Help Help I’m being oppressed

One of the joys of getting older is that you can start to moan and be grumpy about all manner of illogical things. However, this morning my human rights are being oppressed because I’ve been quietly, I’m sure my wife and son wouldn’t agree with that description, moaning about all manner of things and they won’t let me. Actually they are ignoring my grumbling – surely the worst form of oppression – and I get the feeling that this is the way life will be from now on in. “…Help Help … come and see the oppression inherent in the system…” as someone once said.

As for the drawing this really got away from me. I’ve been trying to be methodical in my approach after seeing a rather good YouTube video of drawing technique. However, I forgot one small thing – double and triple check the proportions as you go along. For ages I hadn’t done this and then found that my original blocking out was wrong which made a nonsense of the drawing. I really got frustrated by all this – more grumpy old man – until I realised my error and corrected most of the proportion problems. Not a perfect drawing but it does show some movement in the right direction as far as I’m concerned.

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Confined spaces

Much as I would like to think that I’m dextrous and precise in what I do the reality of my life is that I am not. Being nearly 2 metres tall I should have woken up to the fact by now that I don’t have the motor control to work on small items or spaces with any success. I’m a broad stroke person who when trying to produce something in a confined space never really achieves what he set out to.

So it is with my sketch book. I love the small size but I just don’t seem to have the control to make the most of the space. It is perhaps something I should work on or perhaps I should accept this and work around it. It is frustrating nonetheless.

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Wimpole Hall

Had a bit of a day out at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire … not one of my favourite National Trust properties .. However better than sitting at home on a wonderful August day.

Simon Marchini
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Gone over just a bit girlie

I know this is all a bit un PC but that is the way I feel about this ink drawing. First and fore most it shows up one of the problems of ink drawing – once you’ve made the mark your stuck with it – and with this drawing there is very little you can do to change matters as it is so bleached out. However, apart from that I really enjoyed getting in touch with my feminine side. Well actually it is not that girlie, in so much as the marks I’ve drawn are still very forceful and probably lack the more insightful mark making that many women would have made. I have also bleached out the whites in post production so this gives the image a much more poster feel. There are worst ways to spend 30 minutes of your life – that is getting in touch with your feminine side. Ha ha.

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Practice

Carrying on the ink theme I thought I would brush up on my life drawing…so I made this ink sketch of a nude. Now for most people this wouldn’t be too unusual but for me I was able to fit the whole body on to the page – the point of the exercise was to try and do this. It seemed to work out quite well.

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The Giant Redwood continues to thrive

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I think I’m a bit of a ink spot

No I’ve not taken a Rorschach test – rather I’m making images using ink or ink substitute. Yesterday I sat done and made a sketch on brushes of the actress Eva Mendez using a brush that resembles an ink pen. This morning I made this sketch of Sherlock using a pen and maker pens. Perhaps this is the way forward for me or perhaps I should just enjoy sketching and leave the deeper analysis to the likes of Rorschach…now there is a thought – the Watchman character is a perfect subject for a pen drawing.

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Losing my religion

Seemed such a good idea..pride and prejudice as a set of paintings…neither seemed to work out quite how I wanted and so I’ve decided to give them a bit of a break…could well go back to them…

Simon Marchini
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New York…now my plane is touching down…

I think I’ve reached the end of this painting…this wasn’t what I had in mind but I’m really happy with the end result.

Simon Marchini
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Just when you think you have an idea where you are you realise you’re nowhere

My latest fade is Pinterest and I have to say I could spend hours following my interests. However, after spending an hour or so exploring the extraordinary works and pinning some outstanding work I’ve come to the conclusion I’m nowhere. Of course this is an over reaction but it is, nonetheless rather humbling to realise there are so many talented people out there. However on a more positive note it does inspire me to continue working at what I do. Perhaps one day I might not feel so…one day.

Simon Marchini
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