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Patrick

2012-01-29T07:43:00.001Z

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Justin Bieber Vs Avril Lavigne - MeatSpace S2E02

2012-01-29T07:29:00.001Z

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Toronto Lego Man in Space

2012-01-29T07:25:00.001Z

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Christina

2012-01-28T11:09:00.001Z

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An axe

2012-01-27T17:54:00.001Z

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Anne

2012-01-27T09:14:00.001Z

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Anne

2012-01-26T19:19:00.001Z

Still struggling with using brushes to produce what I want. I look at other artist's work with brushes and they seem to be able to control the medium far better than I do and I suspect that is my real problem. With all computer program's you are working metaphors rather than reality and this where I suspect my problem lies - I just can't make the brushes do what I want them to - I just don't truly understand the underlying metaphor. Still there is only one way round this - try try again!

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Eleanor

2012-01-25T14:23:00.001Z

This started out with such great intentions and then morphed into something totally different. In the end I feel she turned into an ageing actress who has certainly seen better days. I really enjoyed making this painting and whilst there may well be technical problems with it I nonetheless like the end result.

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Ann

2012-01-24T23:40:00.001Z

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Man

2012-01-23T20:01:00.001Z

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Green Lady No 1

2012-01-23T12:19:00.001Z

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Hare

2012-01-23T11:09:00.001Z

The Tate is in a state of flux - around have of the gallery space is closed due to a major refit which will go on until 2013, no one appears to have noticed what is happening in London in 2012 but that is another story. They have also left the main hall of the building empty other than a series of relatively small sculptures, including this one by Barry Flanagan. It was all too much so out came the iPhone and this was the result, along with quite a bit of post production on the ipad afterwards.

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Turner and me

2012-01-22T13:20:00.001Z

I knocked this little wonder up at the Tate, it was part of the display of Turner's work ... I guess it was for children but when I was there three other men were drawing as well. So it is now official ... I have work hanging in the Tate !

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Painted man

2012-01-21T20:32:00.001Z

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Photographer vs Golden Wonder ... (petapixel.com)

2012-01-21T19:21:00.001Z

Oh dear...oh dear...I think the Golden Wonder staff training isn't as good as it should be.

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Blue lady

2012-01-21T10:16:00.001Z

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Green Man

2012-01-20T10:56:00.001Z

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Dawn

2012-01-19T23:13:00.001Z

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Video: Being Human Series 4 Launch Trailer: "The Stakes are High"

2012-01-19T19:27:00.001Z

Not long to wait now.

Being Human Series 4 Launch Trailer: "The Stakes are High"

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Pike

2012-01-18T10:15:00.001Z

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Jean

2012-01-18T01:09:00.001Z

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Meg Ryan Plastic Surgery - Before & After Pictures 2012

2012-01-16T22:47:00.001Z

http://www.celebrityplasticsurgery24.com/meg-ryan-plastic-surgery/

I suppose this is sort of compliment by one of my drawings is listed as a 'photograph' of Meg Ryan - what strange world we live in.

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Phillip Andre

2012-01-16T17:56:00.001Z

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Trauma

2012-01-16T10:36:00.001Z

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Hannah

2012-01-16T10:33:00.001Z

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John junior

2012-01-15T21:01:00.001Z

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Geoffrey

2012-01-14T23:54:00.001Z

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Sleeping

2012-01-14T21:39:00.001Z

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Andrew

2012-01-14T20:48:00.001Z

It is official - I am no Raphael.

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Drawing in the margin

2012-01-13T17:24:00.001Z

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Charles

2012-01-12T16:41:00.001Z

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John

2012-01-11T20:57:00.001Z

Another little sketch

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Caledonian fire

2012-01-11T15:59:00.001Z

Quick Brushes sketch

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Kim

2012-01-11T00:09:00.001Z

I've had enough of the iPad for a while so back to the first love - drawing on paper. Here are two studies of Kim.

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Doodling

2012-01-10T21:22:00.001Z

I'm relistening to Stephen Fry's second autobiography and whilst doing this I created this doodle.

