Day 14, texture.

I chose a photo of worm-casts on a sea shell that I took in the olden days when we were allowed to go to the beach. It was lovely to just sit and copy the shapes then let them continue wherever I wanted. Thankyou very much Marie for the challenges, they’ve been great fun. I have learnt some useful things about my work and have made lots of pictures in this sketchbook. I have two main sketchbooks that I work from, one for observational drawing only and one for things that aren’t observational. I found recently that I was only working in the observational one as it was easier to record what I saw in front of me than to create new images. I was getting rather scared of this second sketchbook, but now I have put 14 more pictures in it and it doesn’t seem nearly so daunting.

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Day 13, take two.

The threads sort of chose themselves as they were already stitched across the left hand page, following on from my earlier stitched picture. So I added some more thread and the tadpoles from the metamorphosis two picture. Again, I really liked the simple effectiveness of this prompt for finding a new idea.

Day 12, Structure.

this was a rather late-at-night piece for me as yesterday was a bit hectic. And I completely forgot to post it up here!

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Day 11, transform me.

This exercise seemed quite tricky because I have been trying to fill all the page for these exercises, and there wasn’t much space to add more. I didn’t really like my first picture for ‘Journey’ , so I decided to take bits away instead of adding them and I think the end result is more interesting than it was before. I also very much like the idea of changing work I’m not happy with just to see where it takes me.

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Day 10, thread.

This prompt was a real gift for me as I could use my sewing things. It’s been a tough day today and I’ve barely managed to do any work at all so granting myself 20 quiet minutes to make this picture felt like a real rest. I think it’s quite a restful picture for me too.

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Day 9, flatten it out.

This is another very different approach for me, but again I found it really fun. When we lived in Scotland I loved hunting for starfish on the beach.

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Day 8, the colours of my day.

I really enjoyed this one, it felt quick and calm and simple. I don’t do much abstract drawing, perhaps that should be an aim for another day, but this is getting close for me. I painted things that make up my day in one long stream, then added collage from the scraps basket I am using for my current picture book project. Work and life all intermingled.

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Day 7, a crowd of creatures.

Just that, to draw a crowd of creatures. I drew this picture whilst cajoling my son to complete his Spanish homework, and I suspect my focus was not on the page in front of me. Distraction and interruption are my creativity enemies.

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Day 6, metamorphosis part two.

I don’t often fill a whole page unless I really have to so this was a really good excessive for me. And I love frogs.

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Day 5, metamorphosis part one.
I couldn’t quite remember the shape of pea flowers and was determined not to interrupt my drawing by picking up my phone to find out. So I just guessed from memories of last year’s peas.

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Day 4, shake it up.

As with the slow challenge I found I had to keep reminding myself to work quickly and not get lost in the moment. I didn’t know what I would draw when I started, I just wanted to fill the whole page. The creatures were a hasty addition to fill some of the white gaps between the trees.

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Day 3, going slowly. This one was really enjoyable for me, but also quite hard as I had to keep reminding myself to slow down. This is a pear tree in our garden with one all its older branches on the left and one young branch on the right. I really liked paying attention to the feel of the brush on the page and noticing the way the ink and crayon drew differently on the two different pages. I make many of my own sketchbooks with mixtures of different papers I have lying about, and I enjoy the different textures and weights of the pages.

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Day 2, cloudwatching. I began with a black ink wiggly shape you can just about see in the middle, and out came this rather extravagant dancer.

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Day 1, Journey. We live by the sea, love birds and watch their migrations, and these were the colours out and about on my desk today. Create a Daily Art Practice: A 28-Day Challenge - image 13 - student project

Hannah Sanguinetti

Illustrator and dollmaker

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