Tag: artist blog
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Collage Fodder and a Tap
Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering…
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Ongoing Experiment
I thought I had solved the bleeding ink conundrum, but it was not the ink setting on the printer that caused the bleed. I had fun doing this, even though it’s technically a failure. It’s not a failure, I don’t look at art experiments that way. I have two theories. The first is that maybe…
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Transparency Discrepancy
Today’s timed sketch was done using only the Blackwing 602 pencil and my shammy cloth. I think I prefer mixing the types of graphite. Now onto the main event – experimenting with the transparencies. Yesterday I printed my drawing onto tissue paper, and it was very fragile, but gave a promising result, even on a…
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Attitude Girl and Wonky Horse
Today’s twenty minute timed sketch. I don’t think I have quite caught her *look* but I’ll go again with this one as she has an energy that I want to capture. I was quite busy in the studio today, and had a more successful day than most have been recently. I started out with a…
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Pearl Earrings
Twenty minute sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 442/500
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Mark-making and stamp making
I have not been playing very much recently, and I have missed guddling in my supplies, starting several things at once, jumping from sketchbook to sketchbook, and following my intuition. Those are my favourite kind of days. Of course I often get to the end of the session and think “yes but what will I…
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Don’t Draw A Cat
If you’ve set the timer for twenty minutes and there’s a human in the picture, because you’ll forget about the human until there’s four minutes left. I haven’t had a lot of chat recently, since the Supreme Court ruling attacked my trans siblings and their right to exist. Today we have the results of local…
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Timed Sketch
Twenty minute timed sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 439/500
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Six Drookit Hares
I revisited this little project today, making a batch of things that are the same but not the same. Til the morn, Suzanne 438/500
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Sketching Therapy
Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500
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Beauty Spot
This one needs more than an hour to do the beautiful age lines justice, but this is a good first go. Til the morn, Suzanne 436/500
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