Hillary Clinton’s nose. I can’t find it

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Guthlac

Well I’m back on portraits and I am trying to make a likeness of the former first lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This is part of an idea I am working on which, if it is like many of my other ideas, will never get finished! Be that as it may, the first part is that I need to make a portrait of the afore mentioned Secretary of State. I have managed a reasonable first stab at it apart from the nose – I just don’t seem to be able to get nose right. This is really frustrating – I know I will eventually find the nose but at the moment it is nowhere to be found. Wow when did that happen? I feel confident that I will find a solution, not I will never find a solution but rather it is only a matter of time. Now that is progress.

In the meantime I will search forlornly for Ms Clinton’s nose – now I bet that’s not to be found in the Wikileaks documents.

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Brushes Painting – the other Christmas image

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Guthlac

This is the Christmas bird I posted the other day without any additions from Photoshop. Silly, I know, but really quite endearing.

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Brushes Painting – the strange bluebird

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Guthlac

I find myself doodling in Brushes at the moment. It is so relaxing and very appealing.

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Experimenting with Linda

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Guthlac

Over the past few months I have drawn Linda many times.   Today I have revisited this face for a new type of art work for me – painting.   I would love to write that this part of some great plan but it wasn’t.  I wanted some large oil pastels and bought a set not realising what I could do with them.  However, once I read the instructions, a first, I discovered that these pastels were water soluble so I decided to try this out.  Enter Linda.

I first sketched out an outline – which took about 15 minutes.  I mention this because when I last drew Linda I never really managed to  a good likeness whereas now I can do this within 15 minutes.  That is a measure of the progress I have made over the past few months.

So to the pastels.  I was a bit tentative at first working from the light to dark.  As my confidence grew I started to apply more pressure.  Once I had finished it was an interesting drawing but only stage two.  Now for the real test – applying water.   Again I was really nervous to start off but slowly I got a bit of feel for what I was doing and slowly the painting began to take shape.

Overall I am really pleased with the result.  Now I am not saying it is any good but it does give a lot things to think about when I do it again.   This is the only way to learn and improve your work just keep working and reflecting.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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A bit of Christmas silliness

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Guthlac
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Brushes Painting

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Guthlac

Playing around with brushes again!

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Sad owl

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Guthlac
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Another Frozen Image

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Guthlac
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Sitting down and clear a bit of a back log – well that is the plan however I want to do some drawing so I might finish the backlog today or ever!   Mentioning drawing I have found that I am starting to move away from straight recreation of the scene to a more subtle approach.  I am now looking for something that I find interesting rather than trying to conform to other people’s rules.  In short I suspect many of my new images will never be able to be entered into mainstream competitions as they have been digitally manipulated.   No matter.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Worth the cold

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Guthlac

Well I have started to work on my photos from the past couple of days.  These are part of a side project of tress I hope to mount on a wall in the house.  I am quite happy with how things are developing so perhaps donning all those warm cloths was worth it.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Freezing my wotsits off

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Guthlac
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My word it was cold today – according to the thermometer in the car it was – 4c and this was at lunchtime.  Now I know by Russian standards this is nothing but for me it was still cold.   I drove through the winter wonderland this afternoon and stopped occasionally to take some photographs.  The only problem was that it was so cold it was painful to hold the camera for too long – perhaps I should have put my gloves on!   Anyway, just uploaded the photographs and over the next few days I will start working on them.  Not sure whether I like what I have produced so far – they seem a little chocolate boxish.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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