Day 44. Well how about that. Practically half way and I haven’t missed a day yet. Have spent the past few days being inspired by my daughter and her friend’s henna painting on their hands. If you’re curious, you can check it out on my Instagram. Today, however, I decided to try and knock Klee … Continue reading Day 44 – Darktown Cove
Yesterday, I completed DUCA and my Instagram friends have shared lots of lovely support and encouragement with that experiment. I’ve also met some other artists working with the concept of repetition and grids over the past few days, and that’s been fun too. The title of this post refers to the fact that I am … Continue reading Day 33 – Wandering Third
Today I decided to complete the Bat Biscuits grid and I’m kind of happy with how it turned out actually. I want to take this in some other directions and do some other iterations, but I feel like I’ve strayed from my original project idea which was to study the compositions of artists I really … Continue reading Day 29 – Wiggly Grid
Rose to my own challenge to change pens, which was easy because I fell down the rabbit hole of Tom Hackney‘s exhibition Corresponding Squares at the World Chess Hall of Fame. This show is about the chess games of Marcel Duchamp and I was particularly invigorated by Chess Painting No. 88 (Vajda vs. Duchamp, Nice, … Continue reading Day 24 – Hackney Knight
Day 4 of #100daysofemdash is a study of another one of my favourite paintings which again is, in my mind, also about typography. This picture is Meem One (1967) by Anwar Jalal Shemza, an artist I discovered at an exhibition at the Tate last year and have had an ongoing obsession with ever since. Shemza … Continue reading Day 4 – Meem One
Day 3 of my #100daysofemdash, which you can follow if you’re REALLY INTERESTED on Instagram and Twitter (please follow me, I have so few friends on these accounts it makes me feel socially inadequate to only get likes from commercial companies and SEO consultants). Today was a composition study of Jonny Hannah’s Mermaid Cafe. So, … Continue reading Day 3 – Mermaid Cafe
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