Gillian Holding
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...
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Gillian Holding
- May 16, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 30, 2013
- 1 min
Found some Crayons
Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 17, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 3, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 24, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 23, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 23, 2013
- 1 min
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, 2013
- 1 min
Canal St Martin in Snow
#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing
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Gillian Holding
- Dec 28, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Oct 24, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Jul 6, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Jun 15, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 12, 2012
- 1 min
#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...
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Gillian Holding
- May 29, 2012
- 1 min
#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....
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Gillian Holding
- May 20, 2012
- 1 min
#gristtothemill #77
Been drawing this scene in idle moments for years. Surreptitiously. I’m supposed to be concentrating and listening and absorbing. Soon...
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Gillian Holding
- May 19, 2012
- 1 min
#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...
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