Tag Archives: drawing

With age comes wisdom…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Guthlac

I have no idea whether this is a coined saying or something I have made up. I am starting to realise that the only thing you get as you get old are aches and pains where you never thought there were any. However, experience does appear to have a b… Continue reading →

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Pregnant Women

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Guthlac

I am very interested in the creative process – just how did the artist come to the answers he/she has? I am also very insecure about loosing ‘good’ drawings by later attempts to alter/improve/change the drawing. So with this in mind I have made a … Continue reading →

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Searching for the perfect proportions

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Guthlac

What an interesting evening I have just had. I have been researching the perfect body proportions. Perfect is a very loaded term I know so perhaps I should say I was looking for examples of male and female bodies that meet the classic western art … Continue reading →

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The silence and the fury

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Guthlac

Oh how I wish I had the photograph that this drawing is based on. It is from a series of photographs that Paul Fusco made in 2000 at a protest in New York city over the death of a suspect shot by the NYPD. It is full of power and outrage and sadne… Continue reading →

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Measuring Progress

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Guthlac

So how do you measure progress with art? This is a question that Ph.D. theses can be written, in fact I can imagine some prospective don beavering away into the small hours high in a dreaming spire some where doing just this. This digression doesn… Continue reading →

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Oh hum – so much for making a realistic likeness

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Guthlac

I wont go into all the boring details as to why this drawing is not a likeness. However, I really like this, as much as I do any drawing the day of production. I gave up half way through the process trying to make it a likeness and decided to conc… Continue reading →

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Bad foot and Cate Blanchett

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Guthlac

Well as one door opens another closes. Over the past few weeks I have been slightly under the weather which has been diagnosed as ‘a virus’. This, I think, is Doctor speak for slightly worse than ‘a bug’ but will sort itself out over time – which … Continue reading →

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Elephant

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Guthlac

I have started to move out of the pencil drawing to more expressive colour – in this case oil pastels and Promarker. These are bold first steps – whether they are in the right direction only time will tell. Simon Marchini LRPSWeb: http://WWW.simon… Continue reading →

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A lot of Fry and a bit of Laurie

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Guthlac

Well I have just finished listening to the latest instalment of Stephen Fry’s autobiography. What a bastard! This is no reflection on the audio book – more of this in a moment. No the reason for the profanity is because he ends the book on a cliff… Continue reading →

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Better Proportions

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Guthlac

More blood sweet and just a few tears. Ok so this was over the top but I did go back and try again to get the proportions right and thankfully the next drawing was whole lot better. Far from perfect but much better. All in all not a bad days work…. Continue reading →

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