Tag: art practise
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Purdah
Today’s sketchbook practice. It’s election day here in Scotland, and also in Wales, and some parts of England are voting in local council elections, so today marks the last day of purdah. I find it interesting the word for the pre-election period, and the tradition of political neutrality from the civil service and other bodies,…
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The Red Darkness
Today’s share is from my 100 Day Project, returning to a palette and look that I really enjoy. Til the morn, election day, Suzanne 809/900
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Floccing Success
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook. I was using up paint on the palette after spending some time in a different sketchbook working on some ideas. I used a big shitty brush and gestural movements, and I like how this one came together. Flocculation update: it worked 🙂 I need to rethink my receptacles,…
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Flocculation
Up until now I have been using the cat litter method for acrylic paint water disposal, but I did a bit more research into the flocculation method, and discovered that it can be done with aluminium sulphate and garden lime, so this week I’m experimenting with the process to see if my scoops are the…
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Not My Mess
If you’ve been following along you will know that there is no greater expert at interfering with my daily art practice than yours truly. Even if I always manage to somehow maintain my daily art practice, there are days when procrastination gets right in the way of it all, and that’s on me. It’s frustrating,…
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Sketchbook to Canvas
Yesterday’s sketchbook experiment inspired today’s 110 Day Project mini canvas. The ground on the canvas was leaning cooler than the sketchbook page, and I think I like the warmer version more. That can be altered. For some reason my phone camera has gone wild with the pink in this photo, and usually fluorescent or fluorescent…
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Teasing Shapes
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook where I started with a quite dark ground and then teased the figure out with the light value magenta paint. There’s always a way to flip the rules. Til the morn, Suzanne 802/900
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Two Sizes and Ratios
The difference between large and small. It’s much easier to fit the figure on the page, and that challenge is part of the fascination of doing these tiny boards. They take a bit longer to get right. This one isn’t right, yet, it will come. It’s funny the way the warm-up sketch sometimes is the…
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800 Days of Art
I do love these milestones, especially as someone who has a tendency to squirrel off the track and do side quests, and leave behind special interests, and then be accused of never making anything of anything blah, blah, and indeed, blah. The great thing about my commitment to daily art is the freedom, there’s no…
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Surprise
Today’s 6×6″ canvas for the 100 Day Project and the brush I used. Til the morn, Suzanne 799/800
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Go Again
A fun thing about acrylic paint is that it has two drying points. Initially it becomes touch dry quite quickly, and then around two weeks later it is cured, fully dry. There’s a nice window around the touch dry stage where you can kind of reactivate it with water. This is handy if the figure…
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