Tag: art journals
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Art Journal Progress
I have this A5 journal that I have been playing with for months. The project started with sessions of random mark-making, stencilling, stamping, scribbling, and whatever came to hand, until every page was no longer blank. In the meantime I have also used up excess paint, written in phrases, and occasionally worked a spread to…
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Analogous
The absolute privilege of being able to shut myself off from the world for a couple of hours and just play with paint, make absolutely terrible portraits, and have my biggest existential dilemma be whether I want to be a person who has clean stencils, or a person who has gorgeoulsy grungey stencils is not…
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Pushing Back
Today was Day 1 of trying to reset my routine again, after my adorable lodger went home. I am not good at switching routines, so it will take me a few days to get back into the swing of things. This hasn’t been helped by an all day headache, meh. I did get back to…
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Mark Making
The house feels empty now my lodger has departed. Humph. I wasn’t feeling arty at all today, but we started returning things to their usual places so that I can jump back in tomorrow with my familiar set up. I did do a bit of mark-making in my Seawhite journal, on a page that already…
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Do you?
Do you name your sketchbooks? I think I am going to think about naming my sketchbooks, especially since I am writing about them, and ‘A5 Seawhite’ is kind of boring. Anyway, I took a day off hares, not least because I had an idea that requires another watercolour block to rotate, and that won’t arrive…
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Loose Hare
Painting from my sketches is something I am having fun with just now. It’s a really fun way to loosen up, and find character in drawings, or find a different character from the first drawing. It’s also a really handy practise on those Don’t Know What To Paint days – just grab a sketchbook, and…
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Bad Hair Day
100 Day Project Day 64 There’s a lovely post circulating the socials at the moment that tells the story of a studio who sacked artists and hired ai prompters to do the job instead, and they couldn’t do it. Their prompts didn’t generate quality work, and when they were sent back to make changes, of…
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