Philip Jupitus…circa?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Guthlac

Just kicking back and watching QI on Dave, where else? And Philip Jupitus is one of the guest so I just knocked out this quick characture…don’t know when the show was recorded though.

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Sherlock … initial thoughts

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Guthlac
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Irene Adler

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Guthlac

I have had an idea inspired by the new series of Sherlock and this means I have to work out a number of separate problems before the idea can converted into a real life drawing. This is a sketch from part of this process…expect many more in the coming days. That is, of course, if I go off the idea altogether – not unknown.

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Lonely man of the night watch

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guthlac
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Profile

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guthlac
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Intense Man

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guthlac
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Flickr: Nikolai Lockertsen’s Photostream

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guthlac
One o the grat joys of the iPad is that you can spend (waste?) your time wondering through the highways and byways of the social networks to find gems like this.  It puts my attempts at making art on the iPad in its place…still got to start somewhere.

Also check out this video on YouTube:

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Angry Man

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guthlac
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Steve McQueen

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Guthlac

One of the most powerful contemporary artworks I have seen was produced by McQueen, a Turner prize winning artist and film maker. Queen and Country is a set of UK stamps with the photographs of military personnel who had died in Iraq. I found this portrait of McQueen some time ago and it had a great impact on me. I believe the photographer took it at Cannes, where McQueen was promoting a film and if my memory serves me well it was a bit of a rush job but nonetheless McQueen came across as a larger than life character.

So I have had this bubbling in the back of my mind for some time and now I have produced my take on the portrait again using Brushes but this time in a much looser fashion. I think it is effective and I feel happier with this than the other paintings I have made over the last few days.

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Same person, different points of view

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Guthlac

Over the past couple of days I have been driving myself mad by looking at other artists work with the iPad and I think these two images explain, in part, why that is. They are based on the same person but with quite differing results and I think it is clear which was made on the iPad using brushes. (just in case it is not it is the one on the left)

Now I like the brushes painting but it doesn’t have accuracy of the drawing made on paper using graphite which is what I am striving for. Of course in a great part this comparison is fatuous for a whole lot of reasons but I think it does show that when I use Brushes I still have a steep learning curve to negotiate. However, on the other hand perhaps this is really the wrong way to go and I should forget other artists work and just develop my own style and embrace that. Who knows how I will resolve this question?

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