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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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#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


#dailyfail #26
I’ve realized I just cannot resist temptation to create a decent image of the non-sketchbook explorations. This cam experimenter called...
Gillian Holding
Jan 30, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #25
Absurd to make a to do list for a weekend when I’m away and then think I can make something happen. Particularly when the to do list...
Gillian Holding
Jan 29, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #24
Confronting the dreaded hands. Pages of drawing required so I can move to the watercolor drawing with fluid, instinctive lines and...
Gillian Holding
Jan 27, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #22
My head is dangerously full of 3D movements options; gears, cams, sprockets and belts. I am unable to think about anything else which is...
Gillian Holding
Jan 25, 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...
Gillian Holding
Jan 24, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #20
Running apace now on multiple fronts. Still messing for the shadow puppets, starting to assemble the actual puppet and busy drawing specs...
Gillian Holding
Jan 23, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #19
Exploration is aways a challenge on busy days, but I have a serious deadline to meet at the end of the next week which isn’t disappearing...
Gillian Holding
Jan 22, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #18
The entire day was almost a #dailyfail after falling back to sleep when I should have been up and about. Creativity was hampered by...
Gillian Holding
Jan 20, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #17
Freezing cold, numb fingers, and another pile of mono prints but at least I have decided on a direction to go. The sketchbook has been...
Gillian Holding
Jan 19, 20121 min read
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