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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 158 – After the Lord Mayor’s Show

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Guthlac

It really is a strange thing to do – combing a heavy American academic work on Stalin and the audio book of Stephen Fry’s latest autobiographical tome.  I find myself reading the Stalin book with Stephen Fry’s voice with strangely … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 157 – The Point of No return

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Guthlac

It has been my experience that a point is reached with any painting that the internal contradictions are so great that you either say enough is enough or you scrap the whole thing and start again.  I feel I have … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 156 – Hair…another step towards the 10,000 hours

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Guthlac

Good old Malcolm Gladwell – he really has set me on my way.  For those of you who don’t know Mr Gladwell was the author of Outliers: The story of success in which he puts forward the idea of you … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 155 – Waves

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Guthlac
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Project LV One – Day 154 – Variations on what is ‘real’

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Guthlac

yesterday I had an interesting conversation on what is real in art – specifically when does one art work morph into another.  This was brought about when we were discussing the validity of images made from old slides and neg’s … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 153 – the eye’s have it

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Guthlac

It has been a hard road to get these eyes somewhere near right but I think I am getting there.  

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Project LV One – Day 152 – Fresher’s Week

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Guthlac

It is that time of year…the freshers have arrived at one of our two local university – the DMU.  As I walked through these excited/anxious people of the future it brought back memories of my time at the DMU not … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 151 – Tilt

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the reassuring things about not being the first in something is that you know many have been there before.  So it is with painting…I know that many painters before me have reached a point when they realise that … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 150 – part 2

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Guthlac

Enough painting for one day – now time to think where to take things

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Project LV One – Day 150 – Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war…

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Guthlac

Once more unto the breath…   Enough of the Shakespeare …enough.  Anyway I am painting again and over these past few weeks the one thing I have learnt about how I paint is that I need to reflect on my … Continue reading →

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