Monthly Archives: December 2014

Project LV One – Day 250 – And it’s a hard rain a goin’ to fall

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Guthlac

Well it looks like we’ve managed not to blow the world up for another year which in itself is a real achievement.   However, we do seem set on buggering up the climate so perhaps things are not so rosy. … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 249 – Dystopia

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Guthlac

  ….an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one…. Need I say anymore?

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Project LV One – Day 248 – Printing Squares

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Guthlac

Tis the season for coming down with ailments…as the song may have gone.  All around me my friends have got a variation of the lurgy  and I appear to have pulled a muscle in my leg.  Anyway this didn’t stop … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 247 – Lightroom Mobile

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Guthlac

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Oh this brings back memories, plotting out workflow models and then using them to optimise the process.  Hours and hours of … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 246 – Disco

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Guthlac

This is a digital portrait I am working on at the moment – in real world terms this is an oil sketch – not sure whether this is a creative col de sac – time will tell.  

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Project LV One – Day 245 – Looking Back and Forward

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Guthlac

I think it is far to say that my portrait painting has hit a bit of a crises – somewhere along the way I seem to have lost my sense of adventure and reversed into something I am not and … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 244 – Mary and Joseph

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Guthlac

So it is Christmas and I had prepared a great piece on another grey day in paradise – unfortunately as I write this there are blue sky outside so that sort of destroys the starting point.  However, the main thrust … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 243 – My and Rene

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Guthlac

Anyone examining my Pinterest boards will notice that over the past few weeks I have been taken by the work of René Gruau.  I find his simple use of line and colour very appealing. If you had read yesterday’s blog you … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 242 – Jungle Book

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Guthlac

There is something satisfying about copying genius.  Many art historians would dismiss the work of Disney animators as merely illustrators but this would be so wrong.  If you examine the art work closely it has the simplicity of design, these … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 241 – Painting

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the joys of being a relative neophyte, if you can be such a thing – neophyte is probably a binary state but I digress, when it comes to art is that you just take things as they are. … Continue reading →

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