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Suzanne Russell Art

  • First Pass Keep Going

    First Pass Keep Going

    Yesterday’s photo appears much more blue than the actual canvas, and my phone seems to have a tendency to do that. Today’s pic is much more like it for the background. This is the first pass of this painting. I’m just playing with the limited palette I chose, and blocking in values. The reference photo…

  • It’s Just Paper

    It’s Just Paper

    Paint made it onto canvas today, and I have a first sketch down. I realised today that my brain had somehow started subscribing to the idea that I must paint deeply meaningful paintings, and that I was treating canvases as if they are made of gold. Fascinating the way the inner critic can weedle its…

  • Patterns

    Patterns

    I’m still playing with ideas for the painting I want to do, and working things out in my sketchbook. I got some new stencils today, so a couple of them went straight into the mix. I think I just need to put some paint on the canvas and get on with it tbh. Til the…

  • Golden Ratio

    Golden Ratio

    A bit of an odd here’s what I did today photo, but it’s kind of the most coherent page from all the bits and pieces from today. I am piecing together ideas from recent work to put in a painting, so this is just my sketchbook page reference for composition ideas. It’s not very exciting,…

  • Mini Monoprints

    Mini Monoprints

    I’m using a little 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbook with my 2×3″ gel plate. (yes, I’m bilingual as far as measurements go, never going to change). It started out as a project in the Things To Do When Creativity Seems Blocked – one of several tricks that I try to remember as good ways to get…

  • Second Pass Colour Play

    Second Pass Colour Play

    I continued playing with this little painting, adding some colour in a very limited palette, and using fluorescent magenta as the mother colour. Til the morn, Suzanne 242/300

  • Happy Accident

    Happy Accident

    I’m not feeling wordy today, or perhaps it’s more that if I start, I won’t stop. This is a painting I started today, and I love the happy accident of the daisy in the eye. Til the morn, Suzanne 241/300

  • Horrific

    Horrific

    I did not paint anything that I want to share today. I’m not even sure it counts as painting. Last night I watched the footage livestreaming from the north of Gaza as Israel bombed a hospital. I watched as people who could not leave their beds were burned alive, watching the flames engulfing them, while…

  • Not Me

    Not Me

    This not a self-portrait, it’s a painting from a painting combined with looking in the mirror. It looks nothing like me, other than a flicker of the emotion I have been feeling when looking at the feeds this weekend. Til the morn, Suzanne 239/300

  • Showgirl

    Showgirl

    I did some figure drawing practise today, and I quite like the way this sketch turned out. I was using a larger brush than usual, which made some of the details quite challenging, but that’s the fun of it. Til the morn, Suzanne 238/300

  • Mirrie Dancers

    Mirrie Dancers

    I’m still obsessed with gel printing from orange bags, and obsessed in general with my little 3×5″ gel plate. Aside from playing with that, and more work filling my little gel plate sketchbook, I made a face in my A4 book. So many ways to make a face – realistic portraiture, or using a reference…

  • Comfort Zone

    Comfort Zone

    Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300