Tag: sketchbook
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Toothiness
100 Day Project Day 41 I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been…
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New Sketchbook Not Sorry
100 Day Project Day 40 I’ve been working in my sketchbooks today. I’m currently drawn to an A5 spiral bound one that is filling up nicely. I also pulled out a blank A4 sketchbook, and started it off with four pages of painting. I recently bought two different sketchbook roughly this size, three if you…
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Monday Musing
100 Day Project Day 37 I spent a lot of time in my sketchbooks today, and played with different materials: black fineliner, a grey lilac brushmarker from a set I never use, and my tub of mixed oil pastels that I also never use. I took stock of all my sketchbooks, just to try and…
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Sketchbook Practise
100 Day Project Day 36 I currently have two new sketchbooks on order despite not having recently finished one, and despite the fact I have a pile of blank sketchbooks of various sizes and paper quality. The problem is that none of those sketchbooks are the specific size and paper quality of the two on…
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Tonal Values Exercise
100 Day Project Day 35 I’m on a bit of a deep-dive with tonal values and colour. I know the theory, and the ways artists use it, and how it works. I just haven’t been consciously applying it to my own art making. I think that might be because I am always wrestling with the…
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Junk Journal Jotting
100 Day Project Day 34 My favourite kind of Scottish weather is horizontal rain while the sun shines. The contradictions and improbability light up my soul. We had some today, right on the back of everyone celebrating the wheel turning, and the arrival of spring. I’m celebrating the continued attempt at winter, given the fact…
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Procrastination Summited
100 Day Project Day 28 Today I was absolutely committed to finishing the oil painting class that has been hanging around forever. It didn’t need a lot done to finish it, it’s just that it ended up in the Procrastination Place, so every step ended up seeming more monumental than it really was. I enjoyed…
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Lotus Pods
100 Day Project Day 24 Last night an idea developed in my imagination that started out from, actually I’ll save that part of the story and tell it when/if the idea is resolved on a canvas. The next develpoment of the idea was this morning’s sketchbook practise, that involved making these graphite studies of lotus…
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Landscape Sketch
100 Day Project Day 22 A driech day, but perfect for a wander with the lodger lurcher, and driech means less bams. We wandered the edge of the field, and I took some photos for references later. Our lodger, however, was much more interested in sniffs, especially sniffs outwith his usual repertoire. He’s an older…
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Sketchbook Saturday
100 Day Project Day 21 Day 2 working in my sketchbook with limited supplies while keeping my lodger dog company. He slept like a log. I filled 10 pages in one of my A5 books, using coloured pencils, neocolor II crayons, watercolours, and water brushes in various combinations. My favourites are the two portraits in…
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Lurcher Lodger
100 Day Project Day 20 I have a doggie pal lodging for the weekend, which is food for the soul. He’s a bit of an old man, so I will probably be lodged downstairs on the couch keeping him company. That’s what I did this afternoon, and I took a sketchbook and a limited selection…
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