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Gillian Holding
Apr 5, 20121 min read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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 read
#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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Gillian Holding
Mar 16, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #55
Hahahahaha. Hard to take any of this seriously. Liquorice Allsorts spring to mind. And before anyone else says anything, what’s with the...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 15, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #54
Taking risks with things I’ve made is one thing but taking risks with someone else’s is something else. I’m currently running a community...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 14, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #53
I spent three hours making a bad painting worse this afternoon. It would have made a wonderful dailyfail except my phone seemed to be...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 13, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #52
More crayon and combining all that I dislike in a cute pet subject in pastel colors. Things are quite distracted at present. All the more...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 9, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #51
Caran d’ache crayons lurking in the bottom of my bag and a new sketchbook/journal with really nice paper that looks as though it will...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 8, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #50
An almond tree just down the road which over the years I have drawn, photographed and painted. There’s something about the colours of the...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 7, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #49
I began with a collection of photos I had been taking of pleasing colour combinations. I was planning to make colour notes from the...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 6, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #48
What I’m most enjoying about the whole #dailyfail exercise is the complete freedom from having to justify time, concept, context, skill,...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 4, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #47
More breaking of self imposed “rules” on a series of daily challenges resolutely NOT using digital technology but then again the whole...
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Gillian Holding
Feb 29, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #46
I’ve been varnishing furniture in an obsessive-compulsive fashion today, having just refurbished a bedroom with predominantly dark oak...
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Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #43
Sitting in a cafe, looking out on a grey rainy day, I noticed with interest the dull greyness was punctuated by red-orange at every...
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