Tag: sketchbook
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Resistance Every Day
I show up here every day, even if I only have a teeny tiny piece of art that is the sole creative output of my day. I show up because once I have been here and posted ‘this is what I made today’ I know that I have beaten fitever wur cauin the deil the…
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Blue Hair Day
Today I did some studio housekeeping, tidying overgrown piles, washing some gesso brushes, putting manky water in the cat litter bucket. Very glamourous. Then I worked in some sketchbooks, and procrastinated about virtually everything, and it was not creative or productive procrastination, it was unadulterated overwhelm at the state of the world. Eventually I got…
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Crooked Street
Using some of my photographs from last week’s trip to Orkney as references, I did some painting in my sketchbook. I limited my palette to three colours and titanium white – phthalo turquoise, naples yellow red and permanent red violet light. I used one scratchy brush for the undersketch, and then one flat brush for…
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Wednesday
Today was a day with a LOT. I’m knackered. My mini sketch for the day is inspired by a street in Stromness. I took lots of photos for later, but this was drawn just from memory and imagination. Til the morn, Suzanne 221/300
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Challenging angle
Challenging angles are my brain food. Til the morn, Suzanne 215/300
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Not A Swatch
I mean I was swatching and playing with colour today, but I needed to paint *something* other than pretty, wonky squares. Til the morn, Suzanne 213/300
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Monday Moulachin
Moulachin aboot nae muckle tae show fur it, ken. A bit of Scots language there, for you. Swatching acrylics again today, and isn’t it pretty? I really haven’t done this for a long time, and it shows. I’m doing this in part to kind of appraise what I have, because I have so many paints…
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Sunday Swatching
Some twat was prevaricating about how pointless swatching colours is, that it isn’t creative, and that it spoils sketchbooks, or wastes them, or some tripe. I was good, and I scrolled on past that negativity like a goddess fully in control of her impulses. Swatching is cerative practise. Of course it is. It tells you…
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Non Day
Mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 209/300
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Reaching
I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…
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