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There are some days when one just cannot help oneself. Today is one of those days. As I write this it is around midday and I’m still in my dressing gown! Many people think that when you retire, I prefer the term superannuated, you just stop, put y… Continue reading →

I’m back to the melodrama and this idea came into my head – so I had 20 minutes to kill and this was the result.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

Well the one veritable has happened – the Posterous service, which was bought by Twitter last year, is to close so in the not too distant future I’ll be changing by blog site again. Over the past few weeks it has been noticeable that the Posterous… Continue reading →

Whilst watching The Avengers…whatever they are called… I just felt like doing a little drawing on Brushes – this is the result.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spend an awful lot of time perfecting my digital painting technique and today I thought it would be a good time to try and record just how I do this. This was, inpart, as a result of a request from a friend but it… Continue reading →

Just kicking back and making a quick melodramatic sketch based on the melodrama theme I’ve been working on for the last week or so.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

I’ve had enough of Huffington post’s obsession with celebrity …. I should have known better but we all learn don’t we … so it’s goodbye Huffington Post I will no longer receive the latest nonsense about which unknown ‘celebrity’ has lost 1000l… Continue reading →

Well I’ve taken this portrait of Scarlett Johansson as far as I think I can take it. I’m quite pleased it has turned out the way it has – whether Ms Johansson would be pleased I suspect I’ll never know.Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini…. Continue reading →

With only two days to go before my the start of the life drawing class it is not time to get down to some serious practicing. It is one thing to create a nude drawing on the computer but it is something else to do it in the real world. So it is ti… Continue reading →