Tag: brown paper

  • Get Over It

    Get Over It

    I procrastinated ALL day. I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head, but I just did not make it into the studio to paint until I had thirty minutes until Himself was due home. Ugh. I hate those kind of days. Eventually I rolled out some brown paper and made a mid tone…

  • Chunks and Smears

    Chunks and Smears

    One of yesterday’s drawings was hilariously bad, but a good smear of gesso over everything but the head made a fresh layer for another go today. I used one of my XL charcoal chunks for some messy, chonky mark-making, and then sprayed it all with water. I can never remember which XL charcoal chunks are…

  • Side-Eye in Chisel Tip

    Side-Eye in Chisel Tip

    A length of brown paper cut off the roll and clipped to an A2 board is one of my go-tos this week, and I am falling head over heels for my singular Liquitex chisel point marker. It’s a different way to make marks, and completely out of the comfort zone of scratchy brushes and moveable…

  • Priming Papers

    Priming Papers

    I’m still resting that portrait, not least because I did not sleep well at all last night, for a number of reasons. For today’s creativity I watched this week’s Let’s Face It class with Deanna Strachan-Wilson. I like her process, and I spent a bit of time pondering how to respond to the class in…

  • Deconstruction and Integration

    Deconstruction and Integration

    A large piece of brown packing paper has been annoying me for days, perhaps longer. I saved it to paint on later, then slotted it into a place where it just kept getting in the way. Today I tore it up, and put it back together to make painting surfaces. Deconstruction and integration. I used…

  • Scream III

    Scream III

    Have I told you how much my new workbench has changed things? I am sure that I have, but I will say it again, my new workbench has changed everything. There’s probably a stand-alone story I could write about that particular room, and the crazymaker person who… yes… I’ll spend some time writing that story,…

  • One Hundred and Fifty

    One Hundred and Fifty

    Day 150 feels like a milestone, and I am thinking about how this daily practise has changed me. I saw a thing the other day online, and I can’t remember where it was, but it was a commentary that said that if you commit to doing art/creativity as a daily practise for X amount of…