Tag: brown hare
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Turquoise and Rain
At the risk of this blog morphing into a weather channel, today we had lots of rain, clouds, and cooler temps, in complete contrast to recent days, and it was glorious. It is still raining, and long may it continue. In the studio, I did a lot of pottering about shifting from one thing to…
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Good Hare Day
Both the temperature and the humidity dropped today, although it was still hot and humid by normal standards, but not as unbearable as the last few days. 100% humidity is just unfair. Anyway, I got a lot more time in the studio today, and got some good work done. I started out in the A5…
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Hare-Brained World
Today was fineliner sketching and I’m enjoying these two hares from the same reference. I am more interested in using a reference to inspire something, than doing photo-realism or carbon copies. I do practise replicating things closely, but that is more about honing my seeing skills than self-expression. In amongst all the developments as the…
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Hare On Canvas WIP
(I’m playing around with the theme settings, but I’m not settled on which change I want to make, or if I want to make a change at all. It has all gone a bit purple.) I did a fair bit of procrastinating and painting other things, backgrounds, before I got stuck in with this. I…
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Wet Hare
Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…
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Pyrrole Orange Hare
I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…
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Unsettled
I am not settling in to my temporary art space at all, so I’m giving myself space to just do a sketch in my A5 sketchbook as my daily art until I get into a groove. My lodger lurcher is much more important, especially since he’s a senior boy, and you never know if this…
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Overthinking
I was really pleased with yesterday’s hare painting, and it gave me lots of ideas, and today I got set up with my timer, which is my new favourite motivator, and then I observed how tight I was. I set up a watercolour block, so better paper than the gessoed cartridge paper that is just…
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Hare Timing
Yesterday I tried setting a timer, and using that to keep me focused on making art and not getting distracted, and it did work, but if I’m being honest with myself, yesterday there was still a lot of faffing. Today I set my timer for one hour, plus five minutes to give myself time to…
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Will A Timer Work?
I’ve been thinking about my practise, and imagining the ways I could develop my practise now that I am creating every day, and comfortable with sharing my practise no matter how bad the art is. Side note – I’m getting over thinking about my art in terms of bad art versus good art, because all…
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Loose Hare
Painting from my sketches is something I am having fun with just now. It’s a really fun way to loosen up, and find character in drawings, or find a different character from the first drawing. It’s also a really handy practise on those Don’t Know What To Paint days – just grab a sketchbook, and…
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