Thrummie Bizzum

Tag: daily art

  • Pfft

    Pfft

    The reference photo for this sketch is a picture of gentle serenity, and I sketched this while a man spent six hours repeatedly mowing the same small, tiny, patch of grass with a petrol lawnmower, so I think I definitely translated my mood into the sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 191/200

  • Promarker Skull

    Promarker Skull

    In amongst sketchbook practise, I pulled out this piece of cardboard that I had made a background on at some point and decided to play around with some marker pens, a supply I don’t use very often, to make a skull. Til the morn, Suzanne 190/200

  • Six In One

    Six In One

    Yesterday I used a background that had been done quite a while back as the substrate from my painting. Late in the evening I pulled a few more bits and pieces from my rack of part-done work to see if anything else called to me to be finished. One of things I pulled out was…

  • Art Graf Kneadable Putty

    Art Graf Kneadable Putty

    I spent a lot of time sorting and tidying in my art spaces today, and it’s a good way to get in amongst things and rediscover supplies that haven’t been touched for a while. It’s definitely part of the creative process, because it’s all about setting the scene for intuitive creativity. One thing I came…

  • I’ve Pulled

    I’ve Pulled

    The satisfaction to be had slowly pulling a gel print that has been left overnight is so good. This was all pulled as one, so lots of waiting for layers to dry in between. It just needs a little tweak on one eye, and it’s good to go. Til the morn, Suzanne 183/200

  • On The Gel Plate

    On The Gel Plate

    Playing with charcoal transfers of the weird face I made the other day. This one is still on the gel plate with the layer drying before I try pulling it. Til the morn, Suzanne 182/200

  • Skull and Red

    Skull and Red

    It’s very weird accepting the death of Murphy even though I knew that it was not going to be long. I just knew. He wasn’t my dog, he only came to stay here for his holidays, and odd weekends here and there, but he was tied up in the story of my own dog who…

  • Inspired By Old Sketchbook Page

    Inspired By Old Sketchbook Page

    I’ve probably said this before, but there are so many videos on social media flipping through perfect and beautiful sketchbooks, and that’s all very relaxing to watch, but my sketchbooks are a clusterbourach of discombobulation, especially the older stuff. That’s fine, there are all sorts of ways of filling a book, and although I have…

  • Dour Mood

    Dour Mood

    Til the morn, Suzanne 179/200

  • By The Sea

    By The Sea

    I spent some time today doing another two colour play exercise, but this time I chose my colours. I didn’t enjoy it as much as yesterday, and although I mixed some nice colours, I wasn’t feeling the interplay between a transparent paint and an opaque one. Not today. It was a fun warm up exercise,…

  • Two Colour Play Portrait

    Two Colour Play Portrait

    Today I opened my insanely ancient sketchbook that I would really like to finish with no idea what I was going to do, so I stared at the blank page for a few minutes. Sometimes I think gardening and painting involve a very similar process of standing and staring at things until something in the…

  • Analogous

    Analogous

    The absolute privilege of being able to shut myself off from the world for a couple of hours and just play with paint, make absolutely terrible portraits, and have my biggest existential dilemma be whether I want to be a person who has clean stencils, or a person who has gorgeoulsy grungey stencils is not…