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#dailyfail #42
Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...
Gillian Holding
Feb 22, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #41
Back to paint. Still messing with stuff that’s been up on the walls for months. I’m away for a few days now, but I always seem to get an...
Gillian Holding
Feb 20, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #40
Just how hard can it be to pull one decent print from a lino cut I’m happy with? Hours, is the answer. Hours, when the printer to print...
Gillian Holding
Feb 17, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #39
It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...
Gillian Holding
Feb 17, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #38
Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...
Gillian Holding
Feb 14, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #37
Back on track. Focussed, experimenting, messing with different papers and colours to decide how finally I’m going to do this print which...
Gillian Holding
Feb 13, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #36
Sometimes all you can do is doodle. Sitting in on a piano lesson, I’m supposed to be making notes. I make the notes in my sketch book...
Gillian Holding
Feb 12, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #35
Sometimes the fun comes from saying to yourself “Right, as fast as you can, line only, with this biro which is the only tool to hand,...
Gillian Holding
Feb 10, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #34
Transport, wifi and charging issues conspired to prevent this going out earlier, but that’s all part of daily fail anyway. I was limited...
Gillian Holding
Feb 10, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #33
Back on track now fighting linoleum with blunt tools. Not good. Luckily I’m traveling down to London tomorrow and will hopefully be able...
Gillian Holding
Feb 8, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #32
A minimalist daily fail today. Minimal work and minimal in appearance for the moment. I was distracted from the task I was supposed to...
Gillian Holding
Feb 7, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #31
Excellent. A proper, irritating daily fail today. Found it very hard to move on the new project for this week which is a comparatively...
Gillian Holding
Feb 6, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #30
Well, I got to where I needed to be today. I’ve learned a huge amount from the whole project; it’s been great fun; it’s taken me to...
Gillian Holding
Feb 3, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #29
A day of complete and utter frustration and pointless activity which all had to be abandoned at 6.30pm. Lessons learned? There is NO...
Gillian Holding
Feb 2, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #28
Typically on a week where I have to seriously work to a stream of specific results, I have had days interrupted by pick ups and music...
Gillian Holding
Feb 1, 20121 min read
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#dailyfail #27
Ah, the joy of an unexpectedly glorious “failure”. I was trialling the opalescent screen and shadow puppets today. It’s fair to say I had...
Gillian Holding
Jan 31, 20121 min read
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