Tag: sketchbook
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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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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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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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Charcoal Perspective
I surprised myself by sticking with the goal and doing the 100 Day Project, and I surprised myself again today by tackling this week’s Let’s Face It class and completing it on the same day. Despite being a wee bit intimidated by the class objectives… To use charcoal powder and a square Sofft tool to…
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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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Filling Pages
100 Day Project Day 97 Continuing the Sketchbook Project of finishing my current A5 spiralbound sketchbook the same day I finish the 100 Day Project, I had the target of filling four pages today, and what do I do? Yes, I start flinging wet materials including modelling paste at the first spread, which means waiting…
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Operation Sketchbook
100 Day Project Day 96 I’m still thinking that it would be affa fine to finish one of my sketchbooks alongside completing the 100 Day Project, so I’ve put little page markers in the book to mark out how many pages I need to fill each day to get it done. It’s basically two spreads,…
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