Tag: mixed media
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Blue Woman
This orange background has been sitting in my stash for a short age, and then today I added more stencilling around the edge, and added this sitting figure that I am enjoying just now. She isn’t finished, but I know what I want to do next, and I’ll let that be my starting place tomorrow.…
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Analogous
The absolute privilege of being able to shut myself off from the world for a couple of hours and just play with paint, make absolutely terrible portraits, and have my biggest existential dilemma be whether I want to be a person who has clean stencils, or a person who has gorgeoulsy grungey stencils is not…
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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…
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Scream III
Have I told you how much my new workbench has changed things? I am sure that I have, but I will say it again, my new workbench has changed everything. There’s probably a stand-alone story I could write about that particular room, and the crazymaker person who… yes… I’ll spend some time writing that story,…
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Old Painting as Reference
I am still processing being woken up at 5am by two baby magpies knocking on my bedroom windowsill. I am convinced they knew exactly what they were doing. They didn’t even bring me treasure, and it is my birthday tomorrow, so something is going wrong somewhere in the great universal order. There is no universal…
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Skins and Sketchbooks
I was not in the mood for more screaming today, although that’s not to say there wasn’t internal screaming going on reading the news and propaganda. I shall say this, I do not believe that any group of people is more worthy, or chosen, than any other group of people. My feminism, my smashing of…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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The Workbench Works
My new workbench arrived and I am completely smitten. It’s absolutely perfect. It will take a few days for me to sort out what goes where, because this workbench is going to be a workbench, not a handy flat surface to store odd things. It’s actually smaller than the wobbly table it is replacing, but…
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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…
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