Tag: 100dayproject2024
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Painting from my own painting
100 Day Project Day 39 A fun way to practise is copying your own work, it’s a good exercise in trying to recreate colours, and shapes, and it’s also interesting to see where the energy of a piece goes on the next take. I was playing with this idea today by taking a recent face…
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Second Pass
100 Day Project Day 38 Today I set a timer for half an hour and worked in my sketchbook, and filled four pages. The first two pages look like normal human faces, and they arrived on the page without the use of models, or references. One of my favourite processes of creating something out of…
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Monday Musing
100 Day Project Day 37 I spent a lot of time in my sketchbooks today, and played with different materials: black fineliner, a grey lilac brushmarker from a set I never use, and my tub of mixed oil pastels that I also never use. I took stock of all my sketchbooks, just to try and…
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Sketchbook Practise
100 Day Project Day 36 I currently have two new sketchbooks on order despite not having recently finished one, and despite the fact I have a pile of blank sketchbooks of various sizes and paper quality. The problem is that none of those sketchbooks are the specific size and paper quality of the two on…
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Tonal Values Exercise
100 Day Project Day 35 I’m on a bit of a deep-dive with tonal values and colour. I know the theory, and the ways artists use it, and how it works. I just haven’t been consciously applying it to my own art making. I think that might be because I am always wrestling with the…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Old Copper and Rust
100 Day Project Day 32 It’s funny how a day that starts out in a clusterbùrach, and looks like it is going to be a write-off can be turned into a day that is good, and all it took was picking up a palette knife and scraping some paint around. I didn’t think I was…
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Productive Play
100 Day Project Day 31 Today I have been switching between several projects, anjoying being in The Zone, and tryingt to ignore whatever my perimenopausal body is throwing at me today. I’m definitely not going to be officially at menopause in March next year, ho hum. I was playing with coloured pencils doing some mini…
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Photo Finish and Pots
100 Day Project Day 30 I finished a class painting. Woo Hoo. It’s for the Let’s Face It course I am doing, and I am so pleased to have completed Week 8 on the day the Week 12 class drops. Ha. I lost the momemtum a bit around mid February, and I think that’s just…
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Sunday
100 Day Project Day 29 I heard about an artist who is making art despite being displaced from her home. Her name is Hala, and as far as I can tell, she is currently displaced to Rafah, in the south of Gaza. Today Netanyahu has stated that he still intends to invade Rafah, despite international…
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Procrastination Summited
100 Day Project Day 28 Today I was absolutely committed to finishing the oil painting class that has been hanging around forever. It didn’t need a lot done to finish it, it’s just that it ended up in the Procrastination Place, so every step ended up seeming more monumental than it really was. I enjoyed…
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Still Salty and Also Blue
100 Day Project Day 27 I have to put this in writing here, the world is terrifying. A lot of very rich people are doing very bad things, and some of them are doing it from a platform that is a public image portraying them as some sort of loving, inclusive hero, when what they…
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