Battling real emotions

I have set my self a new goal, I suppose you could call it a sort of a New Years resolution, only it is not. I am going to make a drawing of my father. Now there are a number of problems with this. The first is that he died nearly four years ago, which is a bit of a restriction but not the biggest problem I will have to over come. The biggest problem is all the emotional baggage you bring when drawing someone you knew really well who is no longer alive (that's putting it mildly!)

So how to approach this? Well I have no real time constraints so I will make numerous preliminary sketches just to try and get the right look and feel. I am working from a series of photographs I made back in the mid 1970s when I had my first camera. Now here is another emotional baggage moment as my father is the same age in the photo as I am now. Again this is an interesting question - what tense do I use? The photo is nearly 35 years old and so I should us the past tense, yet the image is of a person frozen in time so is it is? Or should it be was? I rathe prefer is even though it may not be grammatically.

Using a photograph as a prime source for the work is also interesting. The photograph has no life it just exists where as the art work will always have life and emotion or at least it should have. Perhaps this is one of the a sons why I am less motivated to make photographs at the moment? I am looking for animus rather than lifeless. Who knows.

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Back to serious drawing

Before I start I have been asked to point out that none of the women I have drawn and posted are known to me. They are all based on photographs I have found on the Internet.

So I have moved away from the Madison Avenue style book and back to what I know best - drawing based on observation and more observation. I found that when you spent too much time working out the correct proportions you ended up making drawings that were just not life like. The rules can become more important than what is actually in front of you. This is a bad mistake.

This is not the first attempt I have made to capture this young woman. Yesterday I tried to capture this likeness using a large graphite rod. It didn't work and I ended up producing something that was much more impressionistic. There was nothing wrong with this but it really wasn't what I wanted to do I now realise. So today went back to paper and pencil spent some time looking and measuring and looking some more. Slowly the image emerges but it is a struggle. As I was working on this it struck me that if you had asked me 6 months ago if I could draw I would have answered no. Now I can and I think that is a sign of real progress. It has been hard work but now I feel I am starting to get somewhere. There are still many things I need to work on and improve but as the year is slowly coming to an end I think I can feel very proud of what I have achieved. Let's hope the new year is as rewarding as this has been. Goodness only knows where that will take me.

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Ludmilla - the evil Russian temptress

This is straight out of DC comics or Marvel. It was produced by following one of the style guides in my favourite art book of the moment. Isn't she so evil and Bonesk!

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Corrupting Madison Avenue

Reading further into the Drawing the Head and Figure book I was given at Christmas it is clear that it was designed for designers and artists working in a Madison avenue advertisement agency in the late 50's to come up with some art work for the latest product. Think of Mad Men and you would be about right. Now a days we have Google and it's almost infinite resource of photographs to help inspire the budding copy artist. Back then I am not so sure so you would need rules to help make sure your person looked like a person. In short this is a style book - you want a man and he has to have a chiselled WASP look. The children have to have a Norman Rockwell quality and the women demure and slightly rounded. There is even a section on how a women's nipple will move as she moves her arm towards the ceiling.

Anyway, I have tried some of the simpler exercises and they are really quite fun. However, I have let my 21st century aesthetic intervene and the women has turned into some burnt out Hollywood star who has too much of life's disappointments written large on her face. Nonetheless, it is really great to have every step laid out for you - you want brunette hair then your pencil strokes should be like this and so on. What a wonderful book.

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Prescriptive Drawing - the 1950's way

I am working my way through my figure drawing book - c1950. May how prescriptive it is - take for example drawing the neck and shoulder lines. Here we are shown 11 different angles/types and the anatomy of the women is discussed in some detail for each. Not once is the reader told to look and look and keep looking. Instead it is all about the angle of clavicles and there relationship to sterno mastoids or something like this.

Now this is actually very useful advice and I must admit to have actually learnt a great deal from this. However, and this is a big empire state building type of however, it really sucks the joy out of drawing. An art drawing of a woman should also try and capture her humanity and femininity far more than the how the skin lies over the deltoid muscles. As an exercise in drawing technique this is very useful. As an exercise in capturing the essence of a person it is next to useless. However, call me old fashioned, but I believe you do need to understand much of what this book is talking about. You can then junk it if you wish but at least you will have the information in the first place.

Oh how things have changed in the last 50 years.

