Tag: mixed media
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Lightbulb Moment
My beautiful, amazing, low energy, high happy, SAD deterring, art daylight bulb in my studio popped. Deid. Dark. Defunct. Replacement tomorrow. In fairness it has been lighting my way since April 2024, and I am old enough to remember when lightbulbs were far less stoic. Naturally today was a very dark day with zero attempts…
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The In-Between Times
We are in the In-between Times where no-one knows what day it is. Someone asked me “what days is bins?” and I said “Saturday. But I don’t know what that means.” Today was bins, and they were emptied, and still all is not well in the world. I wanted to write “all is well in…
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Mixing Up The Art Supplies
I started the day with a small oil painting, a study in a canvas sketchbook. My subject was a still-life of two oranges, a blueberry and a banana. This is me trying to kickstart a (maybe) daily oil painting practise. I hadn’t pulled out the oils for a while, and I really enjoyed playing with…
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Revisit and Remix
I spent some time flipping through this sketchbook and making notes on things that caught my eye, and then for this page I combined a few things in ways I hadn’t previously, which gave me some new ideas. Machines can’t do that. Til the morn, Suzanne 672/700
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Art Interrupted
Today’s plan went out the window. I was happily bobbing along, working to plan, when I got a message that the vintage bookcase we bought at the weekend was going to be delivered. It was bought, paid for, and labelled Sold, but we weren’t expecting them to deliver for a while because they usually wait…
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Art Therapy
Some days you just need a large piece of paper, some Derwent XL blocks, gesso and a lot of big, gestural movements. “Civilasational erasure” indeed. Pfffft. Til the morn, Suzanne 662/700
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Embracing the Ugly Stage
We’re going through an ugly stage, and that’s not a terrible thing, the hands are complex in this one, so I’m pushing and pulling. I did browse the stretcher bars on Jackson’s, and I don’t think I’ll be building my own canvases just now. I did figure out where I got these three canvases, and…
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Look For The Shapes
The reason I love this muse (Dinoopis) is because painting her means I can’t escape looking for shapes and values. That area around the hands is just so complex that you have to tell your brain to look, really look. For me that has become a meditation practise, switching my brain to another mode. I…
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Limited Surface
These long narrow canvases have caught my attention, naturally since I am supposed to be focusing on the 12×12″ ones. I painted the sketch of the dancer on one the other day, and played with how much I could leave off the edge. With this figure I decided to work on fitting the whole figure…
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Party of Four
Back to batching and the collection of canvases in various stages of completion. I worked on these four today, and I enjoyed swapping them back and forth after bringing them on a little, it was a nice change of rhythm after a lot of focus being on one canvas. The bottom right one is probably…
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Charcoal and Gesso Fun
Repeating the pose from yesterday, I used a piece of A2 paper that had some layers of figure drawing practise, each one covered with gesso. This makes for a sumptuous textured surface, and another layer of gesso went over the most recent sketch to make a blank page for this drawing. I used the same…
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Homeward
Travel day today, and I have my four-legged lodger for the night, so a quick turn re-acquainting myself with my studio. Compressed charcoal and clear gesso and marvelling at how strange the easel feels after a week away. Til the morn, Suzanne 642/700
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