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Well I’ve dug my paint brushes out and started a ‘real’ painting. It really is exhausting after a while – what a wimp I am!

I’m on line at:

www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac
http://simonmarchini.posterous.com

www.simonmarchini.co.uk

I hope you enjoy

After spending hours working on a painting it was really fun just to mess about.

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There reaches a point when you have to say enough is enough and I think I have reached that point. I’m reasonably pleased with the result – I say reasonably because I also think my work is rubbish when I walk away but when I revisit after a couple of weeks then I change my view – just shows what I know.

Anyway – who is it? This is an interesting question as it is nobody or rather I wasn’t trying to make this into a likeness but rather just to produce an interesting painting. Now I could say who was the inspiration for this but what is the point as the final painting is nothing like the original photograph.

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So far so good. The painting is starting become a very interesting image – however there are so many things that I need to do on this I really don’t know where to start. At least I have resolved the colour of the jacket – I think?

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