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Holiday studio
Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...
Gillian Holding
Sep 3, 20131 min read
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East Coast Table Art
A few ingredients: 1. Flying visit to Louvre to see the Giotto exhibition 2. A box of crayons lurking in bottom of overloaded bag 3. A...
Gillian Holding
May 16, 20131 min read
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Found some Crayons
Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait
Gillian Holding
Apr 30, 20131 min read
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Showing Process
I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...
Gillian Holding
Apr 17, 20131 min read
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Street wanderings
I’ve been in the studio every spare second this week. When I’ve not been driving the backstreets of south Leeds in search of target...
Gillian Holding
Mar 3, 20131 min read
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Thumbnails
#drawing #projectprocess
Gillian Holding
Feb 25, 20131 min read
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Woman asleep on Train
Yes. Absolutely. It is intrusive behaviour, and goodness knows how I’d feel if someone captured me with my head back, mouth open and an...
Gillian Holding
Feb 24, 20131 min read
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Real Life Class
Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...
Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20131 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20131 min read
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Charger
#ArtStudio #digitaldrawings #drawing
Gillian Holding
Jan 26, 20131 min read
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Canal St Martin in Snow
#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing
Gillian Holding
Jan 19, 20131 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Dec 28, 20121 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Oct 24, 20121 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 6, 20121 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 4, 20121 min read
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A Leeds Stroll #gristtothemill
Last summer I completed a large drawing installation for the On The Edge festival in Leeds, mapping through drawing the demographic...
Gillian Holding
Jun 15, 20122 min read
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#gristtothemill street scenes
Busy busy busy at the moment. But busy on a sewing machine rather than in a sketchbook or in the studio. Creating a large machined...
Gillian Holding
Jun 12, 20121 min read
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#gristtothemill in sun
Lazy days. I just want to sit out or lie down in the sun. This might be summer. It’s bound to rain over the Jubilee weekend....
Gillian Holding
May 29, 20121 min read
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#gristtothemill #77
Been drawing this scene in idle moments for years. Surreptitiously. I’m supposed to be concentrating and listening and absorbing. Soon...
Gillian Holding
May 20, 20121 min read
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#gristtothemill #76
Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...
Gillian Holding
May 19, 20121 min read
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