Big brother is watching you

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Guthlac

This drawing didn’t turn out the way I had hoped. Nonetheless it is still an effective effort. As k progress I think the drawings are getting physically and emotionally darker. I wonder where this will take me?

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Article: iPhone 4 set to rule Flickr in the next few months

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Guthlac
It seems that iphoneography is even more popular than I thought.

iPhone 4 set to rule Flickr in the next few months
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/iphone-set-to-rule-flickr-in-the-next-few-months/

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Talk is over

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I did it. I presented my work and got polite applause – I have no idea what other people thought – well actually that’s not entirely true – it was a strangely rewarding experience and has actually inspired me to work again in photography. Will I ? Not sure but it is certainly something to think about.

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I’m on line at:

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

www.simonmarchini.co.uk

I hope you enjoy

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RPS East Midland Talk ((tags; RPS, photography,presentation,talk))

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I finally found the Aura Centre at Newark. Really nice facilities and I’m starting to feel really nervous – just how will the talk go? Only time will tell.

I’m on line at:

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

www.simonmarchini.co.uk

I hope you enjoy

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Morpheus

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I suppose it was always going to happen – yes I watched the original Matrix movie or at least part of it, tonight and I had to make a drawing of Morpheus. I think the treatment I have made in post production on the iPad has made it into a really great sketch.

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Mr Anderson

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Guthlac

Last night I finally got around to watching the matrix revolution, an utter waste of money and demonstrates that an awful lot of money cannot save a movie without any real purpose other than to make lots of money. According to Wiki the Matrix Trilogy grossed worldwide $1.6 billion for a total $300 million production cost. Guess I am in the minority.

I am sure there are many people out there who disagree with me and good luck to them. I just found the movie really boring. Thankfully I was watching it on Sky + so was able to fast forward through much of the movie.

Anyway, the reason why I was able to fast forward through the movie was that I had paused the action to make a couple of sketches of Mr Anderson and agent Smith. They were just a bit of fun and I thought nothing more of them. This morning, however, I had a brainwave or brain fart whichever suits you. What if I used brushes to combine the two sketches? Is that possible? Well the final image below shows the result and I think they work together really well. It has a real comic book feel to it and an interesting expansion as to what I can achieve using the iPad. It does open some interesting questions to exactly how these would be classified are the ‘real’ art or digital or both. I really don’t care I just like the result.

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Converting Spacial into Linear

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I’ve started to put the presentation together for Sunday’s meeting. This spray/mind map-ish diagram is the start of the process. I find that I understand concepts much better like this as I have difficult assimilating information when presented in a liner fashion – especially when presented in long rambling paragraphs. Give me the bullet point any day – guess who wasn’t an English major at university.

Anyway what to call the presentation? I first came up with the idea 12 months. This was to show how my photography has changed over the last 12 months. Then having run through this process I realised that this needs slight tweaking . So the current title is:

12 Months: Photographer to Digital Artist

This may well change.

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Trinity

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Guthlac

I sat down last night to start to watch the highly disappointing The Matrix Reloaded with one thing in mind – find an image I can draw. Within the first five minutes Trinity was in action and the image I wanted just popped out. This took me about 20 minutes to sketch and by the time I had caught up with the rest of the film I had lost interest. One further thing – I seem to becoming more and more attracted to chiaroscuro as well as creating drawings that wouldn’t look out of place in a comic book. I wonder why that is?

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Iron Age, Art and Photography

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Guthlac

It’s been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway – this is real frustrating but it is part of life’s rich tapestry well at least that is what I keep telling myself.

On top of this I have started to prepare the presentation I am going make on Sunday about my recent photographic practice – in short iphoneography – I want to get it finished by tomorrow and I have a few ideas which I will firm up and hopefully make into some coherent presentation for Sunday.

The final thing that is floating through my mind is my historical research project. This year I am concentrating on the iron age and how this fits into the project as a whole. There are so many things I could pursue but I have decided to take a little slower this year – after all I am doing this for my own satisfaction and so it doesn’t have deadline. Currently I am reading ‘The Prehistory of the East Midlands Claylands’ – a real page turner ! Actually I is very interesting if a little dry.

On top of this I am making simple sketches such as this of Jim Broadbent. I made a similar sketch a few months ago and the difference is striking. The previous sketch was a good likeness but didn’t have the confidence of technique that one has. This one is looser and I think much more interesting for that. I have not striven for an exact likeness but just tried to enjoyed producing the drawing. I think it works.

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Melton portraiture class

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Guthlac

Each Monday I drive over to Melton for a portrait course. A few weeks ago I published my first drawing and this is my latest. I think I can detect significant improvement – let’s hope it continues.

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