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Life Class
I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...
Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20131 min read


Charger
#ArtStudio #digitaldrawings #drawing
Gillian Holding
Jan 26, 20131 min read


Canal St Martin in Snow
#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing
Gillian Holding
Jan 19, 20131 min read


App Update: Art Studio
Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my...
Gillian Holding
Dec 28, 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...
Gillian Holding
Nov 9, 20121 min read


Gillian Holding
Oct 29, 20120 min read


Assembling Snippets
#contemporaryart #westbournegrove #Portraiture #digitaldrawing #Identity #urbandrawing #digitalart
Gillian Holding
Oct 28, 20121 min read


More Figures
#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing
Gillian Holding
Oct 26, 20121 min read


More snippets of Westbourne Grove
I’ve discovered that trying to draw on a laptop on a rattling train makes me train sick. Good job there are no more train journeys over...
Gillian Holding
Oct 25, 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...
Gillian Holding
Oct 24, 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...
Gillian Holding
Oct 23, 20121 min read


Enamel Enamoured #gristtothemill
After a busy couple of weeks spent staring at computer screens producing work for various festivals here, there and just about...
Gillian Holding
Jul 23, 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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 11, 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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 9, 20121 min read


Figurative Abstracted #gristtothemill
Nerve-racking stuff painting through the last few days. Some bits working well. Some not so well. It’s at times like this I feel like...
Gillian Holding
Jul 8, 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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 7, 20121 min read


Underpainting #gristtothemill
Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...
Gillian Holding
Jul 6, 20121 min read


In search of Hands
The hands have it today. A week of making up poses and narratives has sent me scurrying in search of those masters of narrative posing to...
Gillian Holding
Jul 4, 20121 min read


And yet more (on identity) #gristtothemill
No time in the studio now until Thursday. It’s one of those weeks when I really wish the rest of the world didn’t exist. I don’t mean...
Gillian Holding
Jul 2, 20121 min read


More on identity #gristtothemill
Painting figures in ridiculous poses from imagination is sometimes very very hard and very very frustrating. I need a ten year...
Gillian Holding
Jul 1, 20121 min read
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