Tag: Art
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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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Sunday Splash
I love watercolours. I hate watercolours. I love watercolours. I don’t know how to use watercolours. I know how to use watercolours, I just don’t practise. I have a Let’s Face It class from months ago that is haunting me. I really want to nail it, but it is just not happening. The artist is…
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Toes!
100 Day Project Day 54 I’ve noticed a weird thing going on. If I write a blog and post it here, I don’t have so many attachments to what happens after. Some people read it (thank you!), some like it (thank you!), and a couple of people comment (very thank you!). If I post elsewhere,…
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Sketchbook flip-through
100 Day Project Day 10 I did not flood anything today. As far as I know. I did some work on my Self Portrait While Kitchen Ceiling Floods. I had to trick myself into picking up the paint brush by telling myself it was only twenty minutes with one colour, which turned into an hour…
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Cerulean Blue Muse
100 Day Project Day 4 I am still wildly procrastinating over finishing an oil painting I am working on. It really only needs one more pass, but my flow was interrupted, and now it has this invisible and currently impenetrable shield around it. It’s productive procrastination, tho, as I have been doing a bit of…
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Blocks, blocked, and unblocked
I have been making art since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I won an art prize when I was around 5 years old, with a painting of a steam engine. I remember being so excited about winning this prize, and the fact I would have to attend the Steam Engine Rally to collect my…
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Word of the Year
It’s two weeks into the year and I have settled on my WOTY. I was musing about the way New Year’s Resolutions are often a list of ways we aren’t good enough, and even the way, for me, the WOTY often disappears from my consciousness after a few weeks, and so did I really need…
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Ill-tricket
I find the paintings that I like most, whether they are mine, or someone else’s, are not Nice paintings. I like finding the darker vibe, the shadows, and the ill-tricket energy.
Thrummie Bizzum 