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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Project LV One – Day 192 – Mushrooms

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Guthlac

…Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you… That is how I feel about these drawings I made of mushrooms I made at my art class this morning.  The quick sketch I made seemed to have more life than … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 191 – Lines

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Guthlac

Sunday afternoon and what to do?  I know what I’ll make a sketch of a John Singer Sargent portrait painting.  The intention was to make the sketch using only straight lines.  I just about managed that.  

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Project LV One – Day 190 – The First of November

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Guthlac

I don’t want come all over ‘we’re doomed’ but it is the 1st of November and so very very mild outside – currently the temperature is a balmy 19 degrees C (66 degrees f in old money).  We still have … Continue reading →

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Some observations about Yosemite Sam or OS X 10.10

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Guthlac

Well I’ve been running OS X 10.10 (Much prefer this to the naff – in my opinion – practice of calling upgrades by a name) and it is getting more and more annoying.  As with the way of these things … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 189 – When things go wrong they go wrong…

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Guthlac

The title sounds far more dramatic than things actually were but as you can see I somewhat screwed up the proportions of this life drawing I was making this morning.  I have written before about internal contradictions in any drawing … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 188 – Faces of Leicester No. 1

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Guthlac

So this is the finished drawing – quite pleased with it.  It is also the end of another book in the Project LV One series.  It is all down hill from here as there is less than 6 months to … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 188 – Faces, Sharpie and Pierre Noir

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Guthlac

There are number of reasons why I have decided to make a series of portrait drawings which I’m still coming to terms with.  So here are the first in the series which I’m thinking of calling The Faces of Leicester. … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 186 – Confused…

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Guthlac

So one day into the new Yosemite Sam upgrade little things are starting to annoy.  The first thing is that one of the little functions I used to use on Safari has disappeared.  I suspect that it is still there … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 186 – Welcome to Yosemite Sam

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Guthlac

  So I’ve gone and done – I’ve updated to Yosemite.  So far so good the only problem I’ve encountered was with the Blurb Book program but I just had to down load the Javascript update (not sure why this … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 185 – I really must be the pupil from Hell

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Guthlac

I guess I am a real pain in my latest art class because I will not stick with the programme.  If it is any consolation to my latest tutor I never have been able so he is not alone.   … Continue reading →

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