Suzanne Russell Art
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It’s Just Paint
I remember when getting the Tories out meant getting the Tories out. It no longer does. They’re wearing a different coloured ribbon, tho, woop woop. I wrote a long political post, and then condensed it down to the above. There you have it. We aren’t headed in a good direction. Anyway, I got a bit…
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Practise Makes Progress
Today I pulled out my A4 sketchbook and plastered some gesso onto some pages. They probably don’t need the gesso for what I planned to do, but spreading gesso on a page is as much of a ritual and a signal as it is a specific requirement. It tells you something is happening. Even though…
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Pushing Back
Today was Day 1 of trying to reset my routine again, after my adorable lodger went home. I am not good at switching routines, so it will take me a few days to get back into the swing of things. This hasn’t been helped by an all day headache, meh. I did get back to…
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Mark Making
The house feels empty now my lodger has departed. Humph. I wasn’t feeling arty at all today, but we started returning things to their usual places so that I can jump back in tomorrow with my familiar set up. I did do a bit of mark-making in my Seawhite journal, on a page that already…
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Little Weirdos
Last day looking after Murphy today, and he’s going home tomorrow, so normal routines will return soon. Sometimes maintaining a habit is just doing the bare minimum. Til the morn, Suzanne 140/200
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Post Election Blues
We got the Tories out. Yay! Labour won, if you don’t look too closely at the details, but we think Starmer is a disaster in waiting. Scotland gave the SNP a bloody nose, that wasn’t unexpected, but was somewhat bloodied than expected. Frustrating and disappointing. Lots of bigots lost seats, but England returned some fash,…
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Vote
General Election to the UK Parliament today. Fourteen years of Tory abuses, corruption, and siphoning of public money into private hands. The Labour Party will win, and they will not deliver on the Change they promise in any significant way. It’s the most depressing and demoralising vote of my life. Til the morn, Suzanne 138/200
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Divergent Referencing
I saw a conversation online the other day that I keep thinking about. I wasn’t part of the conversation, I just read it, and then thought a lot about it. Someone had posted a painting they had done using a reference, and they had included the reference, and a bit about how they had interpreted…
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Five Minute Figure
This is a challenging reference, and I’ll probably give it a few more attempts, but this is today’s sketch. Might get some painting done tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 136/200
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For The Love of Murph
A worrying few days as the senior pooch we have been looking after started refusing food, including the ham wrapped meds he needs to take. I am not kidding, I did barely anything on Saturday other than sit and watch him breathing, praying that I wasn’t going to be faced with a horrible situation. I…
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Sunday Scribble
Daily sketch… sculpting a face from scribbles and continuous drawing. Til the morn, Suzanne 134/200
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Sad Horse
I’m trying very hard not to freak out because the senior dog I am dogsitting has gone off his food, and I can’t get food or meds into him. He is drinking water, but not a lot. He seems to have an upset tummy, so hopefully it will pass, but it’s getting quite worrying. He’s…
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