Monthly Archives: November 2012

Inspired by Leibowitz

Yesterday I posted an image under this title but almost as soon as I had done this I deleted the image from Flickr – it just didn’t seem right. After sleeping on it and then playing around with the image this morning I produced something much more… Continue reading

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Learning to paint

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Inspired by Leibovitz

These two paintings are based on photos created by Annie Leibovitz. Now Leibovitz has a great eye for an image but it is debatable whether she is one of the greats of photography. As for these two paintings I am trying to explore a much looser sty… Continue reading

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Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham

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Nobody at all

One of the joys of painting on the iPad is that you can just sit down and dawn until some interesting face appears without all the mess. I think I’ll call this man Erasmus.Sent from my iPad Continue reading

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iPad thumb and finger

The things you doodle whilst watching a repeat of House…Sent from my iPad Continue reading

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Flooding at Ratcliffe POwer Station

We really have had an awful lot of rain over the past few days. I captured this image on the way back from Nottingham this afternoon. I suppose some of the water here may just have been the same water I had stood in last Saturday or more likely no… Continue reading

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Still flooding

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The flood waters are going down

Whilst other parts of the country are still suffering from flooding at least around here the water is going down. This photo was captured on Saturday and both rivers are at least 2 metres above their normal level.Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.sim… Continue reading

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A bit black dog – Pope Innocent the Fry

One of those days today – nothing for it but sit back and just relax. What better way than to make a drawing from something off the tele – in this case Stephen Fry posing as pope Innocent the third. I used pens for this so there was no real opport… Continue reading

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