Gillian Holding
Finally done #gristtothemill
All done. Save mounting and finishing. The great thing about seeing any idea through to completion is the way I want to immediately start...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 9, 2012
- 1 min
Revealing layers #gristtothemill
Tore away the masking tape this afternoon. I quite like it. Bit more to do tomorrow then it’s done. It’s at the abstract stage: the...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 8, 2012
- 1 min
Figurative Abstracted #gristtothemill
Nerve-racking stuff painting through the last few days. Some bits working well. Some not so well. It’s at times like this I feel like...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 7, 2012
- 1 min
Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill
Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...
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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 2, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Jan 16, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #14
I’m becoming a bit more relaxed each day posting the normally hidden pages of my sketchbook and related messings. Working in a open plan...
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 15, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #13
A reflective weekend. In pursuit of Slowness. 24 hours away from all online activity, allowing focussed concentrated reading and note...
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 12, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #11
The best type of glorious failure today. I have been playing around with surfaces for making shadow puppets, and had read that Ivory...
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 4, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #3
I am fearful of cliche in art even though it amuses me in writing. So today peering at a coral reef through the windows of an underwater...
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