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Christmas comes but once a year…so they say

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Guthlac

Any one who has been to Disney World Market Place knows that this is not true – Christmas is a festival that just keeps giving – to the Disney Corp – all year around. However, for the rest of us the great Christmas buying spree is just about to st… Continue reading →

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Work in progress

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Guthlac

I find it fascinating to record a drawing being made, just how does something change over time as you work on it? I suspect that this may say more about the drawing than the final result or perhaps it is like sausage making – you don’t want to see… Continue reading →

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My god – I have been making some photographs…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Guthlac

Wot no iPhone?! Yes it is true I am able to use a ‘real’ camera as well. It has been snowing for several days and I finally decided to get out there and make some photographs – with my 5D. I say make as the camera was the only the first step in th… Continue reading →

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With age comes wisdom…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Guthlac

I have no idea whether this is a coined saying or something I have made up. I am starting to realise that the only thing you get as you get old are aches and pains where you never thought there were any. However, experience does appear to have a b… Continue reading →

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Pregnant Women

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Guthlac

I am very interested in the creative process – just how did the artist come to the answers he/she has? I am also very insecure about loosing ‘good’ drawings by later attempts to alter/improve/change the drawing. So with this in mind I have made a … Continue reading →

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Searching for the perfect proportions

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Guthlac

What an interesting evening I have just had. I have been researching the perfect body proportions. Perfect is a very loaded term I know so perhaps I should say I was looking for examples of male and female bodies that meet the classic western art … Continue reading →

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Having a bit of a Lord of the Ring feast

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Guthlac

Just bought myself the Lord of the Rings trilogy on Blue Ray and so I am going to have a bit of a Middle Earth weekend. With the weather we have at the moment then there are far worst things to do. One ring to rule them all! Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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The silence and the fury

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Guthlac

Oh how I wish I had the photograph that this drawing is based on. It is from a series of photographs that Paul Fusco made in 2000 at a protest in New York city over the death of a suspect shot by the NYPD. It is full of power and outrage and sadne… Continue reading →

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Working with the iPhone in Walsall

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Guthlac

yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away… well according to the Beatles that is. Actually yesterday all my troubles seemed to be baring down on top of me – now this is quite so. Anyway, even with my state of mind I went out and captured a co… Continue reading →

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Yipee I’m back on line

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Guthlac

Order has been restored. The Internet has been reestablished in my small little corner of the world. Funny thing is I was just starting to get use to living a short while with out it. There were a lot of small jobs that had been put off were being… Continue reading →

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