Category Archives: General

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

Let me tell you a story about a sausage

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Guthlac

If you ever wanted to know how the British Government works There is a wonderful series of comedy programmes made by the BBC called Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.  Whilst they were made in the late 1970’s and early … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 176 – Some Frames

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Guthlac

Busy busy afternoon – the new frames arrived so out with the varnish and get the paintings framed – really quite satisfying.

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Sometimes I really do dispair

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Guthlac

So we have just over 6 months to go to the next election and already I feel a well of blackness consuming me. We have a set of politicians who, lets not be too blunt about this, are useless. It … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 174 – Old man take a look at my life…

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Guthlac

All curves are straight lines I believe when they are examined at extreme levels – I could be wrong.  Anyway, the reason I mentioned this is because I made this drawing this morning trying to us only straight lines.  I … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 169 – Internal Contradictions

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Guthlac

I have learnt the hard way that there reaches a point in the life of any painting that the internal contradictions are greater than the paintings ability to recover.  When this point is reached then there is only one thing … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 160 – Travelling

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Guthlac

 

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Project LV One – Day 159 – I DO NOT BELIEVE IT

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Guthlac

As I will be busy most of tomorrow I thought I would get this day’s post in advance.  Also I just couldn’t wait another moment to let cry my outrage.   IT IS NOT YET OCTOBER AND CHRISTMAS IS ALREADY … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 151 – Tilt

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the reassuring things about not being the first in something is that you know many have been there before.  So it is with painting…I know that many painters before me have reached a point when they realise that … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 149 – a little gentle drawing

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Guthlac

After all the excitement of the past day or so I thought it would be nice just to do a little drawing as a means to wind down or purge the system.

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Article: Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Guthlac

Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/upshot/scotland-independence-vote.html Sent via Flipboard Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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