Well according to the Central Network there 502 customers effected by the power cut which represents 90% of faults on their system. The thing that is so frustrating is that in the near distance there are street lights and house lights on. Grrgh.
I’m on line at: www.flickr.com/photos/guthlacDeep joy we’ve just suffered a power cut! I am reduced to blogging and surfing on the iPhone at 3G speeds. Oh the injustice of it all.
I’m on line at: www.flickr.com/photos/guthlacThe more galleries and art I see the more my head has been befuddled by the different groups, styles and titles, Cubism or post expressionism or pointillism etc ( as you can see I have been looking at at lot of late 19th and early 20th century art recently). Now the hard systems part of my make up has had enough of all this and so I have sat down this evening to try and draw up some rudimentary chart which fits all these together and I have succeed in as far as any chart can really capture something as nebulous as influences and loose alliances. Of course the truth is that you have to spend years studying art history to really understand all the differences and to be quite honest I’m not interested in that. No what I want is some straightforward chart to help me through the maze and I think I have achieved that – sort off. Sent from my iPad
I’ve been trying to understand the female face over the past few days- this is not some sort of mars and Venus experiment but rather to better understand how to improve my drawings. The problem for me has been trying to draw Nicole Kidman from the front. She has a a very pronounced jaw line which every time I tried to capture resulted in her face becoming very masculine. Now Ms Kidman may be many things but masculine is not one of them. So why were my drawings producing such results?
In an effort to answer this I traced Ms Kidman’s outline in brushes and examined the result. The most striking thing for me was to notice the relationship between the jaw line and the eyes. In many of my drawings the eyes were too hard and perhaps not big enough. The result of this was to make the jaw line more pronounced Nd therefore more masculine. Well that is my analysis at the moment and I will only tell if this is true by applying the lessons and seeing what come out. One final thing is this drawing. It is a very simple traced outline of Ms Kidman’s face which I have shaded and turned into an original image which doesn’t look much like the original. So is this plagiarism or is it an original art work? I think it is the latter, I would say that wouldn’t I, but the reason for this is that whilst has the outline of well known face the resultant work bares nor resemblance to the original photo. In short I have tried to make a likeness of the person rather than the photo of the person. Not sure what this all means but it is my excuse and I’m stick in to it.
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A wonderful little exhibition interesting pastel work, something I’m interested in at the moment. Small, compact and will leave you with an urge to work with pastels or is that just me? Probably.
This actually looks better than the real drawing but it just didn’t work. More swearing and stamping of feet on h part. However, there is only one thing to do is start all over again. Oh dear.
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This is the start of yet another drawing of Nicole Kidman. I have to keep reminding myself why I am persisting with drawing just one person all week. Well I think the reason is that I want to produce the best drawing I can in a week and I have got it in my head that the longer I look at some one’s picture the better the chance I have to make this drawing. The problem with this is that the best likeness I produced was rig at the start of the process so I’m not sure where all this is going. Anyway, here’s the start of a drawing that doesn’t look like Kidman’s been too photoshoped. Wonder how this will turn out?
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Just watched part 1 of the TV movies Apocalypse made in 2005. The date is important because FEMA and the general Federal Govt was still seen as fit for purpose before Katrina showed otherwise. Anyway, this isn’t why the movies is so so bad. It’s the Wooden acting, shockingly bad CGI and a script with more holes in it than a string vest that combine to make this rubbish beyond belief. However, because of all these corny problems I love the movie – I don’t know why but I am a sucker for such trash. Well I can’t weight for part 2. As if to complement this the following movie is Megafault a truly awful film which I believe was Brittany Murphy’s swan song ( I do hope I’m wrong about that). Now this is a real turkey – can’t wait. Sent from my iPad
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This just sums up Apple’s attitude. Sent from my iPadThis started off with thing in mind and then moved away from that. To start off with I was trying to make a drawing of Nicole Kidman but as things went on I decided to drop this in favour of a drawing inspired by Nicole Kidman. I suppose in part is a lack of technical expertise but also in part a realisation that was I was producing had merit in it’s own right. Now what that merit might be is for others to comment on. I enjoyed creating this and I think it is interesting and that is all that matters to me.
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