A bit black dog – Pope Innocent the Fry

One of those days today – nothing for it but sit back and just relax. What better way than to make a drawing from something off the tele – in this case Stephen Fry posing as pope Innocent the third. I used pens for this so there was no real opportunity to correct anything. This makes you think about every mark you make.

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A well known musician

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Hare Doodle

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I don’t what it is about hares but I find them fascinating – perhaps it has something to do with my interest in pre historic british culture.  Anyway, I knocked this little doodle up this morning just for the heck of it. 

Simon Marchini 

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The Night Shift

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One last photo before bed…it has been an exhausting day.

Simon Marchini 

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Cold Feet

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There reaches a point in one’s life when you realise that you are, perhaps, not quite as young as you once thought.  Well I might just have reached on of these points this morning.  Let me set the scene.  I live above the main flood plain for Leicester which floods from time to time.  So as I’m on a bit of a photo bender at the moment I thought wouldn’t it be a great idea to record the flooding.

So far so good.   However, as I was wading through the cold water I suddenly realised that one of my socks in my wellies had come off and I was in fact walking through the water in a bare foot as wellies have virtually no insulating properties.  Now in the past I would have shrugged this off but today I suddenly felt a cold shudder running through my body.  For the first time I thought to myself… “..why the hell am I doing this?…”   In the past I have happily stood at the bottom of a dock slowly sinking into the mud to take photos of eider duck in the middle of one of the coldest January’s in recent history and I didn’t feel the cold.  Today I did.  I didn’t stop but after this every step made me feel colder and colder.   Oh the joys of getting old!

Simon Marchini 

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Who are you?

Well I have been doing battle with this face for around a week and I have yet to produce anything that is a good likeness. I suppose this is the closest yet but still it is not right. I have been working on this drawing, on and off, for the best part of four hours and still I can’t get it right. I think I’ll have to sleep on it, figuratively not actually, and see where I go from in the morning.

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Battling with the technology

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Inspired by the tele

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I was feeling complicated

Just trying different things when using Brushes – I’m still having difficulty getting a real likeness whilst using Brushes – so this is just a man.

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Waves

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