Suzanne Russell Art
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Unsettled
I am not settling in to my temporary art space at all, so I’m giving myself space to just do a sketch in my A5 sketchbook as my daily art until I get into a groove. My lodger lurcher is much more important, especially since he’s a senior boy, and you never know if this…
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Nearly!
Nearly missed a day! Just made it. Phew. Til the morn, Suzanne 127/200
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Daily Sketch
It will take me a couple of days to get into the swing of having the Murphy dog here, and temporarily rearranging around walks, sniffing expeditions, meals, his old man medication schedule, and of course doggie bosies. The art will fit back in, it just takes a bit of adjustment on my part. I will…
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Quick Sketch
Not much time for art today, but I made time for a quick sketch of a Gannet, one of my favourite birds. I’m dog-sitting again, so I have a wee friend for a couple of weeks. Yay! Til the morn, Suzanne 125/200
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Do you?
Do you name your sketchbooks? I think I am going to think about naming my sketchbooks, especially since I am writing about them, and ‘A5 Seawhite’ is kind of boring. Anyway, I took a day off hares, not least because I had an idea that requires another watercolour block to rotate, and that won’t arrive…
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Overthinking
I was really pleased with yesterday’s hare painting, and it gave me lots of ideas, and today I got set up with my timer, which is my new favourite motivator, and then I observed how tight I was. I set up a watercolour block, so better paper than the gessoed cartridge paper that is just…
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Hare Timing
Yesterday I tried setting a timer, and using that to keep me focused on making art and not getting distracted, and it did work, but if I’m being honest with myself, yesterday there was still a lot of faffing. Today I set my timer for one hour, plus five minutes to give myself time to…
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Will A Timer Work?
I’ve been thinking about my practise, and imagining the ways I could develop my practise now that I am creating every day, and comfortable with sharing my practise no matter how bad the art is. Side note – I’m getting over thinking about my art in terms of bad art versus good art, because all…
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Loose Hare
Painting from my sketches is something I am having fun with just now. It’s a really fun way to loosen up, and find character in drawings, or find a different character from the first drawing. It’s also a really handy practise on those Don’t Know What To Paint days – just grab a sketchbook, and…
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Rotating Sketchbooks
I spent the day in several sketchbooks today, rotating as things dried. This is a process I enjoy, and find it results in ideas springing out of nowhere. This happened today, but the first version of the idea required my printer for a part of it, and my printer wasn’t playing. It’s the first time…
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I Can’t Paint
The mantra reverberates around my brain, sometimes it’s so much a part of the background noise, that I don’t even hear it. It’s ingrained. It has different clothes, sometimes. Sometimes it tells me I can’t do this, or I can’t do that, or I shouldn’t do this, or that. It’s every version of Not Good…
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Gel Plate Painting
I don’t really have much to say today, other than someone has treated me very poorly, and I am quite upset about it. I had absolutely zero appetite for painting, but I managed to do a gel plate pull into my sketchbook. It’s a technique I have tried before, and it really needs a longer…
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