Monthly Archives: April 2011

Iron Age, Art and Photography

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Guthlac

It’s been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway – this is real fr… Continue reading →

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Melton portraiture class

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

Each Monday I drive over to Melton for a portrait course. A few weeks ago I published my first drawing and this is my latest. I think I can detect significant improvement – let’s hope it continues.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Windows App Store?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

Seems that the concept of the micro program (app) store is really catching on. Perhaps someone will launch an app that is native across all platforms and so we can start to forget the nonsense of which OS is better. Perhaps. Windows App Store? I S… Continue reading →

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iPad to rule the roost until 2015

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

This article seems about right to me. I suspect that move away from Apple in the iPad Market will be much less marked as in the phone Market where I believe the glory days of the iPhone are behind it smoothed by the weight of the android onslaught… Continue reading →

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Skull

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Guthlac

A couple of weeks ago I attended a day long workshop about portraiture. The tutor mentioned that one of the best ways to really start to understand the human face was to draw and redraw the human skull. Well I have now got a skull, other than my o… Continue reading →

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Funny Short from Funny or Die website

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Guthlac

Hopefully this will embed correctly… When Harry met Sally 2http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf” />When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren from Billy’>http://www.funnyordie.com/billy_crystal”>Billy Crystal Simon M… Continue reading →

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Good Queen Bess

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

My afternoon session at Stowe was much more productive. In the morning I had spent my time capturing a sculpture on a secluded temple and in the process creating one of the most unsettling image I have ever created. In the afternoon I spent time w… Continue reading →

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Outbreak of irrationalism

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I guess I am progressing as an artist. I was overcome with a highly irrational urge last night to destroy this drawing I had made during the day at Stowe. I just started to hate it with a passion, the face seemed to me to so unappealing, almo… Continue reading →

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Article: What Will the Smartphone Market Look Like in 2015?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Guthlac

Another interesting vision into the future. How accurate will it be? Well it is worth noting, as the article does, that a bright future was pedi ted for Symbian OS only for this to be proven wrong by events – the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia… Continue reading →

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Oops…it’s Clive Anderson

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Guthlac

So there I was just minding my own business happily making a sketch based very loosely on a photograph I found in a book when who should pop out of the drawing but Clive Anderson. I am sure you could read many things into this but honestly it was … Continue reading →

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