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Project LV One – Day 121 – Part 2

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Guthlac

What a wonderful morning this has been – I’ve finally started to use my new easel to make paintings.   The painting is far from complete but I just feel pumped with the results I have so far.  I suspect … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 79 & 80 – It’s complicated

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Guthlac

I’m not entirely sure where yesterday went but I missed it.  Most of the afternoon was spent painting and then it just got away from me.  Anyway today I walked around the new Cathedral Square at Leicester and I have … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 65 – Crises of Confidence

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Guthlac

 Art Class Paintings I blame Stephen Fry.   If it wasn’t for the fact that I have been listening once again to his excellent, if a bit Forest Gumpesque, second instalment of his autobiography I may well not have put … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 51 – I love to make faces

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Guthlac

I had a strange juxta position yesterday of what art I love to make.   In the evening a young friend of mine asked me about a portrait she was making – I immediately started to explain the faults I … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 17 – thinking about last year

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Guthlac

Choices and decisions.  This is the whole point of life – we all make choices whether we want to or not – our lives are resplendent in them and the we have to learn to live with the results.  One … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 9

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Guthlac

Well it only took me just over a week to not post a daily update but the truth is I’m going through a bit of a crises.  I started my latest art class and whilst it a while since undertook … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 4

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Guthlac

It was a hard and at times quite warm day in the studio today – often it seemed that the model had the best idea – lying back and going to sleep.   The whole day was surprisingly successful and the … Continue reading →

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Summer Son

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Guthlac

I have no idea where this came from…I just sat down this afternoon and started to draw – before I knew where I was she had appeared on the page.  Exactly what the painting is about is as much a … Continue reading →

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Crossroads – fastcar

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Guthlac

I seem to be finally attacking my little sketches with a bit of colour – although this one is starting to look rather disturbing – not such a bad thing – it is almost an expressionistic work – although it … Continue reading →

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Trapped in the past I can’t seem to move on

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Guthlac

  Another hard slog to with the Capt. America painting but I think it was worth it.  Many more sessions like that before this is finished.  Perhaps the most interesting thing about all this is that since I started this … Continue reading →

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