Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper. While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!
I don’t know what’s going on now and I just have to be okay with it. She doesn’t look that much different from yesterday, except she looks somehow not like herself.
I’m in a very “THAT MODELLING PASTE WAS A MISTAKE AND NOW I’M STUCK WITH IT” place with all of this, so I slapped some gold on it and then made some marks with the same gold.
I have no idea what to do next so I was grateful when that timer went off and “relieved me of duty”. If I’d stayed with it I might have pulled out the black gesso and made a chalk board instead of a painting.
All hail the lack of choice provided by that ten minute timer!!
I’ve got nothing more to say. It’s rainy and chilly and gloomy here and my eye is itchy and goopy and dancing in and out of useful. I think that calls for a blanket fort with a good tv series and maybe some comfort cheese and crackers.
We’ll see where she takes me tomorrow or if she even survives this next ten minute session.
See you tomorrow,
xo
Effy
P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.
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