Tag: artist blog
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Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence
Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…
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Two Hundred
Given that I wasn’t expecting to last even thirty days at this malarkey, I’m going to reward myself for sticking with this for two hundred days. I think it might be considered a habit now. I did not, as it happens, complete that sketchbook to coincide with this. I had a feeling that I wouldn’t,…
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Making a Stay-Wet Palette
Yesterday I moved some things to my studio room from the wee room that I was using previously. It was the next stage in claiming my space as a studio. Today I was painting, and kept finding myself in the wee room looking for A Thing, then remembering all the things are now in the…
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Tidying My Studio Room
I spent a good chunk of my creative time rearranging and organising my Studio Room today. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I can only figure that out by working in it. I moved another daylight lamp in, which is going to come into major play as winter continues creeping, and…
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Painted All Day
Today I filled four spreads in my sketchbook, and this is the most coherent snippet from those pages… The spreads are all working out ideas for a painting, but it’s still in the early stages and I have the sense that if I talk about it, that might dissipate the energy around it. As I’ve…
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Intentional and Interesting Mud
A really good art day today with lots of little experiments, and working on ideas for two paintings that I may or may not paint, but I have the ideas bubbling away, and I am enjoying the explorations. Above is one of my sketchbook pages, and it’s a loose sketch of an element from an…
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Developing Idea
I was rooting through my sketchbooks today looking for a drawing, and as I was flicking through one I finished earlier this year, I noticed how vibrant and varied it was compared with the current sketchbook I am working in. Now at the time when I finished it, I thought it was maybe a bit…
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Almost Blank Postcard
I have a LOT of things swirling in my brain today, but none of them are ready for fingertip processing. I painted, tho. Til the morn, Suzanne 194/200
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Unexpected
New art supplies rock, and they rock even more when someone just surprises me with them. The ceramic palette is one of those things I didn’t know I needed until it was handed to me. I love it. I do have a couple of others, but this one is a nice size, and it’s also…
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Ideas a bubbling
Today is an odd day because I have lots of sketches but I don’t want to publish them here as they are ideas for a painting, and I want the idea to continue brewing before I start sharing about it, if that makes sense. My warm-up sketch isn’t part of the project, so I’ll use…
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Pfft
The reference photo for this sketch is a picture of gentle serenity, and I sketched this while a man spent six hours repeatedly mowing the same small, tiny, patch of grass with a petrol lawnmower, so I think I definitely translated my mood into the sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 191/200
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Promarker Skull
In amongst sketchbook practise, I pulled out this piece of cardboard that I had made a background on at some point and decided to play around with some marker pens, a supply I don’t use very often, to make a skull. Til the morn, Suzanne 190/200
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