Monthly Archives: November 2013

A confluence of issues

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Guthlac

One of the strange things about life is that from time to time things come together to produce a strange and wonderful experience. This happened to me yesterday when I visited the Middlesborough Institute for Modern Art (MIMA). This is … Continue reading →

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When you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy….

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Guthlac

I seem to be drifting to a very simplified approach to the the Boxing idea.  I suppose in truth I hadn’t  really got any plans other than try and move away from portraiture …and in this I think I’m succeeding … Continue reading →

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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Guthlac

   

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Death on the dance floor

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Guthlac

A sketch/playing with ideas based on a George Bellows print.  

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…nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring…

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Guthlac

“…nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring…” Sugar Ray Leonard    

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Continuing the Boxer Vibe

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Guthlac

At the moment I seem to be moving away from trying to make likenesses to some far more powerful imagery.   I have always been influenced by the boxing photography of the early part of the 20th century – I … Continue reading →

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I am just a poor boy

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Guthlac

I’ve got this Boxing vibe going on at the moment.  I have no idea where I got it from as I find the sport pointless.  However, there is nobility in the defeated man, or woman, still try to stand when … Continue reading →

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In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by her trade…

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Guthlac

Those words from the Simon and Garfunkel song kept running through my head as I made this drawing…la la la la   or should that be And here’s to you Mrs Robinson…    

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Disney appears to be seeping into my sketches…didn’t know what to do

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Guthlac

Everybody comes to Hollywood….so the song goes and it seems that this is what has happened to my drawing!   This was supposed to be a simple pen drawing of Juliet Stevenson and suddenly it morphed into a Disney little … Continue reading →

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Einstein and low productivity – are doodles all I can do right now?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Guthlac

We all go through them time when our creative and productive juices just seem to dry up.   I guess how we deal with these droughts is as much a lesson than those periods when things just seem so easy. … Continue reading →

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