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, 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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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