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Eagle

2012-01-09T08:56:00.001Z

Quick five minute sketch as prep for this morning's session at the art class. I have a plan for what we are supposed to be doing - whether it works out is another matter!

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Jimmy Carr...circa?

2012-01-08T09:00:00.001Z

Drawn at the same time as the Philip Jupitus sketch

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Philip Jupitus...circa?

2012-01-07T20:13:00.001Z

Just kicking back and watching QI on Dave, where else? And Philip Jupitus is one of the guest so I just knocked out this quick characture...don't know when the show was recorded though.

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Sherlock ... initial thoughts

2012-01-06T14:58:00.001Z

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Irene Adler

2012-01-06T12:31:00.001Z

I have had an idea inspired by the new series of Sherlock and this means I have to work out a number of separate problems before the idea can converted into a real life drawing. This is a sketch from part of this process...expect many more in the coming days. That is, of course, if I go off the idea altogether - not unknown.

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Lonely man of the night watch

2012-01-05T23:44:00.001Z

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Profile

2012-01-05T14:55:00.001Z

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Intense Man

2012-01-05T13:16:00.001Z

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Flickr: Nikolai Lockertsen's Photostream

2012-01-05T11:16:00.001Z

One o the grat joys of the iPad is that you can spend (waste?) your time wondering through the highways and byways of the social networks to find gems like this. It puts my attempts at making art on the iPad in its place...still got to start somewhere.

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Angry Man

2012-01-05T10:04:00.001Z

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Steve McQueen

2012-01-04T08:06:00.001Z

One of the most powerful contemporary artworks I have seen was produced by McQueen, a Turner prize winning artist and film maker. Queen and Country is a set of UK stamps with the photographs of military personnel who had died in Iraq. I found this portrait of McQueen some time ago and it had a great impact on me. I believe the photographer took it at Cannes, where McQueen was promoting a film and if my memory serves me well it was a bit of a rush job but nonetheless McQueen came across as a larger than life character.

So I have had this bubbling in the back of my mind for some time and now I have produced my take on the portrait again using Brushes but this time in a much looser fashion. I think it is effective and I feel happier with this than the other paintings I have made over the last few days.

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Same person, different points of view

2012-01-03T15:17:00.001Z

Over the past couple of days I have been driving myself mad by looking at other artists work with the iPad and I think these two images explain, in part, why that is. They are based on the same person but with quite differing results and I think it is clear which was made on the iPad using brushes. (just in case it is not it is the one on the left)

Now I like the brushes painting but it doesn't have accuracy of the drawing made on paper using graphite which is what I am striving for. Of course in a great part this comparison is fatuous for a whole lot of reasons but I think it does show that when I use Brushes I still have a steep learning curve to negotiate. However, on the other hand perhaps this is really the wrong way to go and I should forget other artists work and just develop my own style and embrace that. Who knows how I will resolve this question?

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A day in the English countryside

2012-01-02T23:58:00.001Z

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Pushing the envelope

2012-01-01T11:23:00.001Z

The last painting I made felt like I was hitting my head against a wall. Much as I tried I just couldn't take it any further. Well a good night's sleep helps provide a bit of prospective and so I have produced this. I feel it is a marked improvement on the last painting however with one or two flaws, not least of which was the choice of the colour of the underpainting which meant that no matter what I did the final result was not quite the colour I had intended. Of course this could have been overcome if I had not decided to produce the painting as if I was in the real world i.e. all on one layer, rather than putting the underpainting on a separate layer and then painting over it on a different layer. All valuable lessons for the future.

Perhaps the most important lesson, however, was to get the original drawing, upon which this is painted, as accurate as possible. For me this is really quite hard given the way I work in the real world but it was worth the frustration it created whilst trying to achieve this.

Overall a good start to the new year...lets hope that it bodes well for future endeavours. Happy New year.

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Break News!! Darth Vader in full retreat

2011-12-30T17:03:00.001Z

Exclusive footage of the the evil empire's leader and his crack band of penguin storm troopers retreat from the rebel forces Lego monster...

