Tag: crows
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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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Sponge Brush Crow
This is one of the small 8×8″ canvases that I have a pile of, and I literally have them in a pile with the challenge of doing something with them. The ground is vivid red orange acrylic ink, which is just gorgeous, and I painted the crow with a sponge brush and some payne’s grey…
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Batching Gesso
Most of my time today was spent priming canvases and other substrates as that’s about as much as I could muster while Storm Darragh blew everything around. Gesso on canvas isn’t very photogenic, so when the lull in the storm came, I did some more crow sketching in my A4 sketchbook. I used a brown…
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Playing in my new space
I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…
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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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Junk Journal Crow 6/100
100 Day Project Day 6 My junk journal is made from actual junk mail, and it is impossible to be precious about anything that is happening inside it. It just begs to be covered in non-dominant handed scribbles, and layers of grungey texture. That’s where I ended up today, after doing some pottering trying to…
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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…
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