Tag: Sketchbook Practise
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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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Rotating Sketchbooks
I spent the day in several sketchbooks today, rotating as things dried. This is a process I enjoy, and find it results in ideas springing out of nowhere. This happened today, but the first version of the idea required my printer for a part of it, and my printer wasn’t playing. It’s the first time…
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I Can’t Paint
The mantra reverberates around my brain, sometimes it’s so much a part of the background noise, that I don’t even hear it. It’s ingrained. It has different clothes, sometimes. Sometimes it tells me I can’t do this, or I can’t do that, or I shouldn’t do this, or that. It’s every version of Not Good…
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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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Five Minutes Hare
Time is short today, still showed up. Til the morn, Suzanne 116/200
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Hare Brained
My lodger has departed *sniff* I need no presents or rewards for dog-sitting, but a beautiful sketchbook was given to me anyway, and I seem to need a lot of sketchbooks. Ha. This one is 120gsm paper, so I’m inspired to just use it for graphite sketching. It’s 9×12″ so it’s a nice size for…
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Wildflowers
Happy Sunday I don’t have a lot of chat today, mostly because I had a lively night of insomnia, and I’m knackered. We are still dog-sitting, and on one of our daunders I spotted a nice clump of purple Granny’s Bonnets sharing space with some dainty Cow Parsely, and so that’s what I sketched in…
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Art on the Sofa
My wee bam, who is my parent’s dog, is lodging for a couple of nights. He’s a senior boy, and now comes with a bag of medications and instructions. I try not to think about whether this might be a last visit with us, but the thought crosses my mind. I absolutely treat him like…
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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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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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