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Hitting the Talent Wall

2011-12-30T15:05:00.001Z

Another day another attempt to get better at something - so here is my latest attempt at a Brushes painting and I have come to realise that there is a talent wall and I have just hit it. I have also realised that the talent wall can be moved further and further back the more you practice and so this is mine at the moment. I hope that I will be able to move it further away as I go on but for now this is as good as I can make things.

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Battling with exhaustion

2011-12-29T16:09:00.001Z

Hyperbole of cause but this is the hardest I have worked on a painting in one session. I have been researching other Brushes painters on line and frankly I am a raw beginner compared to some. But I suppose we all have to start somewhere so here is my first stab at a serious Brushes painting. This took me the best part of 3 hours to complete there are still many things wrong with this which I might try to correct but I am now feeling drained. I think a period reflection is in hand but the first thoughts are that this better than I feared.

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Getting ready for the concert

2011-12-28T19:10:00.001Z

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David Hockney

2011-12-27T11:39:00.001Z

I'm currently listening to the David Hockney interview on the Start the Week and I thought it would be a great idea to make a quick portrait of Hockney on the iPad. I hope this has Craft and the poetry.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

2011-12-27T10:35:00.001Z

This is starting to get like a copy of Radio Times (other listing magazines are available!) but Sherlock returns on Sunday, yipee! 2012 should prove to be a big year for Benedict Cumberbatch as War Horse should propel him into the headlights of Hollywood...however Sherlock takes some beating. I promise this is the last TV listings blog...I think.

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Sinead Keenan

2011-12-27T10:21:00.001Z

Not long now before the new series of Being Human is shown. It has been 12 long months but the wait should soon be over. It has a tremendous ensemble cast with the wonderful Sinead Keenan playing the world weary Nina who had werewolfhood given to here by her boyfriend George. Oh the things we do for love!

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Shake it Out...some iPhoneography

2011-12-26T13:18:00.001Z

I don't know where this came from but I actually made an iPhoneography image! The Shake It Out ref is from the latest, and possibly best, Florence and the Machine CD.

One final thing - the iOS spellcheck still doesn't recognise iPhoneography - very strange.

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Can't Take Brushes Seriously

2011-12-26T11:06:00.001Z

I try and I try but I just find making an image with Brushes a bit of fun. I look at some of the work that some people make with Brushes and I wonder how they are able to do that as I find myself just having fun when using brushes. I know you can do a lot more with the technology but I just don't seem to be able to do this. Take this drawing of Sean Connery. I started out with all good intentions but very soon I lost interest in making a serious sketch and drifted off into the 'fun' territory. I suspect part of the problem is that I find the whole drawing experience when using Brushes so very sterile and cold - there is no organic feed back from screen that you get with paper.

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Another Brushes Hockney inspired iPad drawing

2011-12-25T22:33:00.001Z

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Oh by the way...Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T10:59:00.001Z

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Battery LIfe on the iPad

2011-12-25T10:57:00.001Z

I know this is a well publicised problem but I have noticed that the battery life of my iPad is getting worse. This could be due to the problems brought about by iOS 5, which Apple are supposed to have fixed (and we all believe everything that Apple says don't we) but it might also be because my iPad is now getting old. It is, after all nearly 2 years old and in the fast moving world of consumer technology that is really geriatric. Whatever the reason the battery isn't lasting as long as it did before.

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Inspired by Hockney

2011-12-25T10:52:00.001Z

Well it is Christmas and what should you do? Well I was looking through the free (?) Sunday Times this morning and found a video by Hockney talking about his iPad drawings and so I felt like making one myself. This is just a 10 minute bit of fun and is based on Duke Ellington although whether it is a reasonable likeness is irrelevant - it is a bit of fun nothing more which is what art should be even though those of us who try to create 'art' find the creative process, at times, as far from 'fun' as you can get. This is actually totally over the top statement but what the heck.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

2011-12-22T14:39:00.001Z

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I suppose this is almost fame?

2011-12-21T11:09:00.001Z

I have been getting some strange hits on Flickr page for the attached Pete Rose sketch. I couldn't understand why this was until I did a bit of digging and found if you Google the term 'Pete Rose diving into third base' this is the first image that appears on Google Images. Fame at last!?!????

