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  • From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    I had a little tidying and organising session today. I gathered together a bunch of things that I had stored in several different places and sorted them into groups of similar things. They are all things I have collected to use on the gel plates, but I never pull them out because they are in…

  • Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    I have been testing an inkjet image of this drawing which was printed on copy paper the same day I made prints using all the different papers. The test is simply spraying a small section of the print with water, and seeing what happens. The first test was the day the print was made, and…

  • Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina

    Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina

    I’m back in the studio today, but yesterday definitely filled the well, and there are lots of ideas, and I’m making notes of them, because I’m incredibly talented at generating ideas and forgetting them within a day. I’m still playing with image transfer ideas and techniques, specifically inkjet print image transfers. The portrait prints I…

  • Transparency Discrepancy

    Transparency Discrepancy

    Today’s timed sketch was done using only the Blackwing 602 pencil and my shammy cloth. I think I prefer mixing the types of graphite. Now onto the main event – experimenting with the transparencies. Yesterday I printed my drawing onto tissue paper, and it was very fragile, but gave a promising result, even on a…

  • Sketch and Image Transfer

    Sketch and Image Transfer

    This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…

  • Sketching Therapy

    Sketching Therapy

    Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500

  • Contrast

    Contrast

    That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500

  • Mood

    Mood

    Sketchbook practise twenty minutes portrait. More chat tomorrow. Til the morn Suzanne 420/500

  • Sketchbook Pages

    Sketchbook Pages

    I haven’t been posting from my sketchbooks recently, so here are a couple from the sketchbook I’m working in the most at the moment. It is a 9×12″ spiral bound sketchbook in portrait format with slightly toothy paper. I use it for my morning sketch practise, which is currently focused on portrait drawing, but that…

  • Duck Face

    Duck Face

    I have posted most of my morning sketches, but it’s a practise I am enjoying. I confess they are not always a morning sketch, but they are always the first art that I do. They are a great way to warm up and get the synapses sparking. I have come to a few conclusions today,…

  • Good Habits

    Good Habits

    I am singing the praises of the twenty minute sketch habit today, it really has changed my days for the better. By giving me a set thing to do first thing, I don’t end up overthinking and procrastinating about what I’m going to create, I just get the sketch done and the rest of the…

  • 100 Day Project Day 2

    100 Day Project Day 2

    I started the art day with a twenty minute timed sketch, and this is feeling good as a way to start the day. I’m probably going to use that practise as a first sketch for my 100 Day one hour portraits, it’s a good way to get a feel for the shapes before starting with…