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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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Project LV One – Day 186 – Confused…

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Guthlac

So one day into the new Yosemite Sam upgrade little things are starting to annoy.  The first thing is that one of the little functions I used to use on Safari has disappeared.  I suspect that it is still there … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 186 – Welcome to Yosemite Sam

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Guthlac

  So I’ve gone and done – I’ve updated to Yosemite.  So far so good the only problem I’ve encountered was with the Blurb Book program but I just had to down load the Javascript update (not sure why this … Continue reading →

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