Grids – the thing not to do with a thick head

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Guthlac

Well that was a wonderful waste of half an hour of my life. I’m feeling a bit groggy today, cold related not drink – mores the pity. However this didn’t stop me from wanting to make a new painting in Photoshop. This time I was going to make it more of a much more life like painting so I would need to lay a grid down over the source and the document I was going to paint on. After much faffing around go the two documents the same size and so was able to lay down a grid. Yes this was fine so now to label the grid with numbers across the top and letters down the side. Again no problem with the source document. Then I moved to the painting document and did the same. I was out by one line. After much head scratching, checking document sizes etc I still couldn’t explain it. It just couldn’t be happening to me!

Well it wasn’t. I finally rechecked the letters down the side and found that I had missed one line – hence the discrepancy. I’m not sure how many choice anglo Saxon terms I muttered to and about myself as I corrected this. Something you really need when you you are still feeling the effects of a heavy cold. Happy Boxing Day!

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Christmas Ideas

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Guthlac
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This afternoon I thought I would just create something in Photoshop – we aren’t having our Christmas until this evening – so I made a very basic sketch of the head of the Michelangelo statue David and took it from there.  This is the result.  

Simon Marchini 

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Santa Claus – messing around with a Christmas Theme

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Guthlac

Not long before good old St Nick will be travelling over head in his sleigh – of course he has already been hard at it for almost 12 hours given the time difference etc but let’s not let reality intervene. So I thought it would be fun to have a pop at painting Santa and was the result. Quite pleased with it actually.

Merry Christmas ….Ho Ho Ho

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Guthlac
Well it is Christmas time so may I wish anyone who might stumble upon my work over the next day or so a Merry Christmas and have a wonderful and fulfilling new year.

Simon Marchini 

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Christmas Robin

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Guthlac
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There was a time when I was very keen on adding Keywords for every little aspect to my photographs.  At times I went a bit overboard and added keywords to photographs that weren’t correct – this is one of those occasions.   According to the keyword then this is a robin yet I have it also recorded as a red kite – I suspect the second part is correct although I haven’t seen a kite this close outside of a zoo so I can’t confirm that.   This was captured in 2005.

Simon Marchini 

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Back to Basics – day 2

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Guthlac
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Well it has been a real struggle but in the end the young woman is starting become and interesting face and therefore an interesting portrait.   I have learnt that trying to treat digital painting as similar to real life painting is not that useful.  I watched a video on you tube about painting with photoshop and that showed me how to create a copy of the photo you were basing your work.  Now I have no idea why you would want to do that – but this is something I’ve banged on about before with photo realistic drawings and painting – they leave me cold.   However, the video was really useful in opening my eyes to the possibility of using Photoshop to enhance the image you create.  This is really a good time to say well duh – after all that is exactly how I create my photographic art but i resisted it you a while but in the end it helped to create a much more powerful image.

So will there be a day 3?  I’m really not sure.

One final thing we are all still here – so much for the doom mungers.

Simon Marchini 

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Going back to basics

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Guthlac
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Having failed to really get to grips with the earlier photoshop painting I did I decided to go and have another go – this time just trying something simple and within my comfort zone – a portrait.  Well one and half hours later this is the story so far.   Lets see what tomorrow might bring.

Simon Marchini 

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Sunday Girl

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Guthlac
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So it is back to photoshop and trying to create some form of painting – this really isn’t as simple as it might be as I seem to be able to produce something interesting using Brushes on the iPad.  However, this just isn’t the case and whilst this is an interesting image I can’t say I’m satisfied with the result.  Still you have to start somewhere. 

Simon Marchini 

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Night owl no 2 – Jools Hooland

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Guthlac

Here is part two of tonight’s night owl production. Guess who the subject of the programme was.

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Becoming a bit of a night owl. No 1

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Guthlac

Over the past few months I have found that I’m staying up later and later. One of the things I seem to be doing at night is drawing and this is an example from this evening – it’s based on some renaissance statue I saw on some programme I had recorded on my sky box.

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