Gillian Holding
Tourist View (Canadian Rockies)
Tourist View (Canadian Rockies) oil on paper 100 x 150cm On holiday last year, it took me a week or so to realise I was more interested...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 21, 20131 min read
Oil studies
Hot sunny day, so nothing better than to creep inside and miss the sun in pursuit of painting. One of those phases where I revisit...
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Gillian Holding
May 16, 20131 min read
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, 20131 min read
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 25, 20131 min read
Harsh scrutiny
#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture
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Gillian Holding
Apr 23, 20131 min read
Dash of Paint
On the point of scuttling out back to car and decided I had time for a quick oil painting. Placed materials and gilt wax on floor,...
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Gillian Holding
Dec 28, 20121 min read
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 28, 20121 min read
Assembling Snippets
#contemporaryart #westbournegrove #Portraiture #digitaldrawing #Identity #urbandrawing #digitalart
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Gillian Holding
Oct 26, 20121 min read
More Figures
#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing
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Gillian Holding
Oct 23, 20121 min read
Latest Projects
Westbourne Grove (a portrait of everyday) (detail of collage element) It’s been a while… but things get busy… the drawings are coming...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 20, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on The Great Escape #digitaldrawings #draw365
The Great Escape #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #selfportraiture #Portraiture #digitalart
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Gillian Holding
Feb 10, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on barriers #draw365 #iPaddrawings
There is increasing convergence between ideas formulated through this series and those of my blog Life and Art. Increasingly the one is a...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 9, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on progress or lack thereof #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
I thought this would be more of a figure drawing and more ‘finished’ but I stopped because I liked the left eye. #art...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 8, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on early rising #draw365 #followart #ipadpaintings
Half asleep in the dark is never going to be a great look but I’m well beyond great looks these days. #adailyselfreflection...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 7, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on how easy it is to overcomplicate #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
Running late every which way this morning so I was set for a chaotic speedy image and the chaos and speed was easy enough but then I...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 6, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on freedom and choice #draw365 #followart
Sometimes I have no desire to look into the mirror at all, or gaze at a webcam image, and seeing myself in the mind’s eye is as close to...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 5, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on the importance of paint #draw365
It’s all about not painting enough with real paint but in the fantasyland of iPad apps it’s not a problem. #art #adailyselfreflection...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 3, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on the big picture #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
Today I realised I spent yesterday drowning in detail. All I wanted to do today was to be able to take a step back, see the big picture,...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 2, 20112 min read
#adailyselfreflection: Welcome to the Dedicated Blog
forcing myself to use a constant line to depict form and volume #adailyselfreflection began when I realised there was a great forum in...
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