Simon's Blog

Some kind a misunderstandin’

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Guthlac

Posted in Art, Gardens, ink drawing, Photography, Spring | Tagged Female Nude, garden, nude, Nude Woman, photography, sketch, sketchbook, Tulips, woman | 2 Comments

From the bright side of the road…

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Guthlac

What a wonderful thing it is to live in England in spring. This is not meant to be some form of jingoistic statement but rather a reflection of just how the weather changes so quickly on these damp and green islands of off the coast of Europe – perhaps that explains so much about our love/hate relationship with our nearest neighbours.

On Tuesday I was at a rather grey and damp Chatsworth – not quite raining but a dampness in the air. Two days later all that is gone and I was in south Warwickshire dashing for cover under a unremitting sun.

Today we have another change to a fresher day – bright sun but a welcoming breeze. This time just messing around in the garden at home.

Sometimes we have to be reminded just how lucky we are.

Posted in Gardens, Macro, Photography, Spring | Tagged Baddesley Clinton, bulbs, Chatsworth House, Flowers, garden, hot sun, photography, Spring, Tulips | Leave a comment

Putting the M in Met Rocity….

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Guthlac

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Is he going to be fit…?

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Guthlac

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Paradise go long…

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Guthlac

If it feels like paradise…

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Standing Still…

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Guthlac

The morning after the night before…

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Hello Outlook Followers

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Guthlac

I’ve been absent from blogging for a while but it seems that this silly little blog is still getting the attention from the Outlook followers. Those of you who might have suffered from such a problem what appears to happen is that strange followers start to pop up with an @Outlook.COM email address. The latest was this morning – straitnfallont@outlook.com – now of course it might be that this is a genuine follower but I somehow doubt it as every other one of these followers I have tried to ID have disappeared as quickly as they have popped up. I have brought this to WordPress’s attention but have had little success in stopping them – this doesn’t fill me with confidence should I wish to start paying for this site – perhaps that is the reason why WordPress has shown an inability to control the outlook.com outbreak – I don’t pay! However a quick search of the WordPress forums shows that this isn’t the case and I am not alone.

Still I guess we should be glad that these spammers or whatever they are are open about their activities unlike Facebook, Google et al

Posted in Apple Pencil, Art, Digital Painting, drawing, monochrome, Procreate | Tagged Apple Pencil, Cara Delevingne, Digital Painting, John Singer Sargent, Outlook Spammers, portrait, Procreate, sketch, woman, Wonder Woman, Wordpress | 6 Comments

Wellington Steamboat…

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Guthlac

Creative constipation …

Posted in Art, art class, drawing, Photography, Spring | Tagged art class, City of Leicester, drawing, Leicester Print Workshop, Nude Woman, painting, portrait, sketch, woman | Leave a comment

That was the week that was…

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Guthlac

Well I think we have survived the worst winter storm in a while…only thing is where I live it was really that much of endurance – thank goodness! The news was full of deep snow drifts, communities cut off and people trapped for hours in their vehicles on motorways. All great and good for the news journalists but that wasn’t my experience of the beast from the east. Instead of apocalypse we had some snow and it was bloody cold but that was it. So for what it is worth here is my photographic record of when the beast visited:

I just hope that is the end of things and we can get on with our small uneventful lives. As I write this the birds are singing outside – a sure sign that spring is well on the way.