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  • The Squid Report

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    Liz

    It has been a week of calamari here in my studio. All other projects have been suspended by my current obsession with this giant squid painting.

  • An arty week with a giant squid

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    Liz

    Met an artist, listened to an illustrator, ate dinner with an arty friend, received an arty book and painted a giant squid. Yeah, a very arty week.

  • My studio

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    Liz

    To celebrate the fact that my studio has just had a darn good tidy up (except my art desk, that is still pending), here are a few piccies to prove that it was once tidy before I trash it again 😀

  • A fling with iridescent gel

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    Liz

    I am having a love affair with iridescent gel. I can’t seem to get away from it, not that I want to. I can’t help but throw some into almost all my paintings at the moment. I just love the lustre.

  • Inspiration through Exploration – confined colour palettes

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    Liz

    In this series I am focussing on finding inspiration through exploration of media and the world around us. Most of the time inspiration doesn’t hit us out of the blue, we have to go looking for it.

  • Blogtoberfest 2012

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    Liz

    I thought it appropriate that I stumbled across this challenge today. I have encountered it before, but completely forgot about it until that chance encounter today. It must be fate. So here be my statement of intention – despite the fact that I find stating my intentions to be kinda scary since if I don’t…

  • Acrylic splat becomes a toucan

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    Liz

    The biggest thing for me that I’m learning at the moment is to trust my skill. I have to believe that no matter what I do it will work out somehow. It may look like crud at some points, but if I keep going, I can make it work. I’m an artist, I can do…

  • Spring has sprung paint

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    Liz

    It is so wonderful to have some sunny weather to paint in. Last weekend I grabbed my acrylics and set up on the back porch and threw together to beginnings of a randomish painting (mainly because the canvas I’m using has a thread pull in it and I had to wait for the other two…

  • Things that make me nostalgic

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    Liz

    I receive Tracey Fletcher King’s blog posts straight into my email inbox (they are so entertaining and arty, they are totally worth it :D) when I came across her entry for List it Tuesday. Ooh, a challenge I haven’t encountered before. So I wandered over to Artsyville and, cool, what a great idea. So instead…

  • Paper and Jewels mosaic completed!

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    Liz

    It is final. It is complete (well, except for its second coat of varnish which I will do today). My first paper and jewels mosaic is done!