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Suzanne Russell Art

  • Five Minutes Hare

    Five Minutes Hare

    Time is short today, still showed up. Til the morn, Suzanne 116/200

  • Pinktastic

    Pinktastic

    I always have an odd day recalibrating after visitors, even if the main visitor has four legs. A change of routine, even just for three days, takes me a minute to come back from. With that in mind, I’m being kind with myself for not getting much at all done today, other than scrolling in…

  • Hare Brained

    Hare Brained

    My lodger has departed *sniff* I need no presents or rewards for dog-sitting, but a beautiful sketchbook was given to me anyway, and I seem to need a lot of sketchbooks. Ha. This one is 120gsm paper, so I’m inspired to just use it for graphite sketching. It’s 9×12″ so it’s a nice size for…

  • Wildflowers

    Wildflowers

    Happy Sunday I don’t have a lot of chat today, mostly because I had a lively night of insomnia, and I’m knackered. We are still dog-sitting, and on one of our daunders I spotted a nice clump of purple Granny’s Bonnets sharing space with some dainty Cow Parsely, and so that’s what I sketched in…

  • Art on the Sofa

    Art on the Sofa

    My wee bam, who is my parent’s dog, is lodging for a couple of nights. He’s a senior boy, and now comes with a bag of medications and instructions. I try not to think about whether this might be a last visit with us, but the thought crosses my mind. I absolutely treat him like…

  • Seeing Red Has Value

    Seeing Red Has Value

    I’m having a poor mental health day today. I know exactly why that is, and I know that it will pass, it’s just a thing that happens the day before a Thing happens. It’s not hormonal, it’s another Thing. When this happens, everything else is magnified, and it doesn’t take much to set of a…

  • Clowning Around

    Clowning Around

    Yesterday I read that Meta scraped everyone’s images for their AI enshittification before they offered the opt-out, and the opt-out is only available to folk in the EU. The opt-out doesn’t appear to work for me on Instagram, and given Scotland was dragged out of the EU against our will, I don’t know if it…

  • Finding the Switch

    Finding the Switch

    One of those days where I procrastinated all day about painting, and thinking I was on the verge of breaking my streak… I pulled out my Seawhite sketchbook and did some mark-making across random pages. It’s starting to feel lived-in, and a couple of spreads are starting to look like interesting backgrounds. After that I…

  • Caught in Motion

    Caught in Motion

    This week’s Let’s Face It class is by Juna Biagioni, and I just adore her. The objective of the lesson was creating a portrait of a figure in motion, and I decided to go my own way with the reference image, and use one I have sketched previously, because I thought the messy, energetic monoprinting…

  • Monotype Monday

    Monotype Monday

    Monday is Let’s Face It class day, and this week it’s a Juna Biagioni monoprinting exercise. I love monoprinting, whether it’s gel printing or using other fun techniques, so this is my comfort zone. I’ve chosen an image I’ve sketched from before, and I have the permission of the photographer to use his photo as…

  • Sketchbook Sunday

    Sketchbook Sunday

    Rotating sketchbooks as pages dry is one of my favourite ways of working, although sometimes the day doesn’t seem to have much to show for it. Both my junk journal and my Seawhite A5 are books where I do random layers here and there throughout the book, and at some point a page or spread…

  • New Phone Bleurgh

    New Phone Bleurgh

    I have 104 blank painting surfaces that aren’t paper – stretched canvases, canvas boards, linen canvases, wooden panels and gesso boards. They vary in size from teeny tiny 4×5″ to 24×30″ and I have accumulated them over a long time. Some of them were lost in boxes in the garage, which is perhaps why more…