Santa Claus – messing around with a Christmas Theme

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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Deck Twelve

Over the past few days I sort of lost my nerve when it came to producing likenesses of people. So I decide to take the plunge and just sit in front of the TV and sketch what was on. This was the result and I have to say it turned out a lot better than I feared. In fact it was rather invigorating just producing half a dozen or so quick sketches. Perhaps I’ll do it again.

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Not sure if I have posted this before – another from the archive

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This is an iPhotograph I produced sometime in the early part of last year and looking back at I think it is bit more interesting than I thought at the time.  Now I’m not sure if I’ve posted this before.

Simon Marchini 

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