Gillian Holding
Painting in Women’s Hour
oil study (sacrifice of the feminine) (soldier) (oil on paper 110 x 80cm) Stuff’s a bit busy what with convergence of my taxi driver role...
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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
- May 19, 2012
- 1 min
#gristtothemill #76
Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...
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Gillian Holding
- May 18, 2012
- 2 min
#gristtothemill #75
Ok, so I’ve done some further thinking. This blog is ultimately looking at the creative process from my personal perspective. It began...
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Gillian Holding
- May 14, 2012
- 2 min
Rethinking #dailyfail #74
It’s springtime and time to re-think the purpose and function of #dailyfail. It’s all about looking at the process of creativity. It...
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Gillian Holding
- May 8, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #73
Well, it’s been something of a daily failure to achieve anything creative this last week. I’ve not been idle, but if I’m honest, it takes...
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Gillian Holding
- May 4, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #72
It’s been a day of ambiguities consequently reflected in this picture. What’s real, what’s not and does it matter anyway? Held the camera...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 27, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #71
It’s been a busy busy week. After giant leaps with studio work last week, this has been the opposite. I haven’t had a break for a...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 22, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #70
After four months, I’m forced to add a new category. Digital. The whole point initially of #dailyfail was to return to the unambiguous...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 20, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #69
On a roll. Dragged out another painting I have been stewing about for longer than I care to think but there’s something about it which...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 19, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #68
An exciting day in the studio. Radical transformations to not one, not two, but THREE paintings. Went mad with spray paint on two (large...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 18, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #67
Back in the studio. Back to the current work. Or one of them (I always have a number of works on the go; it’s a practice I developed on...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 8, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #66
Away from the mothership and with limited materials and time to hand, and with a lot of background work to do following my joint of the...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 6, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #65
I’m really enjoying messing with the MagicShutter photo app, and using it to draw. It has some amazing possibilities: a degree of control...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 5, 2012
- 1 min
#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, 2012
- 1 min
#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, 2012
- 1 min
#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, 2012
- 1 min
#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, 2012
- 1 min
#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, 2012
- 1 min
#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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