Tag: mixed media
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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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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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