Suzanne Russell Art
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Disrupt the Line
I decided to act on an idea that has been brewing, and spent most of my time today prepping canvases with gesso, and then I got some of them to the stage of having a red ground, and I got the first drawing down onto one of them, mostly so I have something more interesting…
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Mute Pink
I pulled this one out again, and started trying to fix what was bothering me about it. The skin tones were too pink, a hazard when you are obsessed with red grounds. I still don’t think I am happy, but I am happier than I was with it, and it was certainly a better experience…
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Crow Redemption
Yesterday two of my paintings were dropped off at a gallery and I finished a large sketchbook which is full with a lot of work I like. I felt good about my practise. Today I pulled out some soft pastels, graphite and charcoal and started working on an intuitive portrait with no reference. I have…
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It’s All Over
I have become mostly comfortable with putting my art up on this blog, which was one of the reasons I started the 100 Day Project in February 2024. I worked through a lot of inner critic stuff just by being disciplined in posting every day. Today two of my paintings were delivered to an art…
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What What What
I spent a lot of today following news, and procrastinating about the really very simple task of creating labels to include in the cellophane envelopes with these two paintings. It’s one of those things I do, where I build up an imaginary mountain around what ends up being a five minute task. I’ll give myself…
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Bouncy Sketchbook
The last three sheets of my A3 sketchbook are very difficult to paint on because I have painted so much in the book that it has bloomed into a luscious but bouncy thing. I’m also feeling like using much more gestural mark-making, and a 2″ wide brush on a bouncy sketchbook is good practise. Til…
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Happy New Year 2026!
Happy New Year! Til the morn, Suzanne 684/700
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Happy Hogmanay!
I started the day with ten pages left to fill in this sketchbook, and ended the day with five pages left to fill, and so I’m closer to the end of the book than I thought I was going to be. Happy Hogmanay! Til the morn, Suzanne 683/700
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Marks and Glazes
I used acrylic inks for glazes and found a possibly vintage box of Neocolors that I think I got in a box of art supplies that I bought mostly for the bargain storage box. They aren’t water-soluble, which is fine, and I don’t think they had ever been used. Two of the faces are making…
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Peachy.Keen
It’s a bit of a rubbish photo because my replacement daylight bulb didn’t arrive and this is Scotland in December so there’s barely any daylight at all. It was painted not quite by candlelight, but at least it was painted. Til the morn, Suzanne 681/700
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Lightbulb Moment
My beautiful, amazing, low energy, high happy, SAD deterring, art daylight bulb in my studio popped. Deid. Dark. Defunct. Replacement tomorrow. In fairness it has been lighting my way since April 2024, and I am old enough to remember when lightbulbs were far less stoic. Naturally today was a very dark day with zero attempts…
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The In-Between Times
We are in the In-between Times where no-one knows what day it is. Someone asked me “what days is bins?” and I said “Saturday. But I don’t know what that means.” Today was bins, and they were emptied, and still all is not well in the world. I wanted to write “all is well in…
Thrummie Bizzum 