Tag: sketchbook

  • Still Life Cupcake

    Still Life Cupcake

    Happy Birthday to me πŸ™‚ I hope this still life study of a red velvet cupcake is up to standard because I can’t paint it again because I ate it πŸ™‚ Celebrate yourself. Til the morn, Suzanne 158/200

  • Old Painting as Reference

    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…

  • Skins and Sketchbooks

    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…

  • Eight Times One Face

    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,…

  • Table Incoming

    Table Incoming

    I’m so excited πŸ˜ƒ 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,…

  • Keep the hand in

    Keep the hand in

    I had a bit of an Artist Date today, and went for a beach walk. I prefer going in the early morning, but today it was lunchtime, and busy. I’ve been doing some miles this week, and just between yesterday and today I’ve walked 11 miles, 35 miles for the week. I wish my weird…

  • Still Collecting Screams

    Still Collecting Screams

    The first sketch I did today was from a previous sketch of mine. I was testing an Art Graf product, and I remember I really liked it, and yet I haven’t used it much. Note to self. Trying to replicate a complex facial expression with my scratchy shitty brush was a challenge. I wasn’t going…

  • Collecting Screams

    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…

  • Turquoise Hair

    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

  • It’s Just Paint

    It’s Just Paint

    I remember when getting the Tories out meant getting the Tories out. It no longer does. They’re wearing a different coloured ribbon, tho, woop woop. I wrote a long political post, and then condensed it down to the above. There you have it. We aren’t headed in a good direction. Anyway, I got a bit…

  • Practise Makes Progress

    Practise Makes Progress

    Today I pulled out my A4 sketchbook and plastered some gesso onto some pages. They probably don’t need the gesso for what I planned to do, but spreading gesso on a page is as much of a ritual and a signal as it is a specific requirement. It tells you something is happening. Even though…

  • Pushing Back

    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…