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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

Cambridge # 02

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Guthlac

Apart from the the students and possibly their tutors charging head long along the cramped steers of Cambridge the other thing yesterday was the rain and the people. Whilst it wasn’t a down pour it was, nonetheless, damp most of the day. This mean… Continue reading →

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Cambridge

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Guthlac

Just back from a day out at Cambridge. Very tired at the moment but one overriding impression is bicycle. Throughout the town centre you had to be aware of the the blasted things being ridden at varying speeds through the crowds or traffic or both… Continue reading →

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Meryl’s mouth

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Guthlac

First stab at this – needs some work doing on it – practice makes perfect .Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Meryl’s eyes

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Guthlac

Having messed around with Meryl Streep’s portrait I have decided to get serious and start to make really good drawing. As I am going to use pen and ink I need to get a really close examination of the face. This is the first preliminary sketch of t… Continue reading →

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Meryl Steep – sort of

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Guthlac

More pen and ink. This time a sort of portrait of Meryl Streep – the new Iron Lady. This shows one of the problems with pen and ink – once you have made a mark then it is very difficult to correct. In this case I have made her face too narrow and … Continue reading →

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A bit of a pen and ink

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Guthlac

So there I was last night watching TV and I suddenly felt the urge to make some pen and ink drawings. This, in part, was as a result of watching a programme about the illustration for Alice in Wonderland. So for the st of the evening I produced a … Continue reading →

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40 mbit

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Guthlac

It has been almost a week since I upgraded to BT Infinity and started to get 40 mbit broadband. As with everything to do with the internet things aren’t exactly what they say on the tin. My actual speed is 32 mbit but this is still nearly six time… Continue reading →

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How do you draw dark skin?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Guthlac

This is not a particularly good drawing for a number of reasons but I am not too bothered about that at the moment. The main question I was trying to address was how do you make a drawing of a person with dark skin? I’m not sure I have answered th… Continue reading →

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Wild Game Hunting

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Guthlac

Not sure whether this is a very good drawing? I seem to have rushed this and wasn’t too concerned about proportions so I can’t say I am too happy with the result. I even don’t think the post production on the iPad worked. So as usual this has left… Continue reading →

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Learning about paper

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Guthlac

The other week I bought some cheap sketch pads an initially I thought I might have made a mistake. However, now I am using graphite and suddenly what appeared to be suspect paper seems to have come alive. Of course another reason could be ‘user er… Continue reading →

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