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Hywel Livingstone's avatar

I’m not sure if this comparison works, but as a sculptor, when I’m stuck in the studio I seem to build boxes or cubes - somehow this simple shape and the action of making it always leads yo something... nothing worse than a blank canvas!

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Becky Palmer's avatar

Such a good exercise! This isn’t something I’ve thought to do since school (where I remember making painstaking copies of Joan Eardley paintings in oil pastels, not at all the same as these amazing pastiches) but I love what you said about learning colour from it. Got to try again. Also digital colouring which I really have a hard time with for some reason.

My go-to for stuck moments used to be collage but now more often drawing games, especially if I can rope someone else in to play. Using other people’s pictures as starting points for some kind of story seems to work well.

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