Tag: inner critic
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Exhibition
Today has been a LOT, and I may not sleep much lol. I am very pleased to say that my portrait of Gisèle Pelicot will be part of the Scottish Society of Artists 126th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. My painting will be in the 30×30 small works section. !!! I…
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Forgot How To Draw
I started a new sketchbook today, although there is one spread in there from June, but other than that it hasn’t been touched. It was interesting observing my thought process around a fresh, new book. It’s essentially the same book – an A4 casebound sketchbook. It’s another pretty inexpensive one, although the other one was…
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Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence
Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…
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Critic Versus Paintbrush
The remnants of my recent migraine were crawling around my brain today, combined with not enough sleep brought on by staying up too late last night watching art YouTube and wondering if I am going to go on the rollercoaster that is the learning curve of making vlogs. I’m not sure if it’s me, really.…
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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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Invisible Productivity
100 Day Project Day 86 I read something somewhere recently about ADHDers making to do lists is more to do with the endorphin hit of the doing – list-making – than it is about getting anything on the list done. It was a humour post by an ADHD person, and of course I can’t remember…
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100 Day Project Day 3
I don’t have much of a problem being creative every day, even when I am procrastinating about finishing something – which I am very much doing right now – I have lots of other things I can pick up and work on, and I work in sketchbooks and journals, so the challenge with this 100…
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Painting Over Perfectionism
Yesterday I spent some time on the oil portrait I have been working on. I am not much used to working in oils, so the learning curve is, well, curvy, and steep. I realise I have become quite comfortable in making art fast, and I enjoy that process, and it definitely helps me be loose and…
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Critical Comparison Crap
I’m working on two paintings this week, both using the same reference. Here’s one of the works-in-progress with the background and underpainting blocked in. I’m enjoying this immersion in portraiture so much, and I’m having so many ideas for paintings. Recently, I saw a portrait by another artist in the online class/community I’m participating in,…
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