Author Archives: Guthlac

Not long before good old St Nick will be travelling over head in his sleigh – of course he has already been hard at it for almost 12 hours given the time difference etc but let’s not let reality intervene. So I thought it would be fun to have a po… Continue reading →

Well it is Christmas time so may I wish anyone who might stumble upon my work over the next day or so a Merry Christmas and have a wonderful and fulfilling new year.Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk Continue reading →

There was a time when I was very keen on adding Keywords for every little aspect to my photographs. At times I went a bit overboard and added keywords to photographs that weren’t correct – this is one of those occasions. According to the keyword t… Continue reading →

Well it has been a real struggle but in the end the young woman is starting become and interesting face and therefore an interesting portrait. I have learnt that trying to treat digital painting as similar to real life painting is not that useful…. Continue reading →

Having failed to really get to grips with the earlier photoshop painting I did I decided to go and have another go – this time just trying something simple and within my comfort zone – a portrait. Well one and half hours later this is the story so… Continue reading →

So it is back to photoshop and trying to create some form of painting – this really isn’t as simple as it might be as I seem to be able to produce something interesting using Brushes on the iPad. However, this just isn’t the case and whilst this i… Continue reading →

Here is part two of tonight’s night owl production. Guess who the subject of the programme was.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

Over the past few months I have found that I’m staying up later and later. One of the things I seem to be doing at night is drawing and this is an example from this evening – it’s based on some renaissance statue I saw on some programme I had reco… Continue reading →

Over the past few days I sort of lost my nerve when it came to producing likenesses of people. So I decide to take the plunge and just sit in front of the TV and sketch what was on. This was the result and I have to say it turned out a lot better … Continue reading →

This is an iPhotograph I produced sometime in the early part of last year and looking back at I think it is bit more interesting than I thought at the time. Now I’m not sure if I’ve posted this before.Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.c… Continue reading →