Tag Archives: Diego Velazquez

Hibernation

Posted on January 21, 2018 by

Still got a bit of a Diego Velázquez vibe going on at the moment…only just a little though.   Mid January is a real bummer.   All around where I live there are storms, blizzards and frosts yet here we seem to get … Continue reading →

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Today Mathew I’ll be called….

Posted on January 15, 2018 by

  If it’s Monday then it is time for my painting class.   This was my version of Portrait of Juan from Pareja by Diego Velázquez.   As a painting exercise I’m quite pleased with the result but as a copy of the original?  … Continue reading →

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Fond memories

Posted on October 21, 2016 by

From time to time I clear out old files on my iPad and today I came across a load of paintings I made back in 2013 on my iPad using the Brushes app.   Amongst the acres of experimental paintings … Continue reading →

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What is going on?

Posted on December 28, 2015 by

  Some of the sketches and paintings I made over the Christmas period.

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Words word words….

Posted on May 31, 2015 by

It is that time of year when I start to pull together my previous year’s yearbook – this will be the sixth which means that I have been blogging for at least that length of time.  This time I have … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 113 – Scribbles, Doodles and Sketches

Posted on August 14, 2014 by

I once a day in hospital and in the bed next to me was an art lecturer and artist from a local art school.  We started to talk and I mentioned that I liked to draw and sketch which he … Continue reading →

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More looking at Diego Velazquez

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

I’ve now decided that Velazquez has risen up my list of greatest painters. I know this is a ridiculous thing to do but in truth we all do it. We can’t help it, it’s what makes us humans – making … Continue reading →

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After Velazquez – Day 2

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

Day 2 of this little painting. I had meant to work on this some more last night but I left my iPad at a friends so wasn’t able to do so. In a funny way this helped because I was … Continue reading →

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