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The iPad in 2011

I am not the first person to say this but 2011 could well be the year of the iPad. When the product was first introduced there was still quite a bit of confusion as to how the product would work. 7 months on a lot of companies are starting to develop apps for the iPad. The latest I have downloaded is so that I can record programmer on my sky+ box. This is so incredibly ingenious that it makes you wonder how you never had this in your life before. Getting away from the giddy excitement the really important lesson to learn is that there is a conversion between the different technologies and especially the iPad. I now find I have mine sitting next to me as I watch a programme and when anything interesting comes up, such as '...where have I seen that actor/ress before?...'. I have my trusty iPad on hand to allow me to dive into IMDB or Wiki or google to try and answer the question. As the programme I'm watching can be paused then I don't miss any action. No doubt as the year progresses even more things will start to merge. Makes for an interesting 12 months ahead.

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Drawing the head and figure

I have been given a wonderful book for Christmas called 'Drawing the head and figure'. It is a Haynes manual of how to do this. It breakdown the body into it's individual proportions and then explains how to capture these in a drawing. It is a great text book in it's own right but the real reason I like this book is that it was first published in 1963 - the illustrations are much older and have a 1950s feel to them. I spend half my time working on the exercise and the other half deconstructing the illustrations for their hidden message. If you followed this book to the letter then your drawings would turn out like Hollywood movie posters of the 1950s. Quite brilliant.

I have also decided to try and work on these exercises on the iPad. Over the past few weeks I have found myself neglecting the iPad for real world drawing and I would like to try and redress this.

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When things get away from you...oh and I have a cold

Well it wouldn't be Christmas with out getting a cold and as I write this this Christmas is stacking up as usual.  My wife is stiff suffering from flu like symptoms and I have started to get a cough and splutter.

So It has been back with the sketch book and doodling.  Something drawings worked and some didn't.  That is life I suppose.  The only question which one is which.  I am not sure.  Anyway, if I do come down with a heavy cold then I may not up to writing for a few days.  If this is the case may I wish anyone who comes across this blog all the best for Christmas.
 

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Learning to work with the pen

The more I work with a pen the more confident I get with my ability to obtain something interesting.  It is the old refrain '..the more I practice the better I get and the better I get the more I practice...'  or something like that.   The inability to easily correct any mistakes when using a pen means that you have adopt different approaches.  This in turn leads to different creative opportunities.  The trick, I guess, is trying to work out what these opportunities are and weighing them against their disadvantages.  Much like life.
 

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Doodling and illness

Well thanks to the British education system my wife is suffering from a bad cold.  My son came home the other day with a heavy cold no doubt contracted at his university.   Being young he spent a couple of days feeling sorry for himself and then bounced back.  However, for the people who live in the same house with him it is taking longer and having a effect.   Now I have had a flu jab and this might have protected me from the worst effects.  However, my wife is suffering.

Now here is one of those Mars and Venus questions.  Why are women so crap at illness?  We men are the true professionals.  When we have a cold we devote all our attention to it - none of this carrying regardless - we are ill so that is the only thing that matters - front and centre.  We demand to be cared for and nursed back from death's door.  Women on the other hand have this totally baffling attitude that they must carry on.  They come up with arguments that they have got too many things to do to stop.  These are just incomprehensible to the professional male - when you are ill you are ill - period.  

So I have managed, just, to get my wife to sit down and just do nothing.  Almost impossible but some how I did manage it - perhaps she really is ill?   Anyway, I have had to run around and do things but mainly I have spent time doodling whilst making sure she rests - yes she require constant obs otherwise she would be about 'doing things' .  The doodles can be spilt into two.  The first group are based on characters and photographs I have found on the internet.   With these I have been experimenting with the restrictions that pen and ink place on the doodles.   You have to be precise with the mark you make and any mistake is very difficult to correct.   With this in mind I made the Buzz Light Year and Woody sketches (I'm sure the Disney Corp won't mind but I guess I will find out shortly if they do).  Another interesting thing with these sketches is that the slightest mistake  and you change the whole character of the person - manic Buzz is a case in point.

The second group are based on people I have seen on TV whilst sitting with my wife.   I find myself people watching and missing whole sections of plot and find I have to pause the programme and then go back and watch it again.  However, this is a wonderful source of interesting people to draw or at least sketches and doodles on.
 

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Mark making technology

Before Gwyneth there was woman. This is the first attempt to make a drawing using Letraset promakers. The only thing is I added oil pastels and came up with a whole new way, for me, to make a drawing. However, the key mark making technology in this drawing was the choice of using a pen for the initial outline rather than my more usual pencil. This meant that every Mark I made was permanent and so I had to ensure it was exactly where I wanted it to be. To be honest I was intimidated by this and the initial sketch wasn't as flowing as I would have wanted. However, it does give the drawing a strange 'Dan Dare' look but does highlight the importance of mark making, the technology you use and how you, the artist, reacts to the opportunities and restrictions placed on you.

