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Project LV One – Day 171 – Presenting Mr and Mrs Grey

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Guthlac

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a Grey project.  It has been a fascinating project that has really got me to think about painting seriously.  I have no idea where these paintings will stand in my … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 170 – Over Ambitious

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the many walls that I am hitting as I start this painting odyssey is being far too ambitious.  For years I have been able to create really moody images using photography and photoshop.  So naturally I’m attracted to such … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 169 – Internal Contradictions

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Guthlac

I have learnt the hard way that there reaches a point in the life of any painting that the internal contradictions are greater than the paintings ability to recover.  When this point is reached then there is only one thing … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 167 – Old Grey Man

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Guthlac

Forms are being completed, interviews booked – oh the joys of getting your name back on the system with the right documentation! Still it is my fault so I have no one else to blame but myself. As a means … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 157 – The Point of No return

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Guthlac

It has been my experience that a point is reached with any painting that the internal contradictions are so great that you either say enough is enough or you scrap the whole thing and start again.  I feel I have … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 156 – Hair…another step towards the 10,000 hours

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Guthlac

Good old Malcolm Gladwell – he really has set me on my way.  For those of you who don’t know Mr Gladwell was the author of Outliers: The story of success in which he puts forward the idea of you … 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 153 – the eye’s have it

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Guthlac

It has been a hard road to get these eyes somewhere near right but I think I am getting there.  

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Project LV One – Day 151 – Tilt

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Guthlac

One of the reassuring things about not being the first in something is that you know many have been there before.  So it is with painting…I know that many painters before me have reached a point when they realise that … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 150 – part 2

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Guthlac

Enough painting for one day – now time to think where to take things

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