Suzanne Russell Art

  • Pulling

    Pulling

    Today I got a wee parcel with two gel plates from a brand I haven’t tried before, so that was a nice way to get back into the studio and mess about with paints. I’ll have to give them a few sessions before I can decide whether they are like for like, or an improvement,…

  • Thursday

    Thursday

    We were on trains all day returning home, so it’s another wee sketch of a crooked street, this time I used one of the photos from our trip for reference, but simplified a little, mostly because I’m tired. Normal service resumes tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 222/300

  • Wednesday

    Wednesday

    Today was a day with a LOT. I’m knackered. My mini sketch for the day is inspired by a street in Stromness. I took lots of photos for later, but this was drawn just from memory and imagination. Til the morn, Suzanne 221/300

  • Tuesday

    Tuesday

    I took a small tiny sketchbook with me, and at 9pm I got a couple of little sketches done. This one is an old lamp that hangs in Perth railway station, which is one of the places we changed trains today. It’s been a long day, and we’ve travelled from the middle to the far…

  • Apprehensive

    Apprehensive

    I am preparing for a wee trip that will hopefully double-up as an artist date kind of thing, with some experiences to fill the well, alongside meeting familial obligations. I am avoiding my To Do List, and navigating executive dysfunction like a pro, so the fact I have painted at all is merely an example…

  • Quirky Cat

    Quirky Cat

    A ten -minute challenge to paint a quirky cat ornament study while limited to chunky scratchy brush and only two colours plus white. Also testing out some inexpensive A3 paper I picked up. It will do a trick, but I’ll buy something different next time. Til the morn, Suzanne 218/300

  • Deconstruction and Integration

    Deconstruction and Integration

    A large piece of brown packing paper has been annoying me for days, perhaps longer. I saved it to paint on later, then slotted it into a place where it just kept getting in the way. Today I tore it up, and put it back together to make painting surfaces. Deconstruction and integration. I used…

  • Make a Sotter

    Make a Sotter

    I paint every day and I pop a blog up every day, and that is the touchstone, the thing that is consistent in my world. The world is fucked up. The last time I really felt hope was ten years ago. The weight of my thoughts is heavy a lot of the time. Some of…

  • Challenging angle

    Challenging angle

    Challenging angles are my brain food. Til the morn, Suzanne 215/300

  • Messy

    Messy

    I got messy today, making backgrounds. I am just needing to scrape, and smear, and spread, and mix, and play without looking and observing and seeing and scrutinising. Til the morn, Suzanne 214/300

  • Not A Swatch

    Not A Swatch

    I mean I was swatching and playing with colour today, but I needed to paint *something* other than pretty, wonky squares. Til the morn, Suzanne 213/300

  • Monday Moulachin

    Monday Moulachin

    Moulachin aboot nae muckle tae show fur it, ken. A bit of Scots language there, for you. Swatching acrylics again today, and isn’t it pretty? I really haven’t done this for a long time, and it shows. I’m doing this in part to kind of appraise what I have, because I have so many paints…