Still it does mean that she is a stern looking alien female and I think it won't take you too long to realise who I used for the inspiration for this - missing nose anyone?

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The ears are sad...

Having just reread my latest posting I have to say that relying on auto correct on the iPad throws up some wonderful sayings. The latest is '..the ears are sad...'. Now I'm not sure how ears can portray sadness in humans but clearly the drawing some how captures this! Perhaps I should read the stuff I post before I post it but where would the fun be in that?

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Gwyneth

I am still surprised where inspiration comes from. I was watching that excellent movie sliding doors last night and suddenly was inspired to make a quick sketch of Gwyneth Paltrow. The sketch didn't really look too much like her but that wasn't the point. It was the inspiration that was important. As the the film progressed I worked on the sketch using Letraset pro markers to add a little depth and colour.

This morning I couldn't get the sketch out of my head so I decided to create a large drawing from it. This time I used the pro makers mixed with oil pastels to produce Gwyneth. Now she is not. Likeness per si but rather what the actress might have looked like if she hadn't lead such a privileged life. Actually that is not far as whilst the the drawing developed I moved further and further from the actress to someone completely different. My Gwyneth has the sad lost eyes of someone who has faced a hard life whilst at the same time retained her femininity and dignity. The ears are sad but they still are full of life.

So thank you Gwyneth for the inspiration I hope you like the drawing, if you ever see it.

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Sketching with Brushes

There is something really quite fulfilling spending half an hour doodling and sketching with brushes. It is totally inconsequential which makes it so much more rewarding. Life is far too short not to have a bit of fun every now and then. Here is my bit of fun this morning.

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Nude

I have found this photograph of a well round woman on the Internet - this is actually harder than you might think as most nude women tend to be undertaking degrading behaviour. Anyway, I am fascinated by this woman and I am not sure why. The more I draw her the more I realise that I am attracted by her curves and these are leading to a more abstract result.

In This drawing I have used only curved lines. This was a deliberate decision on my part and for a state I couldn't understand why. Then I realised that it may well have been the curves that attracted me. Everything is curved. I have called this series of drawings 'modern women'. I suspect this is a reaction of the depiction of women you see on TV, film and all other media. There seems to be a rejection of what is real in favour of some strange emaciated figure that has no real relationship to the modern world. This is hardly radical, I know, but you can't help what motivates you.

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Curves & Colour

Well I've let myself go and this the result. I've no idea where she came from and I'm sure many art historians can point to the influences and they may be right. What I do know is that she makes sense me.

Having store back and looked at the drawing I think I will remove the face - it doesn't add to the work which is turning into mother earth.

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How real is real?

Day two working on the female form. I have christened this drawing 'Modern Woman'. The idea behind this today was to mKe as realistic drawing of the woman as I could. However what is real? I am not sure now as having spent the day trying to create the most realistic drawing I realise that this is controlled by your technique and the materials you are using. In this case I am using charcoal and try as I might I can't get the control I vet with pencil. I could, of course, use charcoal pencils but I enjoy the tactile feel of charcoal in my hand so I have decided against this.

So how real is she? Well in one sense very real but in Nother not. She certainly isn't a photo real drawing and I am glad of that. I have seen many such drawings and paintings and I always come away thinking why? I think there is a wold world of difference between drWing and photography, both bring something special to the experience but they are not the same.

Is she better than yesterday's attempt? Agin yes and no. In short she has a life of her own - indeed I am referring to her as 'her, rather that it which probably says more about how real anything is.

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A mornings work

Well I spent two hours this ,owning with amply proportioned young women and things are coming along a treat. I am deliberately taking my time to see how that might improve things. So far this is proving to be a worthwhile tactic.

I am using my new easel and this has also proved to be a great success as well. All in all considering everything else that has happened today it could have gone a whole lot worse.

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Wagner and the fat lady

So I am drawing fat ladies today. God that sounds patronising - especially as I am a fat man so am in no position to say anything. Well yes and no. The no because I am fascinated by the folds and curves - perhaps it is very primeval as most fertility goddess would not be considered models for any Milan fashion house yet they were seen as the embodiment of womanhood and renewal.

