Tag: painting
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Gel Plate Painting
I don’t really have much to say today, other than someone has treated me very poorly, and I am quite upset about it. I had absolutely zero appetite for painting, but I managed to do a gel plate pull into my sketchbook. It’s a technique I have tried before, and it really needs a longer…
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Pinktastic
I always have an odd day recalibrating after visitors, even if the main visitor has four legs. A change of routine, even just for three days, takes me a minute to come back from. With that in mind, I’m being kind with myself for not getting much at all done today, other than scrolling in…
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Seeing Red Has Value
I’m having a poor mental health day today. I know exactly why that is, and I know that it will pass, it’s just a thing that happens the day before a Thing happens. It’s not hormonal, it’s another Thing. When this happens, everything else is magnified, and it doesn’t take much to set of a…
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Clowning Around
Yesterday I read that Meta scraped everyone’s images for their AI enshittification before they offered the opt-out, and the opt-out is only available to folk in the EU. The opt-out doesn’t appear to work for me on Instagram, and given Scotland was dragged out of the EU against our will, I don’t know if it…
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Finding the Switch
One of those days where I procrastinated all day about painting, and thinking I was on the verge of breaking my streak… I pulled out my Seawhite sketchbook and did some mark-making across random pages. It’s starting to feel lived-in, and a couple of spreads are starting to look like interesting backgrounds. After that I…
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Sketchbook Sunday
Rotating sketchbooks as pages dry is one of my favourite ways of working, although sometimes the day doesn’t seem to have much to show for it. Both my junk journal and my Seawhite A5 are books where I do random layers here and there throughout the book, and at some point a page or spread…
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New Phone Bleurgh
I have 104 blank painting surfaces that aren’t paper – stretched canvases, canvas boards, linen canvases, wooden panels and gesso boards. They vary in size from teeny tiny 4×5″ to 24×30″ and I have accumulated them over a long time. Some of them were lost in boxes in the garage, which is perhaps why more…
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Crappy Day
I do not like days like today. I smashed my phone screen. I’ve never managed that before, but wow did I smash it. I’m really frustrated because the phone is perfectly serviceable, and had a lot of life left in it. I am not one for replacing phones every five minutes, and had no plans…
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Organising
A lot of things were accomplished today that did not involve drawing or painting. A patio area was extended, which sounds a lot more glamorous than simply making a wheelie bin corner a bit more accessible, but it got done. I confess that I did not employ my own patio laying skills of yore, and…
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100 Days! Done!
100 Day Project Day 100 I feel like I have accomplished something, but pinning down exactly what that is is a little more difficult. In terms of numbers, I have definitely made art every day for 100 Days, and posted a blog every day for 100 Days, but those are just numbers, and the things…
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Page After Page
100 Day Project Day 99 My hands are covered in paint and various mediums, and there are all sorts of art supplies spread out on every available surface, and my paint water jars are disgusting, and I have been working in my sketchbooks for around four hours, maybe more. I did have half an hour…
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One Man and His Beard
100 Day Project Day 93 Mister Beard is finished. There’s a lot of things I could pick apart, but on the whole I am happy with this. I do not play with my watercolours often enough, so this was good practise. I’m happy with his shiny bald head 😀 Til the morn, Suzanne
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