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  • Blue Hair Day

    Blue Hair Day

    Today I did some studio housekeeping, tidying overgrown piles, washing some gesso brushes, putting manky water in the cat litter bucket. Very glamourous. Then I worked in some sketchbooks, and procrastinated about virtually everything, and it was not creative or productive procrastination, it was unadulterated overwhelm at the state of the world. Eventually I got…

  • New Sketchbook Project

    New Sketchbook Project

    I didn’t have much time today as we went for a seven mile walk, which was beautiful and autumnal. I got another of the wee 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbooks specifically to use with my 3×5″ gel plate. Yes, one of those measurements is imperial and one is decimal and that’s how I roll. I used…

  • Monotype Printing

    Monotype Printing

    I am never short of ideas, and that’s what’s so funny/frustrating about a lot of days when I go to the studio, and then stand there wondering “what am I going to paint???” Today I didn’t have that feeling, although I did a whole bunch of procrastinating before I went to the studio, so it…

  • Used Book Inspo

    Used Book Inspo

    Today I’ve been playing with gel plates, but there’s nothing particularly interesting to show for it, so far. The new mini plate (3×5″) is just so good for my A5 mixed media art journal, I’m in heaven. For the blog, I thought I’d share my book haul from my trip last week. They are all…

  • Crooked Street

    Crooked Street

    Using some of my photographs from last week’s trip to Orkney as references, I did some painting in my sketchbook. I limited my palette to three colours and titanium white – phthalo turquoise, naples yellow red and permanent red violet light. I used one scratchy brush for the undersketch, and then one flat brush for…

  • Decompress

    Decompress

    I spent a little time on an intriguing Let’s Face It class today, as well as some play with gel plates. I’m having that post-social need to regenerate thing, alongside feeling extremely creeped out at how silent some folk are being about the ongoing genocide that is now extended to another country. The privilege I…

  • Pulling

    Pulling

    Today I got a wee parcel with two gel plates from a brand I haven’t tried before, so that was a nice way to get back into the studio and mess about with paints. I’ll have to give them a few sessions before I can decide whether they are like for like, or an improvement,…

  • Thursday

    Thursday

    We were on trains all day returning home, so it’s another wee sketch of a crooked street, this time I used one of the photos from our trip for reference, but simplified a little, mostly because I’m tired. Normal service resumes tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 222/300

  • Wednesday

    Wednesday

    Today was a day with a LOT. I’m knackered. My mini sketch for the day is inspired by a street in Stromness. I took lots of photos for later, but this was drawn just from memory and imagination. Til the morn, Suzanne 221/300

  • Tuesday

    Tuesday

    I took a small tiny sketchbook with me, and at 9pm I got a couple of little sketches done. This one is an old lamp that hangs in Perth railway station, which is one of the places we changed trains today. It’s been a long day, and we’ve travelled from the middle to the far…

  • Apprehensive

    Apprehensive

    I am preparing for a wee trip that will hopefully double-up as an artist date kind of thing, with some experiences to fill the well, alongside meeting familial obligations. I am avoiding my To Do List, and navigating executive dysfunction like a pro, so the fact I have painted at all is merely an example…

  • Quirky Cat

    Quirky Cat

    A ten -minute challenge to paint a quirky cat ornament study while limited to chunky scratchy brush and only two colours plus white. Also testing out some inexpensive A3 paper I picked up. It will do a trick, but I’ll buy something different next time. Til the morn, Suzanne 218/300