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  • Girl in this world

    Girl in this world

    First finished painting of 2025. Yay! Acrylic on paper, 16×12″ 300gsm watercolour paper. This is my response to the first class in Let’s Face It 2025, with Kara Bullock. I decided to use the same reference as Kara (from Museum app) but do my own thing with the colour palette, composition, and style. Instead of…

  • Looking Up Or Eye Rolling

    Looking Up Or Eye Rolling

    I spent some time yesterday making collage fodder with a view to using it for this class project, and then got up and did something completely different from the plan. I made the background, then sketched this cute quine in with a few charcoal marks, and then did my underpainting with caput mortuum. Next I…

  • Art Journal Progress

    Art Journal Progress

    I have this A5 journal that I have been playing with for months. The project started with sessions of random mark-making, stencilling, stamping, scribbling, and whatever came to hand, until every page was no longer blank. In the meantime I have also used up excess paint, written in phrases, and occasionally worked a spread to…

  • Sketching Ideas

    Sketching Ideas

    Today I had another not-good day. It seems the festive season has gifted me with a sharp lurch into the next phase of perimenopause, and by fuck is it a complete and utter bastard. I did manage to spend some hot sweaty time in my sketchbook marvelling at how hot and sweaty I am as…

  • Beyond the Reference

    Beyond the Reference

    I’m always a bit tickled when the sketch becomes more about my mood than what the reference is doing. Til the morn, Suzanne 321/400

  • Word of the Year

    Word of the Year

    I can’t remember if I wrote about it here, or not, but I had been pondering my 2025 Word of the Year, and I came up with the phrase Take Up Space. I let that compost for a while to see if something else came up, or a different way of framing it arrived, but…

  • Happy New Year

    Happy New Year

    Happy New Year! I started early with the first art of the year, not least because some bam was letting off fireworks nearby, despite it being horrific weather with 40-50mph wind gusts. Since I wasn’t settling to sleep, I got up and made some art. The paper is 12×16″ 140lb hot press, and I used…

  • Happy Hogmanay!

    Happy Hogmanay!

    I spent Hogmanay tidying my studio room, cleaning brushes, and sorting out the big shelf with portfolios and larger paper sheets. My intention was to make space to slot in the large box of A1 paper that arrived yesterday, and it fits in perfectly, while being easy to pull out to grab a sheet of…

  • Odd Day Old Sketchbook New Paper

    Odd Day Old Sketchbook New Paper

    I am still looking at this sketchbook absolutely willing it to be finished, it’s been a looooong time. Another page filled, tho. This was a non-dominant hand contour drawing with no reference, painted using my colour mix. I hated the whole thing, then dry-brushed a bit of white gesso over the top, redid some of…

  • Daisy Pulls

    Daisy Pulls

    It is a windy day today, and after walking a few miles in the wind, I was not enthralled with being in my studio room listening to the wind, which seems to be very loud in that room, and painting. I did spend some time in there, tho, doing a quick gel printing session. I…

  • I See It With My Own Eyes

    I See It With My Own Eyes

    I have been drawing eyes like this today, and watching the evil Israel has yet again meted out to a hospital, its staff, and the patients. That’s all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 315/400

  • Look Up

    Look Up

    I used my jumbo retractable pencil with the 5B lead for this one, and played with the reference a little. After the art, I went for a 5 mile walk, and while we were out, felt the weather change and get colder, which it hasn’t been this week, it has been far too warm for…