Category Archives: Art

This is for all my art related posts

Project LV One – Day 243 – My and Rene

Anyone examining my Pinterest boards will notice that over the past few weeks I have been taken by the work of René Gruau.  I find his simple use of line and colour very appealing. If you had read yesterday’s blog you … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 199 – Existentialist crises of confidence

Thanks to IOS 8 my stylus doesn’t seem to want to work anymore with Brushes, the rather aging graphics app I use on my iPad.  Now I haven’t used brushes in months so I have had to learn how to … Continue reading

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Project LV One Vol 6 Book now published

If you want to have a look at the latest volume then this is the link:   http://blur.by/10IgMrG  

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Project LV One – Volume 5 has now been published

  If you want to view the book then go to http://blur.by/1EpYafT

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Project LV One – Day 154 – Variations on what is ‘real’

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 131 – Icons

I’m not sure why these two images go together but I somehow feel they do.  I guess tomorrow I may well have a different view – such is life.

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Project LV One – Day 101 – Tonal Range and a Frog

Life is a whole series of unintended consequences or is that just me?   Continuing my Stephen Fry theme I decided to try once more make a pastel drawing of Mr Fry only it turned out to be a Conté sanguine … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 78 – Back to Brushes

Trouble with making a painting is that it pulls you apart – well that is how I feel.   This was made using Brushes on the iPad and at one level I really like it – yet at another I … Continue reading

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2013 Yearbook – now published.

Well I have done it…I’ve managed to pull together my latest yearbook.  If anyone is interested here is a link to the preview: http://blur.by/1okeu9F Enjoy.  

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Project LV One – Day 17 – thinking about last year

Choices and decisions.  This is the whole point of life – we all make choices whether we want to or not – our lives are resplendent in them and the we have to learn to live with the results.  One … Continue reading

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