Lt. Kije – Unfinished Sympathy

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Guthlac

End of the first session and things are not right just yet…still time for reflection as to how I might change things.

 

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And so a new year begins….

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Guthlac

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

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No More

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Guthlac

It would be nice to know exactly when a painting is completed but sadly most of the time you realise that it was completed just before you made the last brush stroke. Also time has a great influence when any painting is completed as when you come back to view a painting a couple of days, weeks, months or even years later suddenly you notice things that you really would love to change. Well this is completed and I’m doing No More.

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

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Stayin Alive – I’m going nowhere

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Guthlac

Kylie Showgirl

You my brown eyed girl…when we used to sing…

 

 

 

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Matt actually working

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Guthlac

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

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Just like taken candy from a baby – I’m Under Attack

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Guthlac

Pop Star Kylie

Beautiful morning – after the storms that have been blowing through for the past few days this is a bit of light relief.  Still working on the Petrology gig – very interesting – you can’t beat a bit granite extrusion in your pot!

Last night I just caught the end of a programme about the music of Abba and I must admit I just didn’t recognise the music they were talking about.  Now I’m an unreconstructed Abba fan – always have – even when it was deeply unpopular to be so.  Anyway, the bit of the programme I saw last night was waxing lyrical about The Visitor and how it was so dark and brooding.  Well I didn’t pick up on any of this – I just liked the tune.  I suspect there is some rewriting of history going on here or perhaps I wasn’t listening hard enough.  Who knows and quite frankly who cares – I just like the music for itself not for any other deconstructed reason.

 

I cannot move, I’m standing
Numb and frozen

As they might say

 

 

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Petrology

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Guthlac

Petrology

Before Christmas things were in a bit of crises with my research.   Suddenly I was looking at two years of work unravelling and today Petrology came to the rescue.  Strange how things change with just one single word.

I hear the door bell ringing and the panic takes me

 

 

 

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On a night like this….

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Guthlac

Kylie

One of the most frustrating questions that any artists can here when they have tried to make a likeness of someone is when some one asks “…who is it?…”.   I was pondering this question this morning when I was creating this drawing.  Just what is a likeness – especially when you are trying to make a likeness of someone you’ve never meet and who works so hard to control their image.  On top of this photograph you are using is actually not the standard image that the person has associated with them.  I have no idea what the answer is to any of these questions I just like this portrait I made this morning – I guess because it was such a struggle.   As for who it is …well Who is it?

 

 

 

 

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Here and Now

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Guthlac

 

MIlas Kunas

I have a confession to make.  I love trashy pop music.  Music that doesn’t have any deep mean but just is a great tune or harmony or something else that can hook you – that is my sort of music.  As I right this I’m listening to Steps – utterly brilliant and utterly trashy nonsense.

Christmas hasn’t turned out the way I had planned just a few days ago.  You see I was planning getting up early and drive to the coast for dawn…it would have only taken an hour or so at that time of morning.  Yes that was the thing I was going to do.  That is until the weather started to close in and the truth started to close in about getting up at 5am on Christmas day.  Now I’ve worked on many Christmas days and nights so getting wasn’t a problem then but now well – we didn’t do it.  Instead we had a nice walk through an almost deserted in the morning – quite refreshing but not dawn over the sea.

As for the image – this is an experiment I though of doing with a bit of mix media, a drawing and digital image with a bit of work in Photoshop.  I think it looks rather 19th century.

Life like a time lived in such a dream…like the birds on winterwood

 

 

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Under Attack…that’s where you belong

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Guthlac

Cate Blanchett

This is a book end painting.  I started to take Digital Painting seriously this time last year and so I though it might be useful to produce something to book end this extraordinary year.  I really don’t this is bad start – not sure how many I’ll between now and the end of December.

Waiting for a star to fall.  Oh BTW should anyone from Australia or New Zealand read this…Happy Christmas…we’ve got another 6 hours to go.  Why in even’s name would some one from Australia read this blog???

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