Project LV One – Day 225 – Goodbye and thanks for all the fish…

Baby Panda

Just over a month ago I lost my sketchbook and since then I seem to have had an outflowing of creativity.  However, one thing I have learnt from that exercise is that I should always try and capture my scribblings just in case I loose the sketchbook in which they are made.

So I have now come to the end of the my replacement sketchbook, in truth I have several on the go at any one time, but my main one is now full of my little doodles and drawings.  What have I learnt over the past month I didn’t know before?  Well I guess the biggest thing is that I just love to sketch and draw and that I somewhat doubt I have the temperament to spend several days , let alone weeks or months, on any art work.  I am not sure this is a sign of the much bemoaned shortening of attention spans that our children now suffer from (such an old fart concept in my view – kids are kids and they will make just as big a fuck of their lives as we did plus given the mess we have made of things we are in no position to judge!)

Well thank you and good bye or perhaps more telling – the sketch book is full long live the sketchbook.  I do write some utter nonsense sometimes.

Man in a Hat

Page of Woman

Worried Elffin Woman

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Project LV One – Day 224 – Catching Up or Avoiding the Inevitable…

Seaham Storm

From time to time do you just wonder what the hell you are doing here?  I have got that feeling overtime I sat down in front of the my latest painting and I have to say I can’t really answer the question – time for some prevarication me thinks.

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So time to run back to my safety zone and catch up with some of the photographic images I made on my our cultural trip to the North East.

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I really have no idea what this is all about but at least I don’t have to face the painting again…I need to sort my head out a bit (nothing new there).

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 223 – Critical Stage

Hazel 002

I love listening to artists describing their art work at a ‘…critical stage…’ – I wish I knew when such stages have been reached in advance.  I usually discover that I have just passed a critical stage when things go wrong.   Perhaps no one really knows when such a stage has been reached because to do so needs to have some form of presence which I doubt even the greatest artist possess.

Anyway, for the record, this morning I tried to tighten things up and then box in the bare canvas – whether this is critical I really have no idea.

 

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Project LV One – Day 222 – Doing Battle Once More…

Hazel 001

Painting is really really painful – so why the hell do I do it?   Well anyone who has been bitten by the bug knows the answer to this – I just have to.  It is the same as any other addiction and I am addicted.  I hope this doesn’t sound too up my own arse but it is who I feel.  I just have to paint or create something new.

So what is the story about this painting?  On Monday I made a rather bad drawing of this young woman and I wasn’t happy with my efforts.  In my defence I was working in an art class with all the pressures this brings so now I’m back in my studio and I can take my time and slowly build up the paint, mistake by mistake.

Let us see where this takes me.

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 221 – Normal Service Resumed…I think

Woman Ink Drawing

I really don’t know what happened yesterday but things just seemed to go all over the place.  Anyway things seem to be back to normal today – let’s hope that continues.  I wasn’t happy with the drawing I made yesterday at the art class for a number of reasons but mainly whilst it was a good likeness I just thought the drawing itself was poorly executed.  Such are life’s frustrations.

Yesterday also marked the complication of another volume.  Hopefully I’ll publish just in time for Christmas.

 

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Project LV One – Day 220 – Broadband Problems

Things are a little silly at the moment…the only way I seem to be able update my blog is via email – how strange

Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Project LV One – Day 219 – Loose

Anne Hathaway

 

After an absence of a few weeks I am finally back at my easel – this time with pierre noir and grey tone pastels.   Oh it feels good to be back.

 

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Project LV One – Day 218 – Rushing Around

Disney Quad - small

I don’t know why but this week has just flown by in a blur and most of next week looks like it is going to do the same – such is life.

 

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Project LV One – Day 217 – Searching for Black heads

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Strange how life leads you down strange and wonderful coincidences.  Yesterday, for reasons that are just too boring even for this blog, I found myself driving through Easington.  This was the mine which I believe used to dump waste in the North Sea, at Seaham, where I had just visited.  It is also used for great effect in the brilliant British movie Get Carter.

Today I find myself hunting for the signs of medieval mining in North West Leicestershire from the comfort of my home thanks to the wonderful Google Earth.  This wasn’t planned either.

The reason I was touring the high points of North East culture was to see a couple of really excellent exhibitions at the Lang and MIMA (See my partner in crime’s Blog for a full throated consideration of what we saw – BTW if you an artist or have an interest in art then David’ blog is well worth following)

Yesterday found us at the MIMA for the International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives 1915-1965 exhibition and as usual I fell foul of the illogical photography rules.  I fully respect the no flash rule but not being allowed to take photographs of works of art that we own, they were from the Tate collection, is just nonsense.  It is doubly so when you consider you get all the images you may want of the works on line anyway.  Just to add insult to injury I was allowed to take photos in one room but not another.  Oh so very silly.

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 After this it was back onto the road for the next cultural pit stop – this time at The Hepworth in Wakefield.  If by some floock you should bump into David do not under any circumstance believe any story he might tell you about how we got lost in Wakefield!

So today is catching up and looking for black heads, this is what I call the tell tale signs of medieval coal mines even though I had planned to drawing all day.  Such is life.

 

 

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Project LV One – 215? – Dodgy Jessica Rabbit

After a good nights sleep what better than a bit of drawing to wake up to…I give you a rough and ready Jessica Rabbit- probably the most unlikely Disney character ever

Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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