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Project LV One – Day 269 – Just Occationally

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Guthlac

Every now and then the stars align and I mange to produce something I feel really pleased with – today was one of those days.  To make things even more unlikely I made this piece in my art class.  Strange … Continue reading →

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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 241 – Painting

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the joys of being a relative neophyte, if you can be such a thing – neophyte is probably a binary state but I digress, when it comes to art is that you just take things as they are. … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 223 – Critical Stage

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Guthlac

I love listening to artists describing their art work at a ‘…critical stage…’ – I wish I knew when such stages have been reached in advance.  I usually discover that I have just passed a critical stage when things go … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 222 – Doing Battle Once More…

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Guthlac

Painting is really really painful – so why the hell do I do it?   Well anyone who has been bitten by the bug knows the answer to this – I just have to.  It is the same as any … Continue reading →

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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 184 & 185 – Considering the Female Form

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Guthlac

I was going to write a long piece about the female form and it’s depiction in paintings but then as was writing it I didn’t know anything like enough about the subject to come to any formed conclusions on the … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 183 – End of another day with Mother Earth

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Guthlac

Anyone who doesn’t know anything about painting will find the statement that painting is exhausting somewhat incongerous if not totally self absorbent.  Whoever it is true – painting is exhausting  and I have reached the end of another day which … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 183 – Has it really been 6 months?

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Guthlac

They say a week is a long time in politics well for me the last 6 months seem to have been an eternity but here we are at the half way point of the Project LV One project.  To demonstrate … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 176 – Some Frames

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Guthlac

Busy busy afternoon – the new frames arrived so out with the varnish and get the paintings framed – really quite satisfying.

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