Monthly Archives: October 2013

Doodling

I am sure I’ve written about this before but I am always amazed where creativity comes from. This sense of wanting to make something that wasn’t there before is, perhaps, one of the defining elements of what makes us humans. … Continue reading

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The Red Lady of Paviland

  I think I’ve taken this as far as I can

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Tyrion – a solution found

If all else fails go back to what you feel most comfortable with…that seems to have been the way I over came my my problems with the Tyrion piece.  So far so good.  

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Caricature or what happens when you don’t know where to go next

    Some times I find I don’t know which way to turn – this morning is one of those times.  I have made an outline of the Game of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister – a subject I seem interested … Continue reading

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The first ever piece

This is a work in progress but here is the first artwork produced in my new studio space.   The one great thing about this is that I can just leave it out and then come back to it after … Continue reading

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New studio space

Well here goes … I’m starting to use my new studio space …. Yippee Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Strange Light

We’ve just had a rain storm blow through and with it came a strange orange glow in the sky.  Nature always comes up with the best ideas.

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Playing about with kids crayons

Some time ago I bought a pack of kids crayons and have been carrying them around with me in my arts bag for a while.  This afternoon I thought I’d just have a go with them and the results were … Continue reading

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Sketching

A few days ago I decided to put a sketch pad next to my computer.  In the past I had passed the time whilst waiting something to happen whilst working on the computer by doodling on any old scrap of … Continue reading

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Making my iMac sweat

Two more panoramas from this morning’s shoot – these really made my iMac sweet and start to behave like it is a bit under powered – both are over 300 MB in size in their original format – clearly they … Continue reading

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