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Gillian Holding
Jun 24, 20151 min read
Felt pens
screen shot (felt pen) Some book I was reading the other day called for a commitment by the reader-artist to draw from life a minimum of...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 18, 20151 min read
Another Tourist View
tourist View (Canadian Rockies) Last year I had something of an eipiphany when I realised I was more interested in the tourists than the...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 16, 20151 min read
Shellac experiments
study on shellac (drama extract) Been meaning for ages to try out painting with oil on paper sized with shellac instead of oil primer....
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Gillian Holding
Jun 10, 20151 min read
Underpainting bondage
girl with doll (II) (underpainting) The major preoccupation of the last couple of months has been to check the authenticity and integrity...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 8, 20151 min read
Yet more perils: Plein Air
Belvedere and High Rises across the Buttes Chaumont Mad impulse to paint outdoors on this fine sunny day. Mad because it meant walking...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 7, 20151 min read
The perils of ink
bikes, rue Bichat Enough of oil. Back to inky drawings and water pen. Still no relief from unwanted Rorschach tattoos though. The pen lid...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 6, 20152 min read
Perils of Prussian Blue
works in progress The other day I was seized by an impulse to use a mix of Prussian blue and Cadmium Red for a painting. Poking around...
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Gillian Holding
May 29, 20151 min read
Imagination in play
doll with soldier (study) oil on paper 120cm x 100cm Painting out of the imagination with absolutely no reference materials to hand, no...
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Gillian Holding
May 26, 20151 min read
More unconscious paint…
study (lemon yellow) oil on board 9″ x 10″ a day of priming apart from 15 minutes messing with lemon yellow.
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Gillian Holding
May 20, 20151 min read
Tourist View (Canadian Rockies)
Tourist View (Canadian Rockies) oil on paper 100 x 150cm On holiday last year, it took me a week or so to realise I was more interested...
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Gillian Holding
May 19, 20151 min read
Nose
painting from sketch of actor on tv Justifying watching Netflix.
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Gillian Holding
May 18, 20151 min read
Painting in Women’s Hour
oil study (sacrifice of the feminine) (soldier) (oil on paper 110 x 80cm) Stuff’s a bit busy what with convergence of my taxi driver role...
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Gillian Holding
May 15, 20151 min read
Accidental discoveries
accidentally discovering a perfect new transfer medium Transfer mediums never seem to work as easily and effortlessly as I want....
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Gillian Holding
May 13, 20151 min read
Holbeck Fringes
Back in the studio, the remnant of old canvas I decided to recycle proved an unforgiving and slow surface. After a few hours of scrubbing...
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Gillian Holding
May 7, 20151 min read
Sketch to Paint
Redrawing a sketch in paint Starting the day in the studio, some form of warm up exercise is always a nice idea. Plucking a sketch from...
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Gillian Holding
May 6, 20151 min read
Banal beautification
Domestic Street, looking south-ish One problem with studying the banal is the issue of beauty. Just because a subject is boringly...
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Gillian Holding
May 5, 20151 min read
Playing With Paint
Holbeck Viaduct (detail) work in progress More work on the old surface using up old materials to depict a Holbeck panorama. #holbeck...
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Gillian Holding
May 4, 20151 min read
Chomskyan Non-abstract
Visiting a brilliant Cornelia Parker exhibition today at the stunningly-refurbished Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, we were riveted...
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