#Portraiture

Gillian Holding

May 20, 2015
1 min

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 in photographing tourists blocking the scenery than I was in capturing the iconic views. #CanadianRockies #Painting #Portraiture

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Gillian Holding

Jun 21, 2013
1 min

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 different techniques in preparation for a series of figurative works examining ambiguity in daily life, and what better subject than the one which greets me unsmiling most days? #Oilpainting #Portraiture #selfportraiture

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Gillian Holding

May 16, 2013
1 min

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 fascinatingly textured East Coast placemat 4. An empty quiet carriage 5. A doodle to try out the crayons on the interestingly textured placemat, gradually taking on the form of a Giotto inspired face: those odd grey-green shadows emerging from the under painting. Not quite the same effect with wax crayons. But technical and aesthetic defic

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Gillian Holding

Apr 30, 2013
1 min

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, 2013
1 min

Harsh scrutiny

#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture

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Gillian Holding

Apr 23, 2013
1 min

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, grabbed two brushes, four colours and some turps. Did an agonizingly unflattering but rewarding portrait of self. Is this a return to #adailyselfreflection? #Painting #Portraiture

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Gillian Holding

Dec 28, 2012
1 min

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 favourites, has been magically transformed into an automatically exceptionally touch sensitive app. O seasonal joy. I drew the first thing to hand; the photo of author Michael Connolly on the back jacket of the novel I’m reading!! #digitaldrawing #drawing #Portraiture

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Gillian Holding

Oct 28, 2012
1 min

Assembling Snippets

#contemporaryart #westbournegrove #Portraiture #digitaldrawing #Identity #urbandrawing #digitalart

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Gillian Holding

Oct 26, 2012
1 min

More Figures

#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing

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Gillian Holding

Oct 23, 2012
1 min

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 thick and fast now. Every one develops in its own manner. it’s strange how the hand is the same but the technique makes so much difference to the outcome. Even working instinctively and intuitively, sometimes from one hour to the next, it’s amazing how differently the work emerges. If you’ve missed the details of the November event in London, l

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#adailyselfreflection on The Great Escape #digitaldrawings #draw365

Gillian Holding

Apr 20, 2011
1 min

#adailyselfreflection on The Great Escape #digitaldrawings #draw365

The Great Escape #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #selfportraiture #Portraiture #digitalart

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#adailyselfreflection on barriers #draw365 #iPaddrawings

Gillian Holding

Feb 10, 2011
1 min

#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 reflection of the other even if this is not apparent on the surface. #adailyselfreflection #Portraiture #postaday2011 #digitalart #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on progress or lack thereof #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings

Gillian Holding

Jan 9, 2011
1 min

#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 #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on early rising #draw365 #followart #ipadpaintings

Gillian Holding

Jan 8, 2011
1 min

#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 #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on how easy it is to overcomplicate #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings

Gillian Holding

Jan 7, 2011
1 min

#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 tried Clever Things with layer blending and spent as long again recovering the image. #art #adailyselfreflection #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on freedom and choice #draw365 #followart

Gillian Holding

Jan 6, 2011
1 min

#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 reality as any other ‘vision’. #art #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on the importance of paint #draw365

Gillian Holding

Jan 5, 2011
1 min

#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 #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

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#adailyselfreflection on the big picture #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings

Gillian Holding

Jan 3, 2011
1 min

#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, regain a sense of perspective. I found myself posing in an uncustomary flamboyant manner, and drawing a cloud shape of my occupied space. At one point I felt compelled to go in and detail the face but then backed off and sprayed virtual aerosol spray paint over the features to subdue it within the overall image again. Challenge for today. Re

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#adailyselfreflection: Welcome to the Dedicated Blog

Gillian Holding

Jan 2, 2011
2 min

#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 cyberspace for showing digitally generated work, and I loved the idea that artwork with no tangible existence could be viewed in the exact form in which it had been created. I began with Twitter, and then understood that Twitter was so much more. I found myself on a social media workshop series which I have blogged about in my Life and Art blo

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