Category Archives: General

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

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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Another stab at Calke Abbey

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

In truth there are a number of things not quite right with this photograph – but I quite like it. Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Working on the Female Form

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

More work completed on the Nude No2 painting. Still more interested in tonal ranges than detail. Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Art Class

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

Last night was my weekly art class and this time we had a male model to capture. Now I don’t know if it is just a local thing but we normally have a female model to draw but not last … Continue reading →

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Sex really sells

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

I know I’ve written about this before, and do doubt again, but I’m really amazed as to how you can so easily attract attention to your sight by using sex. yesterday I blogged about a new painting I’m making of … Continue reading →

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Calke Abbey

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

Having spent a wonderful spring morning wondering around the parkland at Calke Abbey I thought it would be fun to put together a little album of images I’ve made in the past at Calke. Some I believe I’ve posted before … Continue reading →

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A question of likeness

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Guthlac

I back working on the female form and the photo I’m basing this painting on has an interesting history in itself. It is allegedly a fake of a minor Hollywood celebrity’s head photoshoped onto the body of a model posing. … Continue reading →

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As far as I can take it….I think???

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Guthlac

Another hour or so working at this painting and I’ve probably taken it as far as a I can. I think that Ms Knightley has end up looking rather like a stern near eastern governess for the time of the … Continue reading →

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Brushes Painting or is that a doodle?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Guthlac

Whilst watching some thing mind blowingly boring I started to doodle this. Not quite sure where a doodle ends and a painting begins. Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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