Tag: artist blog
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Ziggy
Ziggy looking like butter wouldn’t melt. Don’t be fooled. Most of today has been out and about, first in art supplies shops, then making friends with lots of old trees. I don’t live near art supplies shops, so I relished the visit. I did not make it out unburdened. Til the morn, Suzanne 495/500
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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Hairy Beasties
Not in my usual spot today, so sitting painting in my sketchbook instead of standing, and one reference was a living being who wasn’t posed, didn’t know they were being appropriated, and I conclude a more fidgety than I thought. I’ll leave it up to your imagination which one is the living, highly mobile, being.…
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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Fineliner Toes
Til the morn, Suzanne 490/500
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New Things and Still Too Hot
Today was hotter than yesterday and the pollen count was high, and I am quite, quite done with it all. The day was not a total downer, tho, as a wee box of new art supplies arrived to cheer me up. I got two more of those chonky Liquitex paint markers in quinacridone crimson and…
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Too Hot
I am struggling with the heat, ugh. Til the morn, Suzanne 488/500
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Side-Eye in Chisel Tip
A length of brown paper cut off the roll and clipped to an A2 board is one of my go-tos this week, and I am falling head over heels for my singular Liquitex chisel point marker. It’s a different way to make marks, and completely out of the comfort zone of scratchy brushes and moveable…
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Handmade Grey
I mixed an interesting blue-grey today. It’s not a payne’s grey, but it’s got a similar feel. I used caput mortuum violet, phthalo blue and van dyke brown for the mix, and white to get some lighter values. This is a horsie I started on a wood panel ages ago with just a rough sketch,…
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Resource Unlocked
Immensely chuffed with myself today for finally doing a small task that has been lingering for far too long. I have a CD-ROM of figure poses, I think there are 1,600 options, that I have been meaning to transfer to my flash drive for months, probably longer. Today I finally performed this really quite simple…
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Turning a blind eye
This is a painting from a painting. It’s actually a painting from a painting from a painting, and today’s version is quite the mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 484/500
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