Tag: 100dayproject
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Scenes
100 Day Project Day 67 I started the day feeling excited about getting stuck into my new painting, but then the socials had me glued to footage of the escaped horses from the Household Cavalry running about London, with the grey (white) one covered in blood. The fact the clock at Westminster (Elizabeth Tower, Big…
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FTP
100 Day Project Day 66 I really enjoyed the way this altered book spread came together. I’m not sure if it is finished, but that is the beauty of sketchbook/altered book/art journal pages, they can always be added to. It’s done for now. Perhaps it was easier to come to that decision because I put…
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Layers
100 Day Project Day 65 Something I love about doing a layered mixed media piece is the way the end result is never known until you get to it. The process of adding and pushing back, and adding and pushing back, until an area, or the whole painting, is resolved. This painting is an older…
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Bad Hair Day
100 Day Project Day 64 There’s a lovely post circulating the socials at the moment that tells the story of a studio who sacked artists and hired ai prompters to do the job instead, and they couldn’t do it. Their prompts didn’t generate quality work, and when they were sent back to make changes, of…
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Poop
100 Day Project Day 63 I ruined a drawing today. I’m not joking, I might as well have wiped sewage all over it. In fact it kind of looks like I did. I was incredibly frustrated with it, and the way the painting was going, and I have literally shelved it. I am not amused.…
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The Cat’s Whiskers
100 Day Project Day 62 I finished a painting today, and I know how I feel about that. I started another project that involved journaling that brought up some unexpected darkness, and I know how I feel about that. I know how I feel about all the things that are happening in the world today,…
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No Time, Still Showed Up
100 Day Project Day 61 Other things had to be done today, so very limited time for art. I did show up to do a preliminary sketch for another portrait class. I don’t know if I’ll use this sketch, but it’s the art I made today, so I’m posting it. Til the morn, Suzanne
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Artist Influence
100 Day Project Day 60 I confess that I got a new book today, or at least new to me. It’s a retrospective of the Scottish artist Pat Douthwaite, an artist I am currently obsessed with. Douthwaite trained as a dancer, then became an artist in later life, which is just absolutely right up my…
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Cat Girl
100 Day Project Day 59 I have been procrastinating about this painting for ten days. I had the substrate prepped, and the figure sketched, and now I see from scrolling back through this blog that it really is ten days. If I had a pound for every reason and excuse – they are all excuses,…
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From Nothing
100 Day Project Day 58 Happy Monday, or as close to something resembling happy as you can get. If your Monday is as blue as fuck, or some sort of dirty shade of mud you weren’t meaning to mix with paint, that’s valid too, don’t feel pressure from my greeting to be anything other than…
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Developing Photos
100 Day Project Day 57 A little thing I have been doing recently is using my own landscape photos as references in my sketchbook practise. Sometimes it’s an exercise in colour and tonal value, and sometimes it’s about observing perspective, and sometimes it’s about rejecting parts of what is in the photo to make a…
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Two Colour Limit
100 Day Project Day 56 What happens if I make a colour palette using only two colours plus black and white? I started by selecting one colour, and I set myself up for some fun with fluorescent magenta, because why not? I decided to go with a green so I was in complimentary colour territory,…
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