanne Russell Art
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Down Then Up
My mood from yesterday continued into today, and for some reason I decided to pull out the oil paints and start a portrait. Can I just say that when you are feeling down, painting somewhere in the safe zone might be the tonic you need. In other words, the first stage of today’s painting went…
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All Sorts of Crap
A very negative mental health day today. Sometimes that happens. I have a long list of things to whine about, some of them are justified, some that need a bit of self-reflection. I was not in the seeing place today, and that shows in this sketch. The win is that I made bad art instead…
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Red Net
16×12″ acrylic on 300gsm paper I think he’s finished, but you never know, I might go back in tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 704/800
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First Pass Portrait
There’s a lot to fix, but this is the first pass, and all the paper is claimed, and I am enjoying where it is going. Beards and facial hare are not my favourite thing, but the only way to get better is to get better. I’m using a Zorn palette with cadmium red as the…
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Crystal Ball
Fun sketch with paint in my new A3 figures sketchbook. A crystal ball might come in handy for those of us trying to work out which direction the nuclear bombs are going to come from. It’s not funny, and there are people in the world going through much, much worse, because of the same trio…
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Not Pretty
I really love the way the face ended up almost grotesque. I could have gone in and fixed it, made it pretty, but I prefer the disruption. Til the morn, Suzanne 701/800
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700 Consecutive Days
Day 700 It’s seven hundred days since I decided to do a hundred day project thinking I might make it to something like two weeks if I was lucky. I had, and still have, a very loose parameter – one art act and blog it. Most days I do more, but the bare minimum is…
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Terms and Conditions
I have been reading the Terms and Conditions of a couple of things I am thinking about submitting work to, and I have thoughts. Now, I have been seeing a few things online about juried shows and competitions, and how, of course, entrants are paying for the thing without much chance of being selected, and…
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Drawing and Feeling
Lots of things weren’t going the way I wanted them to, and I’m not sure this one did either, but it was more fun than the others. It’s an A1 sheet of paper, so it’s large. I held a paintbrush loosely, and using a twisting movement while moving the brush, I sketched my face. I…
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Realism and Abstract Tussling in my Brain
I finished this portrait in my A3 portrait practise sketchbook. I started her yesterday, and I wasn’t really liking the way she was going, but I came back to her today and brought her to a conclusion. A Cassandra for our times. No-one will listen to her. When I moved onto the second canvas, which…
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More Hands
Another varied day in my studio thanks to this idea of trying to do art before everything else. I wasn’t quite as disciplined this morning, but I caught myself and got back on track. I made a concertina sketchbook yesterday, and it’s brilliant. I did some fun play in there, and that got the juices…
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Getting Going
A dot for every thing I got done today. Well, maybe not quite, but I almost started with art, and once I got over the resistance and got started, I got loads of things done. It was a varied art day, with lots of things started, and I also got loads of non-art things done…
Thrummie Bizzum 