Gillian Holding
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, 2012
- 1 min
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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Gillian Holding
- Jun 29, 2012
- 1 min
Identity study #gristtothemill
Playing around with a number of ideas at the moment on nationality, identity, competition, success… It was good to mess with oil paint....
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Gillian Holding
- May 29, 2012
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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....
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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 20, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #69
On a roll. Dragged out another painting I have been stewing about for longer than I care to think but there’s something about it which...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 19, 2012
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#dailyfail #68
An exciting day in the studio. Radical transformations to not one, not two, but THREE paintings. Went mad with spray paint on two (large...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 18, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #67
Back in the studio. Back to the current work. Or one of them (I always have a number of works on the go; it’s a practice I developed on...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 3, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #63
Some days it’s impossible to resist the lure of digital play. Particularly when you are travelling up and down the country in a train...
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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 29, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #61
Discovered a new painting tool today in the course of laying down a ground for a new painting. A Crown Matchpot tube applicator on...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 28, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #60
Slightly larger than thumbnail sketches, I’ve resurrected the deserted pubs theme. Playing around with the colored backgrounds I prepared...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 23, 2012
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#dailyfail #57
It’s always worth holding on to old work you sort of feel something for even though it didn’t quite work at the time. After a couple of...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 16, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #55
Hahahahaha. Hard to take any of this seriously. Liquorice Allsorts spring to mind. And before anyone else says anything, what’s with the...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 14, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #53
I spent three hours making a bad painting worse this afternoon. It would have made a wonderful dailyfail except my phone seemed to be...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 7, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #49
I began with a collection of photos I had been taking of pleasing colour combinations. I was planning to make colour notes from the...
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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
- Feb 20, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #41
Back to paint. Still messing with stuff that’s been up on the walls for months. I’m away for a few days now, but I always seem to get an...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 7, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #32
A minimalist daily fail today. Minimal work and minimal in appearance for the moment. I was distracted from the task I was supposed to...
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 24, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #21
It’s funny how ideas evolve. This blog series for example: I had no real Idea of what was going to happen, what I was going to post, but...
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