Tag: clowns
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Clown
When you start painting a self-portrait and it’s not going the way you like you can either push through the discomfort and ugly phase, or act on an impulse and smear a clown face over it, and that’s what I did today. I could write some things about going beyond the reference, but this was…
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I’m Not Joking
I performed surgery on her eyes and fiddled with some little details, and she’s finished. 12×16″ acrylic on canvas and I’ve named her I’m Not Joking. This painting, and the one I finished last week, go quite well together with their theme of young women reacting to men demanding they smile. Til the morn, Suzanne…
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Let Them Cook
I have a bunch of unfinished paintings and projects, and I used to give myself a hard time about finishing things, but I am now embracing the idea of having lots of unfinished things that are simply cooking until I feel moved to come back to them. This one has been cooking for ages, and…
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Clown Paint
I pulled this out of the unfinished stack and did a little work on her this morning. I didn’t have a lot of time as we had visitors today, but she’s back on the easel with a fresh pair of eyes, and I think she’ll probably end up with a fresh pair of eyes. Til…
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Seeing Red Has Value
I’m having a poor mental health day today. I know exactly why that is, and I know that it will pass, it’s just a thing that happens the day before a Thing happens. It’s not hormonal, it’s another Thing. When this happens, everything else is magnified, and it doesn’t take much to set of a…
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Clowning Around
Yesterday I read that Meta scraped everyone’s images for their AI enshittification before they offered the opt-out, and the opt-out is only available to folk in the EU. The opt-out doesn’t appear to work for me on Instagram, and given Scotland was dragged out of the EU against our will, I don’t know if it…
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