Tag: daily art

  • A Ragged Screech

    A Ragged Screech

    I figured out my weird mood yesterday when I woke up this morning with the delights of an aura migraine. Yum. Of course it’s very sunny today, which amplifies the various elements of my frothy duvet brain. This too shall pass. Despite my affliction, I got a lot more into arting today than I did…

  • Monday

    Monday

    I just wasn’t feeling it today at all. It’s not surprising, and I am not going to be hard on myself, because the world is overwhelming just now for those of us who are paying attention. I did do art, even though I just couldn’t settle down to anything, but it felt like a desperate…

  • World Gone Mad Do Art

    World Gone Mad Do Art

    I had a really good day in my studio room today, a really fun day, despite everything going on out there. One of the things I did was revisit this drawing from earlier in the year. I love this reference, and I love my drawing, and I have never felt the urge to revisit this…

  • Playing With Marks I Made

    Playing With Marks I Made

    Neocolor IIs in my sketchbook, making faces incorporating one of the clusters I made during yesterday’s mark making, and adding to it. Til the morn, Suzanne 167/200

  • Still Life and Water Mini Drama

    Still Life and Water Mini Drama

    I was not in the mood for painting faces when I started painting today, but I had no idea what to paint. I don’t really do this, but I know a lot of artists will just paint their supplies when they are stuck, so I thought I would have a go. Fun fact – you…

  • Layered Screaming

    Layered Screaming

    I am being entertained by the arrival of this year’s crop of baby magpies. We usually have three baby magpies visiting the garden each year, but this year we think we might have four. One of the babies was very much just fledged from the nest yesterday and didn’t seem to be keeping up to…

  • Eight Times One Face

    Eight Times One Face

    I am a few weeks behind in keeping up with the Let’s Face It classes. This is fine, you buy the course, you have access to the classes for life, but it is nice to get the community feel of the class group. I’m going to jump back in with whatever class lands on Monday,…

  • Space to Dream

    Space to Dream

    An artist I admire posted a photo of her studio on social media the other day, and it was absolutely stappit fu with finished paintings. Colour everywhere, lots of different sizes and substrates. It looked absolutely amazing. I looked at that photo and saw goals – having a body of work that overwhelms my space,…

  • 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…

  • Still Collecting Screams

    Still Collecting Screams

    The first sketch I did today was from a previous sketch of mine. I was testing an Art Graf product, and I remember I really liked it, and yet I haven’t used it much. Note to self. Trying to replicate a complex facial expression with my scratchy shitty brush was a challenge. I wasn’t going…

  • It’s Just Paint

    It’s Just Paint

    I remember when getting the Tories out meant getting the Tories out. It no longer does. They’re wearing a different coloured ribbon, tho, woop woop. I wrote a long political post, and then condensed it down to the above. There you have it. We aren’t headed in a good direction. Anyway, I got a bit…

  • Practise Makes Progress

    Practise Makes Progress

    Today I pulled out my A4 sketchbook and plastered some gesso onto some pages. They probably don’t need the gesso for what I planned to do, but spreading gesso on a page is as much of a ritual and a signal as it is a specific requirement. It tells you something is happening. Even though…