tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14759436441034399772024-03-13T10:06:02.180-07:00Mark Satchwill ArtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-53433987681581688942016-05-20T09:35:00.002-07:002016-05-20T09:35:39.093-07:00Approaching 50 (Self Portrait)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12 x 9 inches, charcoal, 2016.<br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">I turn 50 later this year. No big deal. What is a big deal is the decision I made with my consultant a couple of weeks ago to start dialysis and have my kidneys removed. I have Polycystic Kidney Disease, a hereditary kidney disease where cysts grow on the kidneys (and sometimes other organs). The kidneys grow in size and eventually stop working. My kidneys are still functioning (about %25) but are now so large they are causing a lot of discomfort and are squashing other organs. Hence the decision to remove them. So, by the time I hit 50 in December I will be dialysing three times a week and may well have had both my diseased kidneys removed. It will be a big change but hopefully I will feel more comfortable and have more energy. Maybe by the time I'm 51 I will have had a transplant. There is always hope - roll on 50!</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-78399948057164573432016-05-12T07:53:00.000-07:002016-05-12T07:53:10.844-07:00Life Drawing Session 7 : Clowning AroundSo at last night's life drawing session, after a few warm up drawings, Nikhil painted a clown face on the model, which added some drama and a little creepiness to the drawings :). All drawings are in charcoal and from 5 - 15 minute poses.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-66454026950463636522016-05-05T11:41:00.000-07:002016-05-05T11:41:54.996-07:00Life Drawing Session 6 : Fun With DummiesThis week's session involved ropes and dummies! The gentleman who stepped-in to pose last time agreed to model again. After some 10 second poses we settled into 10 - 15 minute poses for the rest of the evening, tied him up, then tied the dummy up and created some scenarios. Another fun evening!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-13195088045541422052016-04-29T08:49:00.000-07:002016-04-29T08:49:07.197-07:00Life Drawing Session 5Today I went to a different life drawing session, "Life Drawing Happenings" which was In Hemel Hempstead and organised by Kelly Pedlar. It was a bit more structured than the evening sessions in Watford and Kelly is enthusiastic and there to help if needed.. It meets monthly and was quite busy. We started with 10 second poses (drawings 1 and 2), then some minute ones, (drawing 3), some longer ones experimenting with colour, and finally an hour long pose (drawing 8). I shall certainly be going again!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-5043393077387882762016-04-28T08:37:00.001-07:002016-04-28T08:37:51.678-07:00Life Drawing Session 4Last night's life drawing session was fairly straightforward after last weeks "Truth Mic" fun. The life model scheduled to pose did not turn up but a gentleman who had actually come to draw volunteered to step in as he had had some experience of life modelling. We were very grateful. He was actually very good and interesting to draw. All the drawings are 10 - 15 minute poses except the pose at the desk which was 30 minutes.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-88539209977489931872016-04-27T07:34:00.001-07:002016-04-27T07:37:38.995-07:00The Golden GirlsI was a big fan of The Golden Girls series back ni the Eighties and have been watching repeats on the TV recently. The comedy still stands up well today and I remain terribly fond of those characters, So decided to paint them!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-20859369479993729202016-04-21T05:25:00.001-07:002016-04-21T05:25:32.207-07:00Life Drawing Session 3It was another interesting life drawing session last night. The perspex screen was in use again but this time it had the words "Truth Mic" across the top in black tape. A microphone and stand was behind the perspex and a bench in front of it. Sadly only a couple of us were there last night. Anyway, the model posed on the bench while Nikhil went behind the screen to use the mic to express his "truth". It made for a very interesting evening, somewhere between drawing and therapy, as not only was I responding and drawing what I saw in front of me but I was responding to what Nikhil was saying and including that in the drawing too. Drawing 3 was the most successful in this respect. I declined the offer to go behind the screen and express my "truth" but maybe in the future, who knows!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-73349047052762723662016-04-14T05:16:00.000-07:002016-04-14T05:16:37.699-07:00Life Drawing Session 2Last night I attended another session of life drawing. There was a few more people this time and Nikhil, the organizer, had set up a white perspex window which the model went behind to pose. She was lit from behind in two directions so through the perspex we could see a distorted silhouette and shadows. In some poses parts of her body touched the perspex and at the end of the session she moved in front of the perspex and Nikhil stood behind. All the initial poses were 1 - 2 minutes, then there were some longer ones but nothing longer than 15 minutes. I felt my drawing was a little more confident this week. Looking forward to the next session!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-67620201471684673762016-04-07T05:20:00.000-07:002016-04-07T07:03:34.510-07:00Life Drawing Session 1Last night I attended a life drawing session for the first time in over 20 years! Life drawing was my favourite thing when I was at school but on my degree course the only life drawing sessions were outside of classes and with all the other work there often wasn't time to fit them in. I last attended a life drawing evening class when I lived in London in the early 90's.<br />
