Tag Archives: Digital Painting

Project LV One – Day 245 – Looking Back and Forward

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Guthlac

I think it is far to say that my portrait painting has hit a bit of a crises – somewhere along the way I seem to have lost my sense of adventure and reversed into something I am not and … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 199 – Existentialist crises of confidence

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Guthlac

Thanks to IOS 8 my stylus doesn’t seem to want to work anymore with Brushes, the rather aging graphics app I use on my iPad.  Now I haven’t used brushes in months so I have had to learn how to … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 154 – Variations on what is ‘real’

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Guthlac

yesterday I had an interesting conversation on what is real in art – specifically when does one art work morph into another.  This was brought about when we were discussing the validity of images made from old slides and neg’s … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 131 – Icons

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Guthlac

I’m not sure why these two images go together but I somehow feel they do.  I guess tomorrow I may well have a different view – such is life.

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Project LV One – Day 101 – Tonal Range and a Frog

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Guthlac

Life is a whole series of unintended consequences or is that just me?   Continuing my Stephen Fry theme I decided to try once more make a pastel drawing of Mr Fry only it turned out to be a Conté sanguine … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 78 – Back to Brushes

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Guthlac

Trouble with making a painting is that it pulls you apart – well that is how I feel.   This was made using Brushes on the iPad and at one level I really like it – yet at another I … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 17 – thinking about last year

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Guthlac

Choices and decisions.  This is the whole point of life – we all make choices whether we want to or not – our lives are resplendent in them and the we have to learn to live with the results.  One … Continue reading →

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So just what is a photograph any more?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Guthlac

I no longer have a clue what a photograph is anymore…I really don’t.  In the past it was fairly straight forward and usually had something to do with film or other media used to capture the image.  Nowadays that distinction … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 14

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Guthlac

Well I think this is it and at the moment I feel really happy with what I have done which is unusual as most of the time after I have finished I somewhat doubt what I have done.    

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Measuring Progress – Anne Hathaway

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Guthlac

Another hour or so working on the Anne Hathaway portrait and time to take stoke.   To help this process along here is the current portrait I’m working compared to one I made last year.  The first thing to say … Continue reading →

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