Category Archives: General

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

Moving the the male form

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Guthlac

This morning I woke up with the idea to practice drawing the male form so after an early breakfast this was what I produced. It is far from perfect but this is the point. The more you practice the better … Continue reading →

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Unfinished work….art without the pixels

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Guthlac

I started this ‘analog’ painting before Christmas and haven’t really got back to it since then. I’m really not sure why that is, it certainly is because I haven’t been in the mood to create since then! Perhaps I might … Continue reading →

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Ooops

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Guthlac

I think I need to work on solution to the proportions problems as I’ve made Batman, well now how can I put this, look like he’s had too many portions. So as opposed to being this superfit superhero I’ve made … Continue reading →

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Cat woman superteam

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Guthlac

Well I enjoyed making the cat woman drawing last night I though I would make a second – again in part to work on the proportion issue. So this time I decided to make the more more statuesque Cat Woman … Continue reading →

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Cat woman sketch

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Guthlac

Over the past few weeks I’ve been having one or two problems getting the proportions of a human body correct when drawing free hand. I’ve worked out a new technique and I thought I’d try it out a reasonably complicated … Continue reading →

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More looking at Diego Velazquez

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Guthlac

I’ve now decided that Velazquez has risen up my list of greatest painters. I know this is a ridiculous thing to do but in truth we all do it. We can’t help it, it’s what makes us humans – making … Continue reading →

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After Velazquez – Day 2

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Guthlac

Day 2 of this little painting. I had meant to work on this some more last night but I left my iPad at a friends so wasn’t able to do so. In a funny way this helped because I was … Continue reading →

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Problems with Email

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Guthlac

Yet another test of the email system! I have posted to both my Blogger account and WordPress account. The Blogger account seems fine but the WordPress doesn’t seem to have worked so this is a post just to WordPress to … Continue reading →

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After Velazquez

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Guthlac

Had half an hour to kill so I thought I would start on a painting with very restricted colours and hues….this is the result from the Velazquez painting of Woman frying eggs c 1618 Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Nude Woman No 2 – I’ve taken it as far as I can

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Guthlac

There reaches a point in any painting when you can’t take it any further. I think I’ve reached that point with Nude Woman No 2. I’ve included a progress image just to show how the painting evolved over the past … Continue reading →

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