I was a little trepidatious about going but it was actually terrific. The artist Nikhil Nathan Kirsh holds the sessions in his studio space at the Attico Art Centre in Watford. It was very informal - aside from the model there was only three of us drawing and a photographer.<br />
Nikhil had an idea he wanted to try - using a projector to place photos from the previous week's session (of a male and female) over the the model to create all sorts of shadows and layers. It did feel a bit like diving in at the deep end but I was up for a challenge! The only trouble was that the lack of light made it a bit gloomy <span style="text-align: center;">- after a while Nikhil got out some candles which helped a little. We did a quick warm-up followed by two longer poses and then another quick one at the end. I really enjoyed it, even though I'm VERY rusty having only worked with photos for so long. I can't wait for next week! I'm going to post my drawings each week and hope to see improvements as we go!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-27640019025179320412016-02-05T09:45:00.001-08:002016-02-05T09:45:58.961-08:00Liz Taylor (AHS)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liz Taylor, 7 x 10 inches, watercolor, pencil and gouache, 2016.</td></tr>
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<br />A portrait of Liz Taylor from the TV series American Horror Story: Hotel, as played by Dennis O'Hare. It wasn't my favourite season of the show but Dennis was fabulous as Liz.<br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-66492509824943360562016-01-29T08:17:00.001-08:002016-01-29T08:17:49.774-08:00Pascal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Pascal - Love Runs Through His Veins" by Asher Meekins, a vampire story for which I painted the cover, is now available for the Kindle from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/PASCAL-Love-Runs-Through-Veins-ebook/dp/B01B6P2MO4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454065942&sr=8-1&keywords=pascal+asher+meekins" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. A print version will be available soon...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-57868444232975928842016-01-28T09:26:00.003-08:002016-01-28T09:26:47.224-08:00Bathtime<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathtime, watercolor and pencil, 8 x 11 inches, 2016.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-50024845808801883082016-01-28T09:21:00.000-08:002016-01-28T09:21:48.911-08:00David Bowie 1947 - 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Ziggy To Blackstar, watercolor and pencil, 2016.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-8154153091541562082015-12-08T06:44:00.000-08:002015-12-08T06:44:11.298-08:00Strider (Aragorn)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strider, 21 x 27 cm, watercolor and pencil, 2015.<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br />A painting of Strider or Aragorn as we later find out he is really called in The Lord Of The Rings novels. It was painted for the EBSQ "Inspired by Tolkien" show. I took inspiration from not only the book but also Tolkien's poem "Song Of Aragorn". My partner Mike posed for me :)</span></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-66782339657981234802015-11-02T12:11:00.000-08:002015-11-02T12:11:39.168-08:00Frida De Los Muertos<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frida De Los Muertos, detail<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br />I painted this for EBSQ's Day Of The Dead themed show. It''s a portrait of Frida Kahlo in Day Of The Dead make-up. It's based on her "Self Portrait with Monkeys" so she is surrrouned by spider monkeys with decorated skull heads - her exposed heart is being caressed by the monkeys and the veins of the leaves are attached to the veins of her heart symbolising how nature fed her soul.<br /><br />Prints are available from Etsy and Society 6.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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One of my dog-walking friends recently lost her 11 year old Golden Retriever, Alfie, to cancer, so I drew him for her. He was a lovely sweet-natured dog who will be much missed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-61708748974293115562015-09-24T08:59:00.001-07:002015-09-24T08:59:36.729-07:00Willem Arondeus 1894 - 1943<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willem Arondeus, pencil, 6 x 8 inches, 2015.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Willem Arondeus was an openly gay artist, writer and Nazi resistance fighter from Holland. He used his artistic skills to create forged identity papers for Dutch Jews. He led an attack on the Amsterdam General Registry Office in an attempt to destroy as many of the original documents as possible and managed to destroy thousands. Unfortunately he was later caught and executed by firing squad.. In his last message he said "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards".</span></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-53698812451579710652015-09-10T10:33:00.002-07:002015-09-10T10:33:45.377-07:00Blue Iris<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Iris, watercolor and pencil, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2015<br /><br />This year our garden was mostly given over to growing vegetables and fruit, and to our two chickens so they could clear the weeds! However, there were some flowers, among them these gorgeous blue irises, </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-60285732822356616792015-09-02T04:17:00.000-07:002015-09-02T04:17:51.261-07:00Mark's Male Art<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from Adam's Apple, watercolor, 2015.</td></tr>
