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Another stab at Scarlet

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Guthlac

Had another go at trying to make a likeness of Scarlett Johansson and this time I think I might have got it a bit better.Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Doing a Vermeer

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Guthlac

I was watching the Girl with the Pearl Earring last night and it inspired me to run off a sketch of the said woman. Initially I wanted to make it a likeness of Scarlett Johansson but this quickly got away from me and as I tried to recover this ano… Continue reading →

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From the freezer

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Guthlac

Thankfully we are back into a more normal, whatever that might mean, winter and for now the frozen tundra has gone away. However, it looks like it may well return over the next few days. So here are a couple of photos I made during the last ice ag… Continue reading →

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Pastels

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Guthlac

More experimentation. I can now make an acceptable likeness of my father – well at least the last two drawings are turning out like him so based on this I have decided that the aforementioned fact is correct. So much for statistics! Given this I h… Continue reading →

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Working with my father

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Guthlac

Well the New Year is well under way. People are going back to work – oh how I am glad I no longer have to do that! All we need now is for schools to go back and we will be back to normality. So what I have I been doing? Well most of the morning I … Continue reading →

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Another year over and a new one just begun…

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Guthlac

So that was 2010 and what a year it has been. I started off with grand plans which I have set out at length in this blog only to find by the end of the year my life has gone in a totally different direction – I have no idea how this new year will … Continue reading →

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Web Site Blues…

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Guthlac

I have just spent sometime trying to set up one of my friends new web site only to fail miserably. I have no idea why it won’t work but I suspect the ‘free service’ is little more than a con (perhaps I am being unfair on the unnamed company as thi… Continue reading →

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Our carriers have proven over time to offer a very efficient and reliable service. However…

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Guthlac

Whinge, Whinge Whinge. That’s what I feel like doing. The Royal Mail has yet again proven that they are not able to deliver items on time. I have placed an order with Amazon and they have been up front about the problems they are having with the p… Continue reading →

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Battling real emotions

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Guthlac

I have set my self a new goal, I suppose you could call it a sort of a New Years resolution, only it is not. I am going to make a drawing of my father. Now there are a number of problems with this. The first is that he died nearly four years ago, … Continue reading →

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Back to serious drawing

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Guthlac

Before I start I have been asked to point out that none of the women I have drawn and posted are known to me. They are all based on photographs I have found on the Internet. So I have moved away from the Madison Avenue style book and back to what … Continue reading →

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