Tag: mixed media
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Table Incoming
I’m so excited 😃 Yesterday I ordered a table that I have been hankering after for ages. I’ve chosen it as my birthday present, and I can’t wait. It’s a workshop table, and it’s going to sort-of replace the one I have that is a bit wobbly. The new one is height-adjustable, has power outlets,…
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Collecting Screams
Today I did a lot of tidying in my art spaces, clearing the decks, so to speak. My dogsitting decamp to downstairs left a lot of things lying around mid-flow, and I am not in the same place now, so I reset my space so I can find out where I am. One thing that…
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Turquoise Hair
Today I did some practise with gestural figure drawing, and a bit of colour. I like what happened here. Til the morn, Suzanne 145/200
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Pushing Back
Today was Day 1 of trying to reset my routine again, after my adorable lodger went home. I am not good at switching routines, so it will take me a few days to get back into the swing of things. This hasn’t been helped by an all day headache, meh. I did get back to…
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Mark Making
The house feels empty now my lodger has departed. Humph. I wasn’t feeling arty at all today, but we started returning things to their usual places so that I can jump back in tomorrow with my familiar set up. I did do a bit of mark-making in my Seawhite journal, on a page that already…
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Post Election Blues
We got the Tories out. Yay! Labour won, if you don’t look too closely at the details, but we think Starmer is a disaster in waiting. Scotland gave the SNP a bloody nose, that wasn’t unexpected, but was somewhat bloodied than expected. Frustrating and disappointing. Lots of bigots lost seats, but England returned some fash,…
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Divergent Referencing
I saw a conversation online the other day that I keep thinking about. I wasn’t part of the conversation, I just read it, and then thought a lot about it. Someone had posted a painting they had done using a reference, and they had included the reference, and a bit about how they had interpreted…
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Deer Morning
A morning walk in the cool, dampness with my senior lodger was a lovely way to start a new day. We were surprised by a Roe Deer, who was just as surprised by us, and I knew it would be a better day. The deer was in a place it isn’t supposed to be, as…
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Do you?
Do you name your sketchbooks? I think I am going to think about naming my sketchbooks, especially since I am writing about them, and ‘A5 Seawhite’ is kind of boring. Anyway, I took a day off hares, not least because I had an idea that requires another watercolour block to rotate, and that won’t arrive…
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Overthinking
I was really pleased with yesterday’s hare painting, and it gave me lots of ideas, and today I got set up with my timer, which is my new favourite motivator, and then I observed how tight I was. I set up a watercolour block, so better paper than the gessoed cartridge paper that is just…
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Hare Timing
Yesterday I tried setting a timer, and using that to keep me focused on making art and not getting distracted, and it did work, but if I’m being honest with myself, yesterday there was still a lot of faffing. Today I set my timer for one hour, plus five minutes to give myself time to…
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Loose Hare
Painting from my sketches is something I am having fun with just now. It’s a really fun way to loosen up, and find character in drawings, or find a different character from the first drawing. It’s also a really handy practise on those Don’t Know What To Paint days – just grab a sketchbook, and…
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