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If you're not aware already, and males in various states of undress are your sort of thing, I have another blog where I post my drawings and paintings of such subject matter - <a href="http://marksmaleart.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mark's Male Art</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-66750700173336835742015-08-20T11:27:00.002-07:002015-08-20T11:27:34.571-07:00Cilla<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cilla, pencil, 6 x 8 inches, 2015<br /><br />Cilla was laid to rest today - in tribute here is a pencil portrait I drew of her a couple of weeks ago.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-69732357176427492292015-08-19T13:23:00.000-07:002015-08-19T13:23:40.905-07:00Four Faces Of Toyah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I created this Toyah "wallpaper" by creating four individual portraits in watercolor and pencil, scanning them into the computer and using Photoshop to arrange them.<br />
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It's available to purchase as prints, mugs, leggings, pillows etc. from <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/marksatchwillart/works/15931789-four-faces-of-toyah">Redbubble</a> or <a href="https://society6.com/product/four-faces-of-toyah_print#1=45">Society6</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-51065557319306450152015-08-03T11:14:00.000-07:002015-08-03T11:23:43.533-07:00Ta-ra Cilla<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swingin' Cilla, 4 x 6 inches, watercolor and pencil, 2015</td></tr>
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When I was 6 or 7 years old I was given an old record player - the type that was in a box with a lid, on legs. As far as I can remember I think it had belonged to one of my Aunts and came with a pile of old singes - 45's and 78's, all stuff from the 60's. I can only really remember two of the records - one was The Beverly Sisters "Little Drummer Boy" and the other was "Anyone Who Had A Heart" by Cilla Black. That one I played again and again, I loved it.<br />
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Around the same time my paternal Grandparents lived in Denham, and I frequently stayed with them. I was outside playing one day when a lady passed with a pram. The baby in the pram threw it's glove into the street, so I retrieved it and handed it to the lady, who smiled. My Nan must have been watching as when I went back in she told the lady with the pram was Cilla Black,<br />
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It wasn't until the 1990's that I really paid attention to Cilla's music. Throughout the 80's and my adolescence she had been a fixture on TV with Surprise Surprise and Blind Date and I was ambivalent about her. I was working in a music shop in the early 90's when a compilation of Cilla's hits was released (I think it was the first time her music had been released on CD). I was hooked! I would play it in the shop - on one occasion Elvis Costello was in the shop at the time and examined the CD case in the "What's Playing Now" box with a wry smile. It's a love affair that's lasted until now. Cilla was the most successful of the 60's girl singers (Dusty, Lulu, Sandie etc) but the least well remembered, mainly because she never really went away but became a staple of "light entertainment" and that rather tainted her musical legacy. Of course, there is also the voice - distinctive but divisive. Cilla always said she hoped to be remembered as a singer rather than a TV presenter. I hope she is too.<br />
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Cilla Black - 1943 - 2015Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-50154166260222613462015-07-31T10:55:00.003-07:002015-07-31T10:55:53.689-07:00Bianca Del Rio and Sharon Needles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bianca Del Rio, watercolor and pencil, 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharon Needles, watercolor and pencil, 2015<br /><br />I'm a big fan of Rupaul's Drag Race so I painted these portraits of two of my favourite contestants.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-49048777637503237192015-06-22T13:29:00.000-07:002015-06-22T13:29:22.050-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank Underwood, watercolor and pencil, 4 x 6 inches, 2015</td></tr>
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I love the Netflix series "House Of Cards". I didn't think it would be my cup of tea but I gave it a go and was soon hooked. So I painted Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475943644103439977.post-41145467634915519322015-06-18T12:58:00.001-07:002015-06-18T13:06:53.784-07:00Gustav Klimt<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.1999998092651px;">Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) was a Austrian symbolist painter mostly famous for his highly decorative paintings using gold leaf. Initially a very successful conventional painter of portraits and murals, he developed a more controversial and erotic style of painting influenced by Japanese art. I have been a huge fan of his since my teens. I adore the decorative style and the themes of life, sex and death that run through his work, so I decided to paint his portrait for the EBSQ Portrait of an Artist exhibition. </span><br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893050956329360887noreply@blogger.com0