Tag: artist blog
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Layers and Glazing
Continuing on with the piece I started yesterday, adding layers of marks, symbols and glazing. Always make notes about how you did things, because the piece that inspired this is a spread in an art journal that I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, but I’m having fun trying to…
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Layering Not Myself
I had a little more time in the studio today, so that was good. I have a block of watercolour paper that doesn’t like watercolour so I going to see how much of a beating it can take with mixed media. This has four layers before I got to the face, and it hasn’t rebelled.…
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Red Crow
Oil on canvas paper. Til the morn, Suzanne 309/400
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Hanging in there
Another day where time was not available, so it’s another evening sketch. This time using a reference of Rick the Muse. Til the morn, Suzanne 308/400
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Toned Gray Sketching
Another day with very little time for art. Poo. I probably could have had more time if I hadn’t procrastinated my way through my To Do list, but who needs that kind of self-reflection. Good grief. The second parcel of very large canvases, which were a replacement for the ones that arrived damaged a couple…
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Late Oil Sketch
I decided that I should probably do something to make things a bit Christmassy, so I spent a lot of time doing lots of little jobs, and some not so little jobs, that have been accumulating on my To Do list for months. It feels good, even if the proper sparkles haven’t been applied yet,…
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Live Sitter
Oil painting again today, this time a bit of fun with a live sitter. Forty-five minutes, and if you turn it upside down, there’s even a likeness. It’s a long time since I’ve done any figure drawing or portraiture with a live sitter, and you can’t tape them to the drawing board in the usual…
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Painting Saves the Mood
I had all sorts of plans for today, and a meticulous To Do List, and I was fired up and ready to conquer life, the universe and everything. The first item on my list was try, again, to contact the retailer who sent me two canvases with rips in the middle of them, which I…
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One Hour Portrait
Lots of painting and pottering in the studio room today, a very satisfying day. I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and set a timer for one hour with the challenge of doing a portrait study in oils. This is not something I have any practise in, but I figure if I can enjoy…
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Skeleton Tree
I was browsing a some of my old photos today, looking for themes, ideas, or a small spark, and I came across some of my Skeleton Tree photos. There are lots of stories attached to these photos, and the place where the tree stood, and a deep attachment to a season or two of my…
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Train Day
I had to travel to Edinburgh today to collect my painting as the exhibition has now closed, so I didn’t have a lot of time in the studio. I decided to pull out a gel plate, as that’s always a good way to decompress. Til the morn, Suzanne 301/400
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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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