Category Archives: General

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

Connections

At times you have to wonder if we really do have free will or that there is some devine hand guiding what we do. Last week I was studying the iron age salt routes that may have run across south … Continue reading

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A lovely bank holiday morning

It’s a wonderful spring day, blue skies,warm breeze and sunshine. It promises to be a great bank holiday( national holiday). I was in Bruges on May 1st, the continental version of this holiday and the weather was great then as … Continue reading

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Some more images from my cultural trip

Slowly getting through the back log… Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Am I finished?

I don’t know but then again I’m in good company. Titian was still working on The Death of Actaeon when he died. He’d only been at it for 15 years! So perhaps a day or two to mull over things … Continue reading

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Painting Skin

It sounds so easy – skin what is the problem? But skin isn’t an easy subject to capture – even the best computer generated animations can’t get it right. The more you look at skin you realise the less you … Continue reading

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The end of the day

The painting is slowly coming together. Still not sure whether I’ve got any answers yet about the reality question – time will tell. Still a good days work. Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Searching for reality

Just how far do you make a digital painting real? Setting aside the question of what exactly real is just how do you approach such matters? Do you hint or go for full photo realism? What about plagiarism ? My … Continue reading

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Bruges

Having a little bit of a problem uploading this to Facebook … lets see how this works. Brugges – http://pnr.ma/afqSpH Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Book Ends

Well I’m back and I’m totally clapped out. On the face of it I did nothing over the past 3 days as my good friend David drove everywhere, including a drive back from Hastings to home in one go, around … Continue reading

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After a goodnight sleep

Early to bed and early to rise…I had time just to do a bit of drawing whilst listening to the New Quiz podcast…a nice way to start the day. Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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