Gillian Holding
Left Bank Residency: day 10
No real surprise there. Moving up in scale never allows for replication of the studies, and effectively it’s all still a work in...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 13, 2016
- 1 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 9
The result was I finally put down the brush at 11pm. Since this is not the summer soltice, it meant I was painting in the dark. Add the...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 12, 2016
- 1 min
Left Bank Residency: day 8
, first layers If I begin to think about the amount of surface to be painted between now and close of play Wednesday, it seems...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 11, 2016
- 2 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 7
Tool Workshop (Michael) casting location (Rob) Sound Studio (Bob) painting space (gillian) The theme of the ongoing project at Left Bank...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 10, 2016
- 1 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 6
more experiments with material Day six is an achievement not least because for most of it I was at a charity fund-raising art fair and...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 9, 2016
- 1 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 5
Wah. But still, so much exciting stuff is happening in the midst of the angst that I would far sooner be facing the tough bits than not....
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 8, 2016
- 2 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 4
drawing compositions Day four began with bleary eyes, a list of objectives for the day, and yet another interminable list of things to be...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 7, 2016
- 2 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 3
Experiments with paint Day three and Left Bank if anything seems even colder than days one and two. Luckily the warmth of the resident...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 6, 2016
- 1 min
Left Bank Residency: day 2
Light patterns of evening Second day, and the temporary studio is in place. A series of foraging sorties to the conveniently located...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 5, 2016
- 2 min
Left Bank Residency: Day 1
hidden passages Ten days to make art in response to one of the most extraordinary spaces in Leeds. Ten days to inhabit a freezing Gothic...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 16, 2015
- 1 min
Landscape formulae
#dailyfail (landscapes) Those formulaic “How To” instruction books for acrylic/watercolour/oil landscape/figure/portraiture/still life...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 15, 2015
- 1 min
Emerald landscapes
Implausably green Some years back I acquired one of those huge boxes of landscape pastels. They arrived and I took one look and thought...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 29, 2015
- 1 min
Surface Tension
Unprimed surfaces are obviously very absorbent and very slow and normally the exact type of surface I hate most. But in all these recent...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 25, 2015
- 1 min
Two colours and old tissue
prayer study Having created an abominable surface the other day of sticky muddy glaze, I ended up sticking old pieces of tissue over to...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 24, 2015
- 1 min
Felt pens
screen shot (felt pen) Some book I was reading the other day called for a commitment by the reader-artist to draw from life a minimum of...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 18, 2015
- 1 min
Another Tourist View
tourist View (Canadian Rockies) Last year I had something of an eipiphany when I realised I was more interested in the tourists than the...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 16, 2015
- 1 min
Shellac experiments
study on shellac (drama extract) Been meaning for ages to try out painting with oil on paper sized with shellac instead of oil primer....
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 10, 2015
- 1 min
Underpainting bondage
girl with doll (II) (underpainting) The major preoccupation of the last couple of months has been to check the authenticity and integrity...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 8, 2015
- 1 min
Yet more perils: Plein Air
Belvedere and High Rises across the Buttes Chaumont Mad impulse to paint outdoors on this fine sunny day. Mad because it meant walking...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 7, 2015
- 1 min
The perils of ink
bikes, rue Bichat Enough of oil. Back to inky drawings and water pen. Still no relief from unwanted Rorschach tattoos though. The pen lid...
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