Anyway, before I disappear into pseuds corner back to the drawing. This part of an expansion of the portraits into full figures. As a first step this isn't top bad. I also find taking a photo helps me see things that I may have missed - such as one of the hands - although I am not so sure!

So to Wagner. I like to listen to classical music whilst working and at the moment Wagner is my composer of choice. The only problem with this is that will always associate him with Hitler and the third reich. Still I am not sure that the valkerye were fat ladies but rather amazonians - but that is another story.

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Breaking news - Hillary Clinton's Nose has been found

Well I managed to make the likeness. It was hard work - this took the best part of two hours to draw - but eventually I have achieved what I set out to do. Well almost - I'm never happy with the exults and no doubt I will work on this a bit more but it is a great improvement at the first attempt and this, of course, is a really good lesson in itself. I couldn't have produced this without the earlier sketch. Producing art appears to be much the same as any other exercise - the more you practice the better you get. You always strive to improve, whatever that might mean to you.

So I am happyish with this and the Secretary of State is reunited with her nose. Now you the next phase of this mad cap idea.

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Clinton's missing nose

As part of the search for the missing nose I decided to trace out the photograph to see if I could learn anymore about the face. I didn't but I found the whole thing a bit of fun.

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The scene of the crime - the missing Clinton nose

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Hillary Clinton's nose. I can't find it

Well I'm back on portraits and I am trying to make a likeness of the former first lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This is part of an idea I am working on which, if it is like many of my other ideas, will never get finished! Be that as it may, the first part is that I need to make a portrait of the afore mentioned Secretary of State. I have managed a reasonable first stab at it apart from the nose - I just don't seem to be able to get nose right. This is really frustrating - I know I will eventually find the nose but at the moment it is nowhere to be found. Wow when did that happen? I feel confident that I will find a solution, not I will never find a solution but rather it is only a matter of time. Now that is progress.

In the meantime I will search forlornly for Ms Clinton's nose - now I bet that's not to be found in the Wikileaks documents.

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Brushes Painting - the other Christmas image

This is the Christmas bird I posted the other day without any additions from Photoshop. Silly, I know, but really quite endearing.

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Brushes Painting - the strange bluebird

I find myself doodling in Brushes at the moment. It is so relaxing and very appealing.

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Experimenting with Linda

Over the past few months I have drawn Linda many times.   Today I have revisited this face for a new type of art work for me - painting.   I would love to write that this part of some great plan but it wasn't.  I wanted some large oil pastels and bought a set not realising what I could do with them.  However, once I read the instructions, a first, I discovered that these pastels were water soluble so I decided to try this out.  Enter Linda.

I first sketched out an outline - which took about 15 minutes.  I mention this because when I last drew Linda I never really managed to  a good likeness whereas now I can do this within 15 minutes.  That is a measure of the progress I have made over the past few months.

So to the pastels.  I was a bit tentative at first working from the light to dark.  As my confidence grew I started to apply more pressure.  Once I had finished it was an interesting drawing but only stage two.  Now for the real test - applying water.   Again I was really nervous to start off but slowly I got a bit of feel for what I was doing and slowly the painting began to take shape.

Overall I am really pleased with the result.  Now I am not saying it is any good but it does give a lot things to think about when I do it again.   This is the only way to learn and improve your work just keep working and reflecting.

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A bit of Christmas silliness

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Brushes Painting

Playing around with brushes again!

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Sad owl

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Another Frozen Image

Sitting down and clear a bit of a back log - well that is the plan however I want to do some drawing so I might finish the backlog today or ever!   Mentioning drawing I have found that I am starting to move away from straight recreation of the scene to a more subtle approach.  I am now looking for something that I find interesting rather than trying to conform to other people's rules.  In short I suspect many of my new images will never be able to be entered into mainstream competitions as they have been digitally manipulated.   No matter.

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Worth the cold

Well I have started to work on my photos from the past couple of days.  These are part of a side project of tress I hope to mount on a wall in the house.  I am quite happy with how things are developing so perhaps donning all those warm cloths was worth it.
 

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Freezing my wotsits off

My word it was cold today - according to the thermometer in the car it was - 4c and this was at lunchtime.  Now I know by Russian standards this is nothing but for me it was still cold.   I drove through the winter wonderland this afternoon and stopped occasionally to take some photographs.  The only problem was that it was so cold it was painful to hold the camera for too long - perhaps I should have put my gloves on!   Anyway, just uploaded the photographs and over the next few days I will start working on them.  Not sure whether I like what I have produced so far - they seem a little chocolate boxish.
 