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Another Dr Who sketch

2011-12-20T20:58:00.001Z

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Dr Who sketches

2011-12-20T20:15:00.001Z

Just been messing about in Brushes and came up with these quick sketches

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Troubled Hollywood starlet

2011-12-19T11:18:00.001Z

This is a better photo of the oil pastel drawing/painting (I never know where drawing ends and painting begins?) and I am still quite pleased with the result. It is not how I would want the final painting(?) to look like but as a stepping stone to something better then I am more than satisfied.

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cows & cows & cows

2011-12-18T21:59:00.001Z

Very silly

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Try to watch this without laughing or grinning

2011-12-18T21:46:00.001Z

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The Sneezing Baby Panda

2011-12-18T21:45:00.001Z

It's silly I know but what the heck

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Troubled Hollywood Starlet

2011-12-18T20:24:00.001Z

This is the latest in the development project I am working on over the holidays. This is a mixed media painting of ink, professional marker pen and oil pastels and as I write this I am really quite pleased with the result. The image here doesn't really do the final result justice as there is a blue cast to the colour. Nonetheless it would seem that the project is starting to pay dividends.

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Dr Who theme

2011-12-18T11:24:00.001Z

I seem to have a bit of a Dr Who theme running this weekend. Here is a rather scary Catherine Tate aka Donna Noble.

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Dr Who?

2011-12-18T11:09:00.001Z

I made this sketch last night after having a really great lunch with my brother and his wife...not sure why that might have effected my drawing but it did.

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Doodling in the museum

2011-12-16T11:13:00.001Z

I'm having a coffee and doodling in the Leicester museum and art gallery...there are worst ways to spend the morning!

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Moulon Rouge sketch

2011-12-16T09:30:00.001Z

At the same time as watching the Kylie show I switched over to the Moulon Rouge film during the break and made this sketch.

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What and incredible show

2011-12-16T09:27:00.001Z

Last night I watched the Kylie live concert on Sky and whilst it was the gayest show I have seen in a long time it was also such a wonder feast for the eye it almost made me wish I had 3D TV. Everything was produced on an outlandish scale that seem to be inversely proportional to the diminutive Ms Minogue. Great TV.

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iPad and SimCity

2011-12-15T16:56:00.001Z

Having just read my last post it struck me how much things have changed since I first owned SimCity ... Perhaps the best way to show this change is to note that I am writing about SimCity on my iPad, which by the way has SimCity as part of its spellcheck.

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Blast from the past

2011-12-15T16:52:00.001Z

I'm just installing SimCity 3000 on my computer and it really is a blast from the past. The interface is so 1990's, which as we all know is like something from the dark ages. Let's hope that the game is just as retro.

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Troubled Hollywood Starlet

2011-12-15T12:11:00.001Z

Next in the series

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Troubled Hollywood Starlet

2011-12-14T13:28:00.001Z

This is the second stab at this drawing and I think it is better. I have a cunning plan over the Christmas break...I'm doing to work on this one drawing again and again in an effort to develop a number of skills. Well that's the plan and I wouldn't place too much credence in me sticking to it!

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Troubled Hollywood Starlet

2011-12-13T15:23:00.001Z

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A reasonable likeness...I'll let you decide

2011-12-13T09:36:00.001Z

A famous Hollywood actress.

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Duke of Edinburgh

2011-12-11T13:32:00.001Z

I have been inspired by a painting I saw of the D of E. In truth this is the first drawing I am happy with...however the frustrating things that this is not what I want as I was using the painting as a means to develop my pastel skills. However that is the way things go I suppose.

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Brushes Painting

2011-12-10T20:11:00.001Z

What more cane be said....this is a Brushes Painting

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Making a mess

2011-12-10T19:22:00.001Z

Well I am still feeling a bit under the weather....now I am getting dizzy spells - deep joy! Anyway it has given me a chance to experiment with soft pastels. I tried this in the early part of the year and made a real mess of things, both artistically and in reality. I had a set of VERY soft pastels and unfortunately I didn't have the correct control to make the most of them. Now almost 12 months on it is time to have another go, this time with slightly harder 'soft' pastels and this was the result. Now this isn't quite as big an artistic mess as the first time I tried this out but I still managed to make quite a bit of mess Using the pastels!

