Tag: sketching
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Still Salty and Also Blue
100 Day Project Day 27 I have to put this in writing here, the world is terrifying. A lot of very rich people are doing very bad things, and some of them are doing it from a platform that is a public image portraying them as some sort of loving, inclusive hero, when what they…
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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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Not Nice
100 Day Project Day 19 There’s a bit of discourse on the socials about the word nice, and some people are just finding out that being nice isn’t the same thing as being kind, or being good, and that being nice, Nice, is more of a facade that covers a lot of nasty. It’s not…
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Figure Version 5.0
100 Day Project Day 18 Feeling a bit wordless as I’ve already written a post over on Substack today. Paint wise, today I have been working on two things. The first is the contiuning saga (in my head) of an oil painting I am doing for a Let’s Face It class. It’s an interesting one…
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Vermillion and Mars
100 Day Project Day 17 I have a confession to make. I bought the sketchbook. I’m beyond redemption. Oh well, fit a shame, never mind. It won’t arrive for a couple of days, but I did get a new tube of vermillion acrylic as my old one died a death that no swirl aboot with…
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Sketchbook Purchase Averted
100 Day Project Day 14 A new episode of Not A Real Artist, a podcast by Tamara Sagathevan (now Łuć) and Iris Fritschi-Cussens, dropped today. Yay. I love their podcasts, and I quite often put on older episodes in the background while I am creating, because they always spark thoughts, or just give me a…
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Sketching With Oils
100 Day Project Day 13 I took a long time to get going with any sort of art today, despite having scribbled a list of things I wanted to get into to have a full-on art day, hopefully without also flooding the bathroom. It’s just the natural dust settling after my two days of creative…
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Sketchbook flip-through
100 Day Project Day 10 I did not flood anything today. As far as I know. I did some work on my Self Portrait While Kitchen Ceiling Floods. I had to trick myself into picking up the paint brush by telling myself it was only twenty minutes with one colour, which turned into an hour…
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Scent of a Rose finished painting
100 Day Project Day 8 I think I am done with my oil painting. The photo isn’t perfect because some places on the painting are wet, and also we have bright sunshine and this is just a pic for this diary. I don’t paint in oils very often, and I am quite pleased with this,…
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Junk Journal Crow 6/100
100 Day Project Day 6 My junk journal is made from actual junk mail, and it is impossible to be precious about anything that is happening inside it. It just begs to be covered in non-dominant handed scribbles, and layers of grungey texture. That’s where I ended up today, after doing some pottering trying to…
Thrummie Bizzum 