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Project LV One – Day 201 – Opening old wounds

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Guthlac

It was the summer of love, the summer of power and fear it was 1984.  Over dramatic I know but for many people living in the Britain 1984 was the year everything changed.  I was brought up in a mining … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 200 – Unleashing my inner Vogue

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Guthlac

Yesterday existentialism today Vogue – I shop therefore I am.  I guess that sums up my approach to art – lack of any sense of direction – so be it. Yesterday was my weekly art class and things went better … 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 198 – Black and White

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Guthlac

There was a time, perhaps it is still prevalent, when glue sniffing was a bag concern.  I never understood this as I found the fumes that glue gave off only gave me a head ache.  It is much the same … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 196 – Soft Pastels

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Guthlac

I really can’t think what to write today…so if you haven’t got anything to say then say nothing.

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Project LV One – Day 192 – Mushrooms

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Guthlac

…Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you… That is how I feel about these drawings I made of mushrooms I made at my art class this morning.  The quick sketch I made seemed to have more life than … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 191 – Lines

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Guthlac

Sunday afternoon and what to do?  I know what I’ll make a sketch of a John Singer Sargent portrait painting.  The intention was to make the sketch using only straight lines.  I just about managed that.  

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Project LV One – Day 189 – When things go wrong they go wrong…

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Guthlac

The title sounds far more dramatic than things actually were but as you can see I somewhat screwed up the proportions of this life drawing I was making this morning.  I have written before about internal contradictions in any drawing … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 188 – Faces of Leicester No. 1

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Guthlac

So this is the finished drawing – quite pleased with it.  It is also the end of another book in the Project LV One series.  It is all down hill from here as there is less than 6 months to … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 188 – Faces, Sharpie and Pierre Noir

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Guthlac

There are number of reasons why I have decided to make a series of portrait drawings which I’m still coming to terms with.  So here are the first in the series which I’m thinking of calling The Faces of Leicester. … Continue reading →

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