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Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20131 min read
Life Class
I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 19, 20131 min read
Canal St Martin in Snow
#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing
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Gillian Holding
Dec 28, 20121 min read
App Update: Art Studio
Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my...
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Gillian Holding
Nov 9, 20121 min read
Painting Pleasure
The tendency after any sort of show for me is to sink into a state of overwhelming lassitude. Psychologically, I’m on a roll, but with no...
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Gillian Holding
Oct 28, 20121 min read
Assembling Snippets
#contemporaryart #westbournegrove #Portraiture #digitaldrawing #Identity #urbandrawing #digitalart
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Gillian Holding
Oct 26, 20121 min read
More Figures
#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing
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Gillian Holding
Oct 25, 20121 min read
More snippets of Westbourne Grove
I’ve discovered that trying to draw on a laptop on a rattling train makes me train sick. Good job there are no more train journeys over...
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Gillian Holding
Oct 24, 20121 min read
Westbourne Grove Drawings continue apace…
I’d hoped to find a way of posting these daily tasters on the fb event page but the system is defeating me. I have to admit some days I...
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Gillian Holding
Oct 23, 20121 min read
Latest Projects
Westbourne Grove (a portrait of everyday) (detail of collage element) It’s been a while… but things get busy… the drawings are coming...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 23, 20121 min read
Enamel Enamoured #gristtothemill
After a busy couple of weeks spent staring at computer screens producing work for various festivals here, there and just about...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 11, 20121 min read
Finally done #gristtothemill
All done. Save mounting and finishing. The great thing about seeing any idea through to completion is the way I want to immediately start...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 9, 20121 min read
Revealing layers #gristtothemill
Tore away the masking tape this afternoon. I quite like it. Bit more to do tomorrow then it’s done. It’s at the abstract stage: the...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 8, 20121 min read
Figurative Abstracted #gristtothemill
Nerve-racking stuff painting through the last few days. Some bits working well. Some not so well. It’s at times like this I feel like...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 7, 20121 min read
Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill
Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 6, 20121 min read
Underpainting #gristtothemill
Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 4, 20121 min read
In search of Hands
The hands have it today. A week of making up poses and narratives has sent me scurrying in search of those masters of narrative posing to...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 2, 20121 min read
And yet more (on identity) #gristtothemill
No time in the studio now until Thursday. It’s one of those weeks when I really wish the rest of the world didn’t exist. I don’t mean...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 1, 20121 min read
More on identity #gristtothemill
Painting figures in ridiculous poses from imagination is sometimes very very hard and very very frustrating. I need a ten year...
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