Tag: acrylic painting
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Skeleton Tree
I was browsing a some of my old photos today, looking for themes, ideas, or a small spark, and I came across some of my Skeleton Tree photos. There are lots of stories attached to these photos, and the place where the tree stood, and a deep attachment to a season or two of my…
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Three Hundred Days of Art
A little part of me can’t quite believe that I have done this, kept going and made such a significant change for myself. Another small part of me is still thinking I won’t finish the first thirty days, but here I am three hundred days in surveying the queendom of my inner landscape, and bits…
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Sponge Brush Portrait
I’m still playing with this reference from Unsplash that I like, and today I was playing with one of the paint colours I mixed the other day and a sponge brush. I’m really enjoying the sponge brushes just now. I also spent a lot of time trying to organise collage fodder, gel prints, and all…
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Colour Mixing
Carrying on with my colour mixing play the other day, I finished mixing the grid of colours for the sketchbook, and then I decided I wanted a set of nine colours, with a mix of lights, mids and darks. I spent some time mixing colours using the sketchbook palette as inspiration, and I now have…
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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…
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Colour Play
Playing with my homemade stay-wet palette and some colour mixing today. I find the stay-wet palette a little challenging because it has sides, and is therefore an enclosed and limited space, and this sort of requires a bit of structure and organisation of paint, and I am not sure I am built that way. But…
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Playing in my new space
I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…
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Colour Note
I spent a lot of time today organising books. I have a lot of books, but never too many. There’s no such thing. The problem, and it’s a nice problem to have, is that moving two large bookcases to my studio room means choices have to be made about what goes in those bookcases, and…
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Sketchbook Experiment
An odd little postcard from today’s creativity showing part of a page in my sketchbook where I am working out an idea, and experimenting with how I want to paint it. Til the morn, Suzanne 286/300
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Art Interrupted
I started working on this little canvas again today, just blocking in some values, and deciding what I want to do next. Unfortunately the migraine I thought might start yesterday made itself known today, and I’ve had a lovely blurry day. poo. Til the morn, Suzanne 284/300
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Exhibition
Today has been a LOT, and I may not sleep much lol. I am very pleased to say that my portrait of Gisèle Pelicot will be part of the Scottish Society of Artists 126th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. My painting will be in the 30×30 small works section. !!! I…
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Foreshortened
I have a stack of unused canvases that should be embarrassing, but they’re not. I do seem to have acquired an excess of little 6″ square ones, tho. I think they are a nice size for friends and family to pick up as gifts for me, and I am never, ever going to say no…
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