Tag: hare
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Get It On Paper
The clocks changed overnight, and we reverted to GMT for the winter, and I am discombobulated, naturally. I had an idea, and this sketchbook page is the start of working out the idea. It’s definitely not a finished and resolved page, it’s just scratching an idea onto a page for later – what sketchbooks are…
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Six Hundred Days of Art
Day 600 of the 100 Day Project I started in February 2024 and didn’t expect to get further than the first couple of weeks, a month tops. I still count the days because maintaining this streak works for me as a motivator. Today’s postcards from the studio are multiple, and I love that over six…
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger…
I have gone big. Properly big. I’ve had the A1 paper for a while, but never got around to getting a big board. Until today. As soon as it arrived I abandoned the sketches in my A4 book, grabbed a 3″ brush, and tried painting a giant hare. It’s not the best hare I’ve ever…
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Just Paint
Yesterday’s post was ringing in my brain today, and I put a large-ish canvas up on the easel and just started playing. There was some sort of sketch on the canvas, but it wasn’t worth preserving, so I mixed some paint and smeared a ground on, and from there things got a bit interesting. Hares…
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Turquoise and Rain
At the risk of this blog morphing into a weather channel, today we had lots of rain, clouds, and cooler temps, in complete contrast to recent days, and it was glorious. It is still raining, and long may it continue. In the studio, I did a lot of pottering about shifting from one thing to…
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Good Hare Day
Both the temperature and the humidity dropped today, although it was still hot and humid by normal standards, but not as unbearable as the last few days. 100% humidity is just unfair. Anyway, I got a lot more time in the studio today, and got some good work done. I started out in the A5…
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Hare-Brained World
Today was fineliner sketching and I’m enjoying these two hares from the same reference. I am more interested in using a reference to inspire something, than doing photo-realism or carbon copies. I do practise replicating things closely, but that is more about honing my seeing skills than self-expression. In amongst all the developments as the…
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Complex Horse and Cloth Hare Head
The last thing I did today was sketch this horse in my sketchbook. It’s a lovely, challenging reference that I’ve come back to a few times. It’s very good for the practise of reducing complex things to simple shapes. Reducing complex things to simple shapes was also the theme of one of the other projects…
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Sketchbook Plotting
I did not get stuck into the next stage of my textured self-portrait today. I put it up on the easel and moved it off the easel four times. I shuffled through my rack of works-in-progress and sorted them into vague categories. I eventually accepted that I was in procrastination mode, and got stuck into…
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Hare On Canvas WIP
(I’m playing around with the theme settings, but I’m not settled on which change I want to make, or if I want to make a change at all. It has all gone a bit purple.) I did a fair bit of procrastinating and painting other things, backgrounds, before I got stuck in with this. I…
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Wet Hare
Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…
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