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, 20122 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, 20121 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
May 4, 20121 min
#dailyfail #72
It’s been a day of ambiguities consequently reflected in this picture. What’s real, what’s not and does it matter anyway? Held the camera...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 27, 20121 min
#dailyfail #71
It’s been a busy busy week. After giant leaps with studio work last week, this has been the opposite. I haven’t had a break for a...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 22, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 min
#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, 20121 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 8, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 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
Apr 3, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 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 27, 20121 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, 20121 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 23, 20121 min
#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 19, 20121 min
#dailyfail #56
Messing with pen and ink is always fun. Inevitably this means calligraphy is fun, except when it’s not. Calligraphy has particular...
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