Tag: corvids
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Crow Redemption
Yesterday two of my paintings were dropped off at a gallery and I finished a large sketchbook which is full with a lot of work I like. I felt good about my practise. Today I pulled out some soft pastels, graphite and charcoal and started working on an intuitive portrait with no reference. I have…
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Sketching Ideas
Today I had another not-good day. It seems the festive season has gifted me with a sharp lurch into the next phase of perimenopause, and by fuck is it a complete and utter bastard. I did manage to spend some hot sweaty time in my sketchbook marvelling at how hot and sweaty I am as…
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I Can’t Paint
The mantra reverberates around my brain, sometimes it’s so much a part of the background noise, that I don’t even hear it. It’s ingrained. It has different clothes, sometimes. Sometimes it tells me I can’t do this, or I can’t do that, or I shouldn’t do this, or that. It’s every version of Not Good…
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Sketchbook Sunday
100 Day Project Day 85 We went for another late night wander last night to see if we could see the Northern Lights again, but they weren’t showing themselves, and it started to cloud over. We tried a different spot up the back of the town further away from the lights, which I think would…
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100 Day Project Day 2
I’ve been listening to podcasts while doing some organising of my art supplies today, and more than one had discussions about social media and perfectionism, and that is one of the reasons I often lose momentum on these art every day type challenges. I’m going to try not to do that this time. So here’s…
Thrummie Bizzum 