Tag: mixed media
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Bad Hair Day
100 Day Project Day 64 There’s a lovely post circulating the socials at the moment that tells the story of a studio who sacked artists and hired ai prompters to do the job instead, and they couldn’t do it. Their prompts didn’t generate quality work, and when they were sent back to make changes, of…
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Poop
100 Day Project Day 63 I ruined a drawing today. I’m not joking, I might as well have wiped sewage all over it. In fact it kind of looks like I did. I was incredibly frustrated with it, and the way the painting was going, and I have literally shelved it. I am not amused.…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
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Painting from my own painting
100 Day Project Day 39 A fun way to practise is copying your own work, it’s a good exercise in trying to recreate colours, and shapes, and it’s also interesting to see where the energy of a piece goes on the next take. I was playing with this idea today by taking a recent face…
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Sketchbook Practise
100 Day Project Day 36 I currently have two new sketchbooks on order despite not having recently finished one, and despite the fact I have a pile of blank sketchbooks of various sizes and paper quality. The problem is that none of those sketchbooks are the specific size and paper quality of the two on…
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Tonal Values Exercise
100 Day Project Day 35 I’m on a bit of a deep-dive with tonal values and colour. I know the theory, and the ways artists use it, and how it works. I just haven’t been consciously applying it to my own art making. I think that might be because I am always wrestling with the…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Old Copper and Rust
100 Day Project Day 32 It’s funny how a day that starts out in a clusterbùrach, and looks like it is going to be a write-off can be turned into a day that is good, and all it took was picking up a palette knife and scraping some paint around. I didn’t think I was…
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Productive Play
100 Day Project Day 31 Today I have been switching between several projects, anjoying being in The Zone, and tryingt to ignore whatever my perimenopausal body is throwing at me today. I’m definitely not going to be officially at menopause in March next year, ho hum. I was playing with coloured pencils doing some mini…
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Photo Finish and Pots
100 Day Project Day 30 I finished a class painting. Woo Hoo. It’s for the Let’s Face It course I am doing, and I am so pleased to have completed Week 8 on the day the Week 12 class drops. Ha. I lost the momemtum a bit around mid February, and I think that’s just…
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Cerulean Blue Muse
100 Day Project Day 4 I am still wildly procrastinating over finishing an oil painting I am working on. It really only needs one more pass, but my flow was interrupted, and now it has this invisible and currently impenetrable shield around it. It’s productive procrastination, tho, as I have been doing a bit of…
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Ill-tricket
I find the paintings that I like most, whether they are mine, or someone else’s, are not Nice paintings. I like finding the darker vibe, the shadows, and the ill-tricket energy.
Thrummie Bizzum 