Tag: artist blog
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Sponge Brush Portrait
I’m still playing with this reference from Unsplash that I like, and today I was playing with one of the paint colours I mixed the other day and a sponge brush. I’m really enjoying the sponge brushes just now. I also spent a lot of time trying to organise collage fodder, gel prints, and all…
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Colour Mixing
Carrying on with my colour mixing play the other day, I finished mixing the grid of colours for the sketchbook, and then I decided I wanted a set of nine colours, with a mix of lights, mids and darks. I spent some time mixing colours using the sketchbook palette as inspiration, and I now have…
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Recycled Stars and Inky Drips
I have been busy in my studio today doing lots of different fun things, and one of the fun things I got up to was recycling some pages from an old journal to turn them into collage fodder. I checked the pages first to see if there were any amazing insights, or delicious memories, but…
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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…
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Batching Gesso
Most of my time today was spent priming canvases and other substrates as that’s about as much as I could muster while Storm Darragh blew everything around. Gesso on canvas isn’t very photogenic, so when the lull in the storm came, I did some more crow sketching in my A4 sketchbook. I used a brown…
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Colour Play
Playing with my homemade stay-wet palette and some colour mixing today. I find the stay-wet palette a little challenging because it has sides, and is therefore an enclosed and limited space, and this sort of requires a bit of structure and organisation of paint, and I am not sure I am built that way. But…
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Playing in my new space
I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…
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Surprise Shelf
I thought I was going to get stuck in with the new studio room set-up today, but the installation of a narrow shelf at the back of my workbench meant that there was another round of moving things. The wee shelf finishes everything off perfectly, so tomorrow I have no excuses for not painting all…
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Cheap Sketchbook Success
In theory doing a straight swap of two bookcases and a table to a larger space than the space they were in should be quite a simple undertaking, but no… I’ve completely changed my studio room space, and as much as I am knackered from the decluttering and organising, I am soooooo happy with my…
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Colour Note
I spent a lot of time today organising books. I have a lot of books, but never too many. There’s no such thing. The problem, and it’s a nice problem to have, is that moving two large bookcases to my studio room means choices have to be made about what goes in those bookcases, and…
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All Will Be Revealed
I’m posting an older sketch from my Strathmore Grey sketchbook today, because the art and creativity that I did today aren’t for showing yet. It’s that secretive time of year, you know 😉 Til the morn, Suzanne 287/300
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