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Blind drawing with charcoal dust and compressed ch

Blind drawing with charcoal dust and compressed charcoal.

I tried this exploration on my return from working in the landscape whilst the experiences were still fresh.

I was blown away by what appeared. I absolutely love the freeness of the marks and the expressiveness (is that a word?) of the gestures. These pieces definitely played a huge role in the development of my latest work: I’m definitely going to make this process part of my practice from now on. I loved the surprises when I opened my eyes.

Who knew?? 😍😍😍😍

So here’s what’s been going on!! I’ve had

So here’s what’s been going on!!

I’ve had a couple of weeks reviewing, reflecting and responding to my explorations of the past few months. I found this difficult at first because all of a sudden, I found myself creating work I hadn’t been endeavouring to make!!! Sounds weird doesn’t it!!!

There I was responding intuitively to being in the landscape, working freely, and boom...... very different work appeared!!! At first I thought I needed to work against this: after all, wasn’t I supposed to be becoming more abstract?? But that would be counter-productive wouldn’t it- if that’s what’s appearing on the canvas, just go with it right?

So I’ve had a couple of weeks working on ‘going with it’ and some interesting things have been happening!!! I’m not sure where this place s going yet, but I’m now really enjoying going with this.

Watch this space: who knows what’ll happen next?? I clearly don’t, but that’s half the fun isn’t it 😍😍😍

So what’s next? 🔈 I came over all discombobu

So what’s next? 🔈

I came over all discombobulated yesterday: after all the continuing work and aspirations to become more abstract and intuitive in my art, I spent a couple of days sketching outdoors and found myself being drawn towards some of the more representational pieces I’d done!!!

What??? But I love abstract work!!! I’ve been trying to leave my representational control freak behind!!! Ironic right? And not a little confusing!!!

So today I spent time going through my intuitive composition sketchbook compiled on @paulinejansart Intuitive Composition course, those where I’ve been using collaged sketches to abstract the landscape, and the series of panels that I’ve started, to review everything that’s going on in my head and heart.

Well it was time well spent: there is a pattern and a theme in what I’ve been doing, I feel a direction beginning to become apparent. The discombobulation was undone and next steps are clearer in my head. I left the studio all set up to get going tomorrow and am really looking forward to cracking on.

The rollercoaster continues.

Plein air success. I’m not a natural at workin

Plein air success.

I’m not a natural at working plein air, but really enjoy it, and I know my work is stronger when I’ve been out in the places I want to paint: my soul soaks it all up. Working with @lewisnoble_artist on his workshops (pre Covid obvs) really helped me with not getting too tight and making more intuitive responses to the landscape in front of me.

So I gathered all my sketches that I did on ‘the mountain’ together and got ready to start ripping things up to create new abstracted compositions, and came across this sketch.

I know you’re not supposed to fall in love with stuff too soon, but I’m not ripping this one up: I like the marks that represent the rock outcrops and stone walls, and the colours work so well. There’s a roughness to it that evokes the moorland brush too.

Compositionally it’s not perfect, and it’s not very abstract, but it encapsulates all that I saw, heard and felt, sitting out on the mountain, and speaks of the sheer contentment that it brings me.

Filling the inspiration tank. I feel so blessed

Filling the inspiration tank.

I feel so blessed to finally be able to travel a little bit further to this stunning mountainside.

I sat for hours today, soaking up the landscape: the way the limestone reaches the surface and creates mini pavements, the incredible gnarliness of the weathered hawthorns seeming to grow straight out of the rock, and the acid green of the moss and rusty bracken on the moorland. Sublime. Simply perfect.

Thumbnail sketches, contour drawings and then I enjoyed using a simple palette of paints to create pieces for use back in the studio.

Feeling so very lucky to be able to spend my days working in an office like this.

Not finished, but so much better. No faffing abo

Not finished, but so much better.

No faffing about today after the ‘overworked it debacle’, just focussing on bold marks, not panicking, and walking away before I allowed myself to fuss.

The change to quin magenta immediately made me happier and I enjoyed mixing this with the black and the green to make some lovely darks. I finished off with neutral greeny wash and let it do it’s thing.

So now I can go back in to these and start being analytical about the composition, start thinking about the values...... and step back and away to squash the ‘Faff Goblin’ from doing its thing!! 🤣🤣

This series of projects with @paulinejansart have been so informative, and great fun, and I’m really beginning to feel that there’s light shining down this tunnel of mine.

I am so loving this art journey: always something new to learn and experience, and so much joy to be had...... even on the ‘faffing’ days!! 🤣🤣🤣

What could be more perfect? ‘Staying local’ m

What could be more perfect?

‘Staying local’ meant I could go to one of my favourite places for the first time in 6 months. I sat in the hazy sun and sketched for hours: tucked out of the wind, accompanied by skylarks, and refuelled my soul.

It was made even better by having the ‘virtual’ company of my art buddy and amazing artist @nataliedayartist : working alongside Natalie I always get so much done as we work and chat together. Hours positively fly by as we create and put the world to rights.

So now I have lots of little abstracted sketches, mostly in black and white, which means that I’m looking forward to getting back up there tomorrow to do some more pieces using paint.

A very good day.

When you totally stuff it up!! 🤣🤦‍♀️🤣

It’s been a lovely day: spring warmth; a lovely walk in the sunshine before settling into the studio; key intentions written large on a canvas; wood burner keeping the temperature cwtchy, and quality hours painting. What could be better?

Not overworking and wrecking a new piece, that’s what!!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It was all going so well: keeping things simple, trying to use big shapes and not get too fussy, then I noticed that I needed to vary the margins where light and dark met a bit more, and then I needed to vary the size of the shapes....... and you guessed it, I just kept going and lost all my subtle colours and ended up with a very dark design!!!!

Hey it’s all learning right??? 🤣🤷‍♀️🤣

So, to quote Scarlet O’Hara, “Tomorrow is another day,” and it will involve gesso and starting over, paying more attention to your advice @paulinejansart to “step back” !!!!

Onwards friends, ever onwards!! 🤣🤣❤️❤️

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