The Great Canvas Project – Part 2

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Guthlac

So the next thing in the plan is to just warm drawing a nude woman. I have no idea what pose the tutor will select so the only thing I can do is warm drawing a generic nude woman pose. This is the warm and so should be treated as nothing more than that.

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Otto Magus

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Guthlac
I came across this artist on Flickr and I found his work really quite bizarre and at the same time interesting.

I found him at the Art in the UK group page – well worth checking out.

Simon Marchini 

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The Big Canvas – Part 1 – oh an iTunes stinks

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Guthlac
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Well I have just completed part 1 of the Big Canvas project – paint the canvas background.   I was initially going to roller the whole canvas a very light blue but when I saw how this was working out I thought that was actually better.  By the way it isn’t anything like this blue in real life and there are hints of brown/red as well which were not picked up by the iPhone camera.

Now for today’s Apple related moan. As you may be aware I have moved from Windows to Apple – however the circumstances of this move meant that I wasn’t able to do it in an orderly fashion and of course somethings got lost – one of those was some of the music I had bought off of iTunes.  No problem as you can download all your previous purchase off of iTunes – so I thought.  Well it seems that iTunes hasn’t got one particular album which I bought from them listed and so I can’t do that.  I haven’t got time this morning to sort this out so I am a bit screwed apart from the fact I have most of my songs on my trusty old iPod.  So this is a way around things but why hasn’t iTunes recorded all the albums I have bought from them??

Simon Marchini 

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The Thick Of It (bbc.co.uk)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Guthlac
Oh I just can’t wait.

The Thick Of It
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/37/The-Thick-of-It.html

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Measuring Progress

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac
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Over the past few months I have posted on this subject a number of times a and I don’t know if a I have still got any answers as to whether I have made progress because I am not sure I know where I am going with my art at the moment.  However, setting this existential problem aside, I have been reexamining some of the paintings that I have made at the art class and I have been pleasantly surprised with what I found.  

None of them are masterpieces but I suspect I have now finally worked out why that might be.  First, this collection of paintings are literally the first I have ever made starting in the top left hand corner; second, and this is probably the most important, I have finally put the works into their rightful context, that is they are, at best, painted sketches.  up until quite recently I have thought that I should be producing completed works in the time provided – for me an impossibility.

So given these qualifications I am quite pleased with me work.  Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the class this autumn so I have decided to go out with a bit of a bang, I have bought a canvas which is 40inches by 32 inches which will be the largest painting I have ever made.   I suspect I will need to take a deep breath and jump.  I just hope I am not a blubbering wreck by the end of the class tomorrow.

Simon Marchini 

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Watercolour

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac

I’ve been messing about with watercolour and I think I’m starting to get some interesting results. The two images are a before and after and give me ideas on what could be achieved. It also gives me an idea as to what I need to do to improve.

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The things we do on flights

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac
I suppose this is one way to pass the time away on a flight.

Simon Marchini 

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Realistic Ballpoint Pen Drawings – Going viral and what about the copyright?

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac
This morning I had two more post from different blog sites mentioning the incredible work of Samuel Silva – here is one of them.   Again, one can only marvel at the skill level required, for me it is the skin tones – how on earth did he managed to do that?   However, there is another aspect of all this that seems to have been brushed aside – copyright violation.   Now Mr Silva may have taken the photos that most of these drawings were based on but at least one, Scarlet Johansson from the film Girl with a Pearl earring, is copyright and so did Mr Silva get permission to reproduce it?

Of course this is a trivial matter in this circumstance because I am sure the film company wouldn’t  be too bothered about the publicity.  But what if Mr Silva then sells the work for a considerable amount of money then what?   How much royalty/fees would he pay to the film company?  I am sure that he has thought about this, as he appears to be a lawyer.  

I guess this wouldn’t really be a problem in most circumstances as photographs tend to be the starting point for any art work or the final art work doesn’t have a sufficient likeness to be considered a copy of the original.   But in this case this is the USP  of the work and so Mr Silva could land himself in a whole lot bother – should copyright lawyers come sniffing around.

Or maybe not – however, it is a point worth considering.

Realistic Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Samuel Silva
http://machoarts.com/ballpoint-pen-drawing-by-samuel-silva

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Nikon announces Android-powered Coolpix S800c smart Wi-Fi superzoom: Digital Photography Review

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac

The other day I posted a spoof about the iPhone 5 being an SLR – well perhaps it wasn’t that much of a spoof after all.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/08/22/Nikon-announces-gingerbread-Android-p…

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Science doesn’t count in North Carolina

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Guthlac

I’m not sure how accurate this story might be but if it is true then it is a poor indictment of the state of local politics in the USA. Thank good we have much more enlightened local politics (ha ha) in the UK!

http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/north-carolina-enshrine-climat…

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