Tag: 100dayproject2024
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Speechless
100 Day Project Day 52 I watched the Netflix documentary The Anti-Social Network last night, and it’s a wild ride in terms of condensing the reasons we are where we are in terms of truth and discourse. I highly recommend it. I’m thinking about it a lot as a watch the Scottish political scene descending…
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Monday
100 Day Project Day 51 I showed up. I did some figure studies. I bear witness to the footage coming out of the remains of al-Shifa hospital, and the horror exacted on those people. I cannot respect anyone who supports this, or who argues that the people doing this, or those supplying them with the…
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Fifty
100 Day Project Day 50 I’ve reached day 50 of this blogging and arting project, and that feels like a bit of an achievement. Today is just a quick first layer of a face in my sketchbook, because that’s enough some days. If you have been following along for these fifty days, what are you…
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More Gesture Drawing
100 Day Project Day 48 Today’s practise included more gesture drawing in my sketchbooks. I am currently working in an A5 spiral bound book, and a cheap A4 hardcover thing I found on a shelf. The paper in that one isn’t great, so I coat it with sludge gesso before I use it for painting.…
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Gesture drawing and mist
100 Day Project Day 47 There really wasn’t a lot of time for art today, although there was probably more time than I’m letting on. Ha. That said, I did go to my sketchbook to do some practise, because this is a daily habit, whether it is minutes or hours, and all my art making…
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Thirty Minutes
100 Day Project Day 46 Sometimes all you have is a short window of opportunity, and it becomes a choice whether to take the risk and fail, and then have a choice about whether to bereal, or skip a day. A lot of online art sharing is art sharing, not practise sharing, and I think…
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Raw umber and charcoal
100 Day Project Day 45 In a wild attempt to produce three class paintings so I can catch up with Let’s Face It, I worked on two paintings today. I had prepped both the substrates the other day, so I had no excuses, but you can be rest-assured that all manner of procrastination was undertaken.…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
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Summertime Blues
100 Day Project Day 43 Summertime officially started today, with the loss of an hour as we spring forward. I was actually awake when my phone reset the time at 1am, which just made the whole thing much more of a shock than usual. It’s just an hour, but it really is confusing in ways…
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Toothiness
100 Day Project Day 41 I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been…
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New Sketchbook Not Sorry
100 Day Project Day 40 I’ve been working in my sketchbooks today. I’m currently drawn to an A5 spiral bound one that is filling up nicely. I also pulled out a blank A4 sketchbook, and started it off with four pages of painting. I recently bought two different sketchbook roughly this size, three if you…
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