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Gillian Holding
Apr 17, 20131 min read
Showing Process
I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...
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Gillian Holding
Nov 9, 20121 min read
Painting Pleasure
The tendency after any sort of show for me is to sink into a state of overwhelming lassitude. Psychologically, I’m on a roll, but with no...
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Gillian Holding
Oct 24, 20121 min read
Westbourne Grove Drawings continue apace…
I’d hoped to find a way of posting these daily tasters on the fb event page but the system is defeating me. I have to admit some days I...
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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
Jul 11, 20121 min read
Finally done #gristtothemill
All done. Save mounting and finishing. The great thing about seeing any idea through to completion is the way I want to immediately start...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 9, 20121 min read
Revealing layers #gristtothemill
Tore away the masking tape this afternoon. I quite like it. Bit more to do tomorrow then it’s done. It’s at the abstract stage: the...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 7, 20121 min read
Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill
Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 31, 20121 min read
#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...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 24, 20121 min read
#dailyfail #21
It’s funny how ideas evolve. This blog series for example: I had no real Idea of what was going to happen, what I was going to post, but...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 17, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on clutter #followart #iphoneography
I play around a lot with the iPhone camera. I like its severe limitations. #art #iPhonephotos #photography #postaday2011 #digitalart...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 14, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on sleeping whilst awake #followart #draw365
#adailyselfreflection on sleeping whilst awake #art #adailyselfreflection #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalpainting #Selfportrait
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Gillian Holding
Jan 13, 20111 min read
#adailyselfreflection on breaking silence #followart #ipaddrawings #draw365
Just once or twice over the months have I incorporated other images from this series, but today I used three or four apps in composing...
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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 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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