Tag: acrylic painting
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Clowning Around
Yesterday I read that Meta scraped everyone’s images for their AI enshittification before they offered the opt-out, and the opt-out is only available to folk in the EU. The opt-out doesn’t appear to work for me on Instagram, and given Scotland was dragged out of the EU against our will, I don’t know if it…
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Finding the Switch
One of those days where I procrastinated all day about painting, and thinking I was on the verge of breaking my streak… I pulled out my Seawhite sketchbook and did some mark-making across random pages. It’s starting to feel lived-in, and a couple of spreads are starting to look like interesting backgrounds. After that I…
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Sketchbook Sunday
Rotating sketchbooks as pages dry is one of my favourite ways of working, although sometimes the day doesn’t seem to have much to show for it. Both my junk journal and my Seawhite A5 are books where I do random layers here and there throughout the book, and at some point a page or spread…
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New Phone Bleurgh
I have 104 blank painting surfaces that aren’t paper – stretched canvases, canvas boards, linen canvases, wooden panels and gesso boards. They vary in size from teeny tiny 4×5″ to 24×30″ and I have accumulated them over a long time. Some of them were lost in boxes in the garage, which is perhaps why more…
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Crappy Day
I do not like days like today. I smashed my phone screen. I’ve never managed that before, but wow did I smash it. I’m really frustrated because the phone is perfectly serviceable, and had a lot of life left in it. I am not one for replacing phones every five minutes, and had no plans…
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Organising
A lot of things were accomplished today that did not involve drawing or painting. A patio area was extended, which sounds a lot more glamorous than simply making a wheelie bin corner a bit more accessible, but it got done. I confess that I did not employ my own patio laying skills of yore, and…
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Poppy red
100 Day Project Day 80 Today I was researching cultural symbols, and discovered that I have the official flower of Palestine growing in my garden. It’s a plant I transported from my previous much more inspiring garden, and I’m so chuffed to discover it has a new layer of meaning to me. It’s flowering just…
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Friday Finishing
100 Day Project Day 69 I spent a lot of time this morning avoiding my art room, and avoiding looking at my nearly finished painting. I spent a lot of time doing other things, but thinking about my painting a lot, and overthinking how I was going to finish it. In my head I created…
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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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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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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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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…
Thrummie Bizzum 