Steyning High Street
Always rather nice but this year, my goodness but it seems to have taken a step up. Here’s a batch of almost random photos from today’s short walk. Cross-post from Conboyhill Fiction. Continue reading Steyning High Street
Author: Suzanne Conboy-Hill
Getting all sheepish at the Basement
Joining the flock at The Basement93 tomorrow, and giving those cats a run for their money, Her Royal Woolliness of the House of the Red Wellies. The print is from an original pencil drawing coloured digitally in Rebelle software made by Escapemotions. Her Woolliness appeared originally in Not Being First Fish and other diary dramas as an adjunct to a Michael Fish anecdote (obviously), and if the wind’s in the right direction, there’ll be a copy nearby for a browse and possibly for sale. Several other illustrations are also available as prints so if you see one in the book … Continue reading Getting all sheepish at the Basement
Local galleries
Feeling somewhat directionless with regard to research, I decided to make a start by thinking local – galleries within a short driving distance where I could go and look at art work without the difficulties inherent in lengthier travel. My … Continue reading Local galleries
Penny Rowe
Beginning to find my way around OCA resources and this came up; a review of Penny’s Drawing1, Assignment 3 preparatory work. As I’m on Assignment 2 of the same course, have yet to receive feedback on Assignment 1, and still feel somewhat directionless, this is both terrifying and invaluable. Can I do this? Can I do my own version of this? Can I find what I thought was ‘my style’ and apply it to this? Do I even have a style or, if I do, do I want to keep it? Big questions and, recognisably, the start of the deconstruction … Continue reading Penny Rowe
The Elton John of trees
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill (@fishbits) Two nights and counting … Happy, merry, whatever-this-means-to-you-time. New Year wishes? A kinder, more welcoming year and, like compound interest, giving the world a nest egg of nice for the future. Continue reading The Elton John of trees
Drawing drawing drawing
I’m familiar with the deconstruction process that happens when I embark on a course designed to develop what I believe to be my existing skills and extend them, but it doesn’t make it any less alarming or uncomfortable! It seems to me that two weeks ago I could draw and now I can’t, so I’m going back to some ways of drawing that worked for me while I figure out how to advance. Small and contained, one item at a time for now. Teapot. As always, I struggle with handles and spouts although this time I reckon that spout isn’t … Continue reading Drawing drawing drawing
Somewhere in Part 2 – still life
7th December. I’m in a weird parallel world set where one strand has things I’ve drawn selling in a gallery, and the other is littered with sketchbook pages full of lines that won’t do as they’re told. So … I … Continue reading Somewhere in Part 2 – still life
Cats playing to the gallery
This is a small corner of Steyning’s new gallery and shop, The Basement (instagram @thebasement93), a lovely new outlet at the bottom of the High Street, near the independent Steyning Book Shop, and the remarkable Sussex Produce Company. Within a matter of a few dozen yards, you can find a unique piece of art, a hand-chosen book, and a strangely shaped vegetable you have to Google when you get home. I left some mounted prints there today of the four cat cards. Also a sheep. All hand drawn then finished in a digital painting programme called Rebelle. Have look – … Continue reading Cats playing to the gallery
The devil in the detail
Today I took a shot at a few different media, or different applications of media, with a black spoon, a fish bottle opener, and a pine cone on a plate with a black rim. As you do. First up, Sharpies. While the lines are clean they also leak through and of course they’re permanent which means that’s it, no erasing, no smudging, no change so it better be right first time. I’m not sure I’m enough of an accurate first service hitter yet so I wasn’t happy with the result. The charcoal made a difference for me; taking the images … Continue reading The devil in the detail
Plagiarism, copyright, and fair use
I’ve been struggling with this for two reasons. As a writer, and prior to that as a clinician and researcher, I was accustomed to a quite clear structure with regard to the use of other people’s words or ideas. Quotes are not often used in scientific papers but in literature, they are and they have to be minimal and clearly referenced. Similarly any supporting or contesting ideas, papers, theoretical references. That feels clear to me. Latterly, in my early (re)-exposure to the art world via local groups, I came across the practice of replication in physical media by copying of … Continue reading Plagiarism, copyright, and fair use
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