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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 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 182 – “Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war”

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Guthlac

So I have started the painting of my life! (Hyperbole accepted).  This is the first time I have worked on a large canvas (by my standards) and I’m enjoying the elbow room that this gives me.  This first phase is … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 180 – A bibbly bobbly day

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Guthlac

We all have them I know but it just seems that the older you get the more frequent are the bibbly bobbly days.  If you went to your Doctor and said that you were feeling bibbly bobbly he/she would no … 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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Project LV One – Day 176 – Can’t think of a title

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Guthlac

My mind has drawn a blank this morning for any sort of title to this entry – woman’s bottom perhaps?   Well maybe but one thing for sure is that if you are trying to make a delicate life drawing … 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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