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I spend most Sundays in my studio lounge, catching up on my TV viewing online, finishing up paintings or chilling out with my art journal. Hence a new feature – Studio Sunday – where I’ll drop by to show you what’s on the easel and the screen.
Today I’m catching up on Doctor Who, Morse and Sherlock Holmes while finishing up this 22″ square beast for the gallery show.
You might remember this art journal page from last week, inspired by Adriana Almanza.
I loved her so much I recreated her in my own style as a proper mixed media painting with a new theme.
'And the Night Heralds the Dawn' 10x12" mixed media © 2010 Klair Scattergood
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If you follow me on Twitter you’ll have seen me working on some monochrome drawings earlier in the week. I’ve just finished them this morning in time for the start of Gemini.
'Gemini Magic' 8x12
The faces are done in graphite and Prismacolor pencils, with a little Cosmic Shimmer and black gel pen in the eyes. The hair is acrylic, the background is Portfolio watersoluble oil pastels smooshed (technical term) with white acrylic. Then I covered the oil pastel with clear gesso and did the writing in Uniball POSCA poster paint markers.
I’m really getting into these monochromatic faces and I’ve got a painting in progress that mayfeature these colours too.
Speaking of Gemini twins…
Guess who’s TWELVE years old today?!
Quinn (aka 'The Bear') bottom, and his twin sister Crowe (aka 'Madam'), top
They often sleep like this. They were born wrapped around each other, the biggest (‘Bear’ is now 36″ from nose to tail tip) and the runt (she weighs less than my netbook) of the litter.They still find the greatest comfort in each other. He will happily fall asleep while she prods him, chatters at him, licks him clean, kneads at him with her paws and all other manner of things. They never fight. Quinn is a big scaredy cat and apart from a couple of people he doesn’t like people in the house. He hides upstairs with wide eyes until they go away. Crowe is very protective of him and generally sits on the stairs between him and whatever’s scared him, be it human or just a loud noise. Crowe also protects me from big bad spiders and looks very proud of herself when she catches one. Now if she’d just stop bringing them back to show me…
When I watch them running around the house like loons or chasing their own tails, its hard to believe they’re technically classed as ‘elderly’ by the vet. Even he’s surprised that they’ve never been sick, not once, although Quinn was born with a heart murmur.
They are my studio cats. Always there, always watching, sometimes getting in and licking the brushes for me, other times pawing at the brush water or drinking my tea – Crowe likes to help herself to a bit of my Earl Grey.
There’s nothing like sitting painting and listening to a chorus of cat purrs.
As we all know, some frogs can turn into princes if you give them a kiss. But some frogs are purple. They’re not princes, but they are magical.
If you are nice to them, they might even grant you three wishes.
'Some Frogs Are Purple' 12x10" mixed media © 2010 Klair Scattergood
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You can see a ‘step-by-step’ creation of this painting in this previous post.
Inspired by the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’, here’s Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
'Mr Darcy, I Presume?' 12x10" mixed media on canvas board © 2010 Klair Scattergood
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You can now purchase my bookbinding and art journal workshops through my ArtFire studio too!
