Thrummie Bizzum

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  • Ideas a bubbling

    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…

  • Pfft

    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

  • Promarker Skull

    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

  • Self Portait

    Self Portait

    Late last night I got a blast of inspiration and started prepping a canvas for today. I did say yesterday that my six little canvases might end up shunted again soon. I heard someone referring to this as ‘simmering’ and I suppose that’s a nicer way to put it, it’s definitely more constructive than ‘shunted’…

  • Pot, Pottering and Portrait

    Pot, Pottering and Portrait

    I painted and pottered for several hours today, working in my sketchbook, and also carrying on with my six little canvases. All six now have gel transfers of the odd little face motif from one of my drawings, and I’ll start painting them tomorrow, unless my brain takes me off in some other direction, which…

  • Six In One

    Six In One

    Yesterday I used a background that had been done quite a while back as the substrate from my painting. Late in the evening I pulled a few more bits and pieces from my rack of part-done work to see if anything else called to me to be finished. One of things I pulled out was…

  • Blue Woman

    Blue Woman

    This orange background has been sitting in my stash for a short age, and then today I added more stencilling around the edge, and added this sitting figure that I am enjoying just now. She isn’t finished, but I know what I want to do next, and I’ll let that be my starting place tomorrow.…

  • Art Graf Kneadable Putty

    Art Graf Kneadable Putty

    I spent a lot of time sorting and tidying in my art spaces today, and it’s a good way to get in amongst things and rediscover supplies that haven’t been touched for a while. It’s definitely part of the creative process, because it’s all about setting the scene for intuitive creativity. One thing I came…

  • Monday Postcard

    Monday Postcard

    I spent some time swatching colours today, and mixing with a limited palette, and I also got stuck in with three gel plates rotating for a bit, but my favourite postcard from today is this sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 184/200

  • I’ve Pulled

    I’ve Pulled

    The satisfaction to be had slowly pulling a gel print that has been left overnight is so good. This was all pulled as one, so lots of waiting for layers to dry in between. It just needs a little tweak on one eye, and it’s good to go. Til the morn, Suzanne 183/200

  • On The Gel Plate

    On The Gel Plate

    Playing with charcoal transfers of the weird face I made the other day. This one is still on the gel plate with the layer drying before I try pulling it. Til the morn, Suzanne 182/200

  • Skull and Red

    Skull and Red

    It’s very weird accepting the death of Murphy even though I knew that it was not going to be long. I just knew. He wasn’t my dog, he only came to stay here for his holidays, and odd weekends here and there, but he was tied up in the story of my own dog who…