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Muppets and Frank

2011-12-10T11:22:00.001Z

I was watching this and noticed that the banner ad from YouTube/Google was from Frank, the drugs abuse counselling service...is there a connection?

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Making Progress No 2

2011-12-09T12:17:00.001Z

These are final drawings from the first and last session of the life drawing course and this really does show the problems at measuring progress in an artistic endeavour. The drawing on the left has a number of faults but has an interest due to its simplicity of line and form. The one on the right marks a transitional point in my artistic career and as such is not really the culmination of five weeks work but rather a stepping stone to something new. Nonetheless it does mark significant progress even if the actual colour needs a lot of work...in fact the photo makes the drawing look better than it does in real life.

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Measuring Progress No 1

2011-12-09T12:00:00.001Z

This is the first of two images that try and record the progress I have made during a five week life drawing class. As with all things artistic progress is a very wooly concept open to interpretation, personal taste and experience. The drawing session usually involved 3 or 4 drawings and this shows no 3 in each session. The drawing on the right is from the first week and one on the left is from the last and I think it is far to say there is a difference and I would say progress.

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"Tight schedule" forced ban on DSLRs, says London Transport Museum [update] - British Journal of Photography

2011-12-07T17:35:00.001Z

This must go under the...'I just don't believe it...'

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2130486/-tight-...

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The Cafe - Sky1 HD

2011-12-05T17:00:00.001Z

This is just a wonderfully underplayed series where not a great deal happens yet the characters are so well observed that you can't wait for the next episode. http://sky1.sky.com/sky1hd-shows/the-cafe

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Now I've got a cold

2011-12-05T14:48:00.001Z

Oh it never rains until it pours - I think I've got a cold. Actually I suspect it is a variation of the bug/virus thing I have been suffering from over the past few weeks. So I'm spending my time messing around with Brushes...here's my latest mess about

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An exhausted drawing

2011-12-05T08:17:00.001Z

I knocked this up after a long day driving...I was knackered.

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Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell jing

2011-12-04T08:39:00.001Z

The view from the restaurant ...10 minutes ago this was almost a white out. Going south in a couple of hours - makes me feel like a snow goose.

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Sir Thomas Moore

2011-12-03T20:48:00.001Z

Copying a master does help you to understand his genius. So it is with this weak approximation of Holbein's drawing of Sir Thomas Moore. It is based on the original I saw at the Holyrood exhibition this afternoon...well worth a trip to Edinburgh just to see...however it closes on the 15th January next year so not much longer to catch it.

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Inspired by Holbein

2011-12-03T17:10:00.001Z

There is something wonderful about the work of Hans Holbein the younger and the exhibition at the Queens Gallery in Edinburgh truly does justice to his genius. This inspired me to create this drawing.

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Mr Grumpy...

2011-12-02T09:15:00.001Z

Another Brushes Painting?

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Colour photographs of fashion, 1940s, by John Rawlings

2011-12-02T08:07:00.001Z

This is the most amazing series of fashion images I have seen. The most surreal aspect about them is that they were made in the 1940's. Eat your heart out Rankin!

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/08/john-rawlings-1940s-colour-fashion-shots/

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Corner Portraits, by Irving Penn

2011-12-02T08:03:00.001Z

A wonderful series of Penn's work. http://www.retronaut.co/2011/09/corner-portraits-by-irving-penn/

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35+ Figurative & Expressive Oil Paintings

2011-12-02T07:54:00.001Z

A great series of paintings...the only down side is that there are too many...after a while they tend to loose their impact

35+ Figurative & Expressive Oil Paintings
http://www.hybridlava.com/artwork/35-figurative-expressive-oil-paintings/

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First of the day

2011-12-02T06:18:00.001Z

Having woken at just after five I decided there was nothing more to be done by trying to go back to sleep so I decided to experiment with another brushes drawing or should that be painting?

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