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Venturing even further into Apple World

Well I have taken an even bigger step into Steve Jobs clutches - I've signed up for MobileMe.   There were a few teething problems in the set up - the latest is that the default time zone is West Coast USA - which I suspect says a lot about Apple's world view.

So I have started my 60 day free trial.  I wonder how it will all end.

One final thing.  The iPad is now behaving itself.  I am not sure whether it was the restore to factory settings or the latest iTunes/OS upgrade that has sorted it or perhaps some, as yet, undiscovered reason.  Whatever it was it has worked and the iPad is better than before - although I am not sure I like the folders facility much.  Computers Huh - who'd have em?
 

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Resorted to Restore

Well nothing was happening with the iPad so I have restored it to factory settings.  this is going to be a bit of a bind but hopefully I will be able to control what does and does not go on the iPad and make it work properly with iTunes on my PC.  Well that is the plan and I have every confidence that it will go wrong along the way.  I thought Apple products were supposed to be superior to anything else!  Ah this is an old argument which I know is worthless to pursue.
 

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Updating the iPad software

Well I have taken the plunge and decided to update the iPad software.   All seems to have been going fine until the update procedure started to backup the iPad.  As I write this things seem to have stopped - perhaps I am suffering from paranoia but this has been the problem with the iPad all along.   We'll just have to see what happens.   If this stalls then the only thing left is to restore to factory settings which I am prepared to do.  I have been clearing out all my Brushes drawings so that if I have to restore I don't loose anything.  Lets just hope it doesn't come to this.  

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All worn out

On my way back to the car - tired but satisfied. Now just got the drive home to look forward to - deep joy.

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God the noise!

Well the restaurant maybe a feast for the eye but it assaults the ears! It is like having lunch in swimming pool with a 1000 young kids playing in the pool. Deafening! To top it all someone is murdering the piano in the corner. Whilst this a great idea in principle in practice it just makes a bad situation worst. Clearly the Victorians weren't too concerned with acoustics - form triumphs over function.

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Here we go

So we are fortified and refreshed. Now for the hardwork !

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Coffee and muffins at the V&A

After a brisk walk across Green Park and down Knightsbridge Road we have made it to the V&A and a well earned coffee and muffin. This us the first time I have been to the V&A and first impressions are that it is vast vault of the strange and wonderful. Let's hope it doesn't disappoint.

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Making progress and taking my time

Well I finally got up enough courage to work on the drawing I started a couple of days ago.   After one or two false starts I think it is working out really well.  Of course there are many things I am not happy with it, some I suspect a product of the material I am using and some my lack of technique.   Both of these deficiencies I hope will be overcome with time and practice.  Well I suppose you have to live in hope.

I am also letting the whole process take time.  Not too long ago I would have rushed in and called the drawing finished but I am learning that speed is possibly one of my greatest problems.   Just take my time and keep thinking about what I am doing and hopefully things will get better.

Anyway, I am feeling pretty good with myself.  Let's hop this continues.
 

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One final distraction

This is it - I really must be brave and work on the drawing.  Still it has been a very fruitful and creative distraction.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Playing around with an idea...

I am currently working on a drawing at the moment and I am worried that I may spoil things so I am looking for other things to distract me.  Here are three variations on a theme - they distracted me.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

Blog: http://simonmarchini.posterous.com/

Fotos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/Guthlac

Twitter: http://twitter.com/@simonmarchini

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Flickr: Fingers Scintilla's Photostream

Flickr: Fingers Scintilla's Photostream

This is from Fingers Scintilla profile page.

hi there... im here to get peoples views on my photography work.. and to see other amazing artists from around the world :) i want to show my secondlife work that i mix with digital designs.. in a real life enviroment.. i dont think there should be a real life and secondlife art... its just art...:)

i guess my work is a cross between digital design and second life photos... i want to create different images that test me to see if i can create the images i get in my head.
A big thankyou to all the very kind people who have left me testomonials... it means alot please feel free to talk to me on secondlife... or message me here anytime..

Christmas comes but once a year...so they say

Any one who has been to Disney World Market Place knows that this is not true - Christmas is a festival that just keeps giving - to the Disney Corp - all year around.  However, for the rest of us the great Christmas buying spree is just about to start.  And so to mark this - well actually we have just put the tree up - I have made this photograph.  I suspect over the next three weeks I will be making many more!
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

Blog: http://simonmarchini.posterous.com/

Fotos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/Guthlac

Twitter: http://twitter.com/@simonmarchini

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