Category Archives: General

This is for posts that have no real specific category, such as Art or Photography

What are you going to do when you’re not saving the world?

It has been a busy few days with the web site starting to come into some sort of focus. Still a long day to go but I feel I’m closer to the end than the beginning. I worked out that … Continue reading

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You are my Angel…comes on wings from above…neutralize every man inside

It has been a busy few days and I’m not sure I know when it will end.   For some time, and I mean some time – years really, I’ve been threatening to rewrite a history web site and I’m … Continue reading

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A Man With a Hat

A lot of things going on at the moment so I only have the creative juices for a quick sketch here and there. This is one I made this morning which is a multi media ink drawing/digital painting . Simon … Continue reading

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The first of the year !

Ding dong merrily on high Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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DPReview Recommends: Best Compact Cameras for Travel: Digital Photography Review

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7118583476/dpreview-recommends-best-compact-cameras-for-travel?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=generic This is a fascinating article but I feel totally misses the point. If you are travelling the best camera that you need is you phone camera…little hassle, always with you etc. if this is the case then in my … Continue reading

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Welcome back brushes

I’ve just checked and it is nearly two months since I made a painting using Brushes…what have I been doing with my time? Anyway I quite like jovial cove – almost a bit Falstaffesque. I also think that the looser … Continue reading

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Giraffe

Having just watched the Imagine programme about the remarkable Judith Kerr I felt compelled to make a drawing of a giraffe…not sure why a giraffe but that doesn’t matter right now. Anyway, my first giraffe was from memory and had … Continue reading

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We’re ashes on the ground…don’t say I’ll walk away

I guess it was only matter of time before I came around to one of the best photo’s ever taken – Neil Leifer’s Clay v Liston – comic book chic…  

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Making believe this is what you’ve conceived

Oh Yeah… so the song goes.   Some of the drawings I made just for the heck of it.  The only rule I had was that there was not going to be any rubbing out – each mark had to … Continue reading

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Through these fields of destruction… I’ve witnessed all your suffering

In life’s great game some days you on top and other days life steam rolls you.  Yesterday was one of the later days – nothing like as bad as I’ve had but bad enough to make me an exhibition opening … Continue reading

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