Monthly Archives: June 2013

Loosing my way

Well I’ve been working on this painting this morning and I really feel I’m starting to loose my way with it. The idea was to see whether I could use the iPad and Brushes as a ‘serious’ art media and … Continue reading

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Trying something a little different

Now this is far from finished and I’m not entirely sure I’m going in the right direction but here is a painting I’m trying to make using the iPad. I’m really unsure about this…isn’t this when profound break throughs are … Continue reading

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Scale

Some more images of the Big Hole at Croft. The screen grab from Google Earth shows where the image was taken from. The whole itself is around 1km across and probably at least 200 metres deep. Now I know there … Continue reading

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On top of the world

What a beautiful morning it has been, in fact the week looks set fair so this morning I went out and conquered the local mountain – Croft Hill. This makes it sound like a great achievement and I suppose on … Continue reading

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Coining a new word

Some of you are already aware but my son recently passed his viva to become a Doctor, not a medical Doctor but a real Doctor. I was at an exhibition opening yesterday when I was talking to the artist Robert … Continue reading

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Hugh Laurie for the new Doctor

I know it is a bit of type casting, well his father was a doctor, and anyone outside of Britain well always think of Laurie as a Doctor anyway – House was never shown on terrestrial TV so he is … Continue reading

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Copyright Removal by Facebook

Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed that paintings I’ve posted to Facebook have had the copyright warning removed. I’ve not changed anything in the way that they are posted to to Facebook so one can only assume … Continue reading

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Enough Fu’s for a while

I think I’m all FU’d out. Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Is this really painting

Just were does digital painting fit into the artistic endeavours? I have asked before in this blog whether it is art and of course the answer to that is yes. However, is it painting or something else? I guess to … Continue reading

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