Author Archives: Guthlac

So you want to buy something from the Apple stores wall display and you can’t find sales person (whatever the approved apple term for them is) well now you can scan and go. I used the new service and I have to say it is really easy. What the app d… Continue reading →

Now these are wonderfully interesting watercolours. Dima Rebushttp://dimarebus.com/ — Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app. Available for free in the App Store.www.zite.comSent from my iPad Continue reading →

I look at these incredibly crafted pieces and my heart drops. Not because they lack craft but because they lack soul. I may have said this before but to paraphrase Hockney…” where is the poetry?…” Plus all of these are copies of other people’s… Continue reading →

I read this and couldn’t help myself – I just had to scream at my iPad – “What is the Point of This!!!” The canon is better even at its worst setting and what would happen if you closed it down to, oh lets say f8 or perhaps the light conditions ar… Continue reading →

If these paintings are as striking in real life as the images on line are then they would be worth seeing. Beautiful Oil Paintings Using Only a Palette Knifehttp://twistedsifter.com/2012/09/oil-paintings-using-only-a-palette-knife-leonid-afremov/ … Continue reading →

I guess this video is just another demonstration that drawing any form of distinctions within art is ultimately pointless. Yet I still try to – what does that say about me? Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk Continue reading →

A thoughtful analysis of how things probably went at Apple – hubris anyone? Exploring Localhttp://blog.telemapics.com/ — Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app. Available for free in the App Store.www.zite.comSent from my iPad Continue reading →

I am starting on a project to create a large drawing/watercolour of an Iron Age community with a number of people prominent in the drawing. The question is what do Iron Age people look like? This is an interesting question as the answer is we don’… Continue reading →

This drawing is based on a Marilyn image which, if I’m honest as got away from me. That being said it might not be such a great likeness but its a great face and to be quite honest I don’t care that the likeness anymore – I just want to see what f… Continue reading →

The mapping system is a joke at the moment – I tried to find my address on the satellite and found that it is covered in cloud – perhaps that is caused by the stream coming out of my ears! Even the detail I could see isn’t as in depth as Google. W… Continue reading →