A ’Small Study a Day’ painting challenge!
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A ’Small Study a Day’ painting challenge!

I’ve set myself the challenge of doing 1 small study per day for as long as I can keep it going (might not last long!).

Purely painting practice - no pressure to produce any finished work, just playing and experimenting.

Here I show the work I did for days 1 - 3.

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Sketching for a painting
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Sketching for a painting

The use of sketching to explore shapes, colours, composition, techniques and so forth. Using sketching to experiment more freely without the pressure of trying to ‘complete’ a painting.

Some examples of working towards a painting of a Swiss cheese plant by using sketching to develop ideas.

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Scottish Croft
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Scottish Croft

New painting. This gives a little bit of detail behind my latest painting of a Scottish croft on Eilean Shona, a small island in the inner Hebrides.

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