Gillian Holding
#gristtothemill #75
Ok, so I’ve done some further thinking. This blog is ultimately looking at the creative process from my personal perspective. It began...
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Gillian Holding
- May 14, 2012
- 2 min
Rethinking #dailyfail #74
It’s springtime and time to re-think the purpose and function of #dailyfail. It’s all about looking at the process of creativity. It...
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Gillian Holding
- May 8, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #73
Well, it’s been something of a daily failure to achieve anything creative this last week. I’ve not been idle, but if I’m honest, it takes...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 22, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #70
After four months, I’m forced to add a new category. Digital. The whole point initially of #dailyfail was to return to the unambiguous...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 8, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #66
Away from the mothership and with limited materials and time to hand, and with a lot of background work to do following my joint of the...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 6, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #65
I’m really enjoying messing with the MagicShutter photo app, and using it to draw. It has some amazing possibilities: a degree of control...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 5, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #64
Stuck in traffic circling London, art materials safely packed out of sight, darkness falling and the dawning realisation we will not be...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 30, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #62
The under layers of a new work. I like documenting work in progress. It’s all part of the digital revolution. A hundred photos taken...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 27, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #59
More basic observational stuff. I’m on a once-a-week commute to London at the moment. Lots of train time for surreptitious drawing of...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 26, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #58
Back to basics. Basic observational drawing. Himself has been having boxing lessons for a while now and I kept saying I would quite like...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 13, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #52
More crayon and combining all that I dislike in a cute pet subject in pastel colors. Things are quite distracted at present. All the more...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 9, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #51
Caran d’ache crayons lurking in the bottom of my bag and a new sketchbook/journal with really nice paper that looks as though it will...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 6, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #48
What I’m most enjoying about the whole #dailyfail exercise is the complete freedom from having to justify time, concept, context, skill,...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 4, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #47
More breaking of self imposed “rules” on a series of daily challenges resolutely NOT using digital technology but then again the whole...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 29, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #46
I’ve been varnishing furniture in an obsessive-compulsive fashion today, having just refurbished a bedroom with predominantly dark oak...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 27, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #45
Still on the greyness of the A58 into town. I am waiting for a decent spell in the studio to do something with these images racing...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #43
Sitting in a cafe, looking out on a grey rainy day, I noticed with interest the dull greyness was punctuated by red-orange at every...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 22, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #42
Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 17, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #39
It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 14, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #38
Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...
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