Tag: sketchbook
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Unsettled
100 Day Project Day 70 Things are not very easy at the moment here in Bizzum Towers. Our government (Scottish) is in the process of collapsing, and a bunch of right wing bangers are eyeing power, and some of them are within the party clinging to power, and some are not. It is very unsettling,…
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Random Emergency Sketch
100 Day Project Day 68 I was planning a day of painting and drawing, but that didn’t happen. Scottish politics saw some seismic activity, and one of my Special Interests is politics, and so I was engrossed. It does not feel like a good day. In other news… if someone love-bombs you then apparently rejects…
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Developing Photos
100 Day Project Day 57 A little thing I have been doing recently is using my own landscape photos as references in my sketchbook practise. Sometimes it’s an exercise in colour and tonal value, and sometimes it’s about observing perspective, and sometimes it’s about rejecting parts of what is in the photo to make a…
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One pose four drawings
100 Day Project Day 55 I spent a couple of hours doing figure drawing practise today. I chose one pose from the Figure Drawing Studio CD and used it as my reference. There’s a lot of foreshortening in the pose, so it’s a good challenge for my brain to try and render what I am…
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Toes!
100 Day Project Day 54 I’ve noticed a weird thing going on. If I write a blog and post it here, I don’t have so many attachments to what happens after. Some people read it (thank you!), some like it (thank you!), and a couple of people comment (very thank you!). If I post elsewhere,…
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Blogging is self-care
100 Day Project Day 53 I was having a conversation about blogging, and showing up to create every day, and the way that has turned into a form of self-care. The friend I was having the conversation with described her stash of art materials, and the fact she just can’t just now, and her self-care…
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Speechless
100 Day Project Day 52 I watched the Netflix documentary The Anti-Social Network last night, and it’s a wild ride in terms of condensing the reasons we are where we are in terms of truth and discourse. I highly recommend it. I’m thinking about it a lot as a watch the Scottish political scene descending…
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Monday
100 Day Project Day 51 I showed up. I did some figure studies. I bear witness to the footage coming out of the remains of al-Shifa hospital, and the horror exacted on those people. I cannot respect anyone who supports this, or who argues that the people doing this, or those supplying them with the…
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Fifty
100 Day Project Day 50 I’ve reached day 50 of this blogging and arting project, and that feels like a bit of an achievement. Today is just a quick first layer of a face in my sketchbook, because that’s enough some days. If you have been following along for these fifty days, what are you…
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More Gesture Drawing
100 Day Project Day 48 Today’s practise included more gesture drawing in my sketchbooks. I am currently working in an A5 spiral bound book, and a cheap A4 hardcover thing I found on a shelf. The paper in that one isn’t great, so I coat it with sludge gesso before I use it for painting.…
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Gesture drawing and mist
100 Day Project Day 47 There really wasn’t a lot of time for art today, although there was probably more time than I’m letting on. Ha. That said, I did go to my sketchbook to do some practise, because this is a daily habit, whether it is minutes or hours, and all my art making…
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Thirty Minutes
100 Day Project Day 46 Sometimes all you have is a short window of opportunity, and it becomes a choice whether to take the risk and fail, and then have a choice about whether to bereal, or skip a day. A lot of online art sharing is art sharing, not practise sharing, and I think…
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