Gillian Holding
#dailyfail #56
Messing with pen and ink is always fun. Inevitably this means calligraphy is fun, except when it’s not. Calligraphy has particular...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 16, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #55
Hahahahaha. Hard to take any of this seriously. Liquorice Allsorts spring to mind. And before anyone else says anything, what’s with the...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 15, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #54
Taking risks with things I’ve made is one thing but taking risks with someone else’s is something else. I’m currently running a community...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 14, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #53
I spent three hours making a bad painting worse this afternoon. It would have made a wonderful dailyfail except my phone seemed to be...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 13, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #52
More crayon and combining all that I dislike in a cute pet subject in pastel colors. Things are quite distracted at present. All the more...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 9, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #51
Caran d’ache crayons lurking in the bottom of my bag and a new sketchbook/journal with really nice paper that looks as though it will...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 8, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #50
An almond tree just down the road which over the years I have drawn, photographed and painted. There’s something about the colours of the...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 7, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #49
I began with a collection of photos I had been taking of pleasing colour combinations. I was planning to make colour notes from the...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 6, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #48
What I’m most enjoying about the whole #dailyfail exercise is the complete freedom from having to justify time, concept, context, skill,...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 4, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #47
More breaking of self imposed “rules” on a series of daily challenges resolutely NOT using digital technology but then again the whole...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 29, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #46
I’ve been varnishing furniture in an obsessive-compulsive fashion today, having just refurbished a bedroom with predominantly dark oak...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 27, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #45
Still on the greyness of the A58 into town. I am waiting for a decent spell in the studio to do something with these images racing...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 25, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #44
Rules are there to be broken. The #dailyfail is about avoiding the safety net of digital painting on mobile devices, but sometimes needs...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #43
Sitting in a cafe, looking out on a grey rainy day, I noticed with interest the dull greyness was punctuated by red-orange at every...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 22, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #42
Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 20, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #41
Back to paint. Still messing with stuff that’s been up on the walls for months. I’m away for a few days now, but I always seem to get an...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 17, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #40
Just how hard can it be to pull one decent print from a lino cut I’m happy with? Hours, is the answer. Hours, when the printer to print...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 16, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #39
It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 14, 2012
- 1 min
#dailyfail #38
Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 13, 2012
- 1 min
#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...
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