Author: Colin Slater – artist
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6.3.13 ‘When will you make an end?’ ‘When I am finished!’ Not an impassioned plea from Iain Erskine, but Rex Harrison speaking to Charlton Heston in ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’. Not a film about drug use, but a drama illustrating the relationship between Pope Julius II and Michelangelo during the painting of the Sistine…
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5.3.13 I’ve now reached the tricky bit, making final decisions and pulling the composition together. Today I’ve been working with the child figures, tomorrow will be the turn of the army of Lilliputians. As with any painting I need to be sure that the composition has reached its peak before I can allow it to…
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4.3.13 Many years ago I was talking to a chum about the renovation project we were about to undertake after moving into our home, which we bought in a very dilapidated state. The place required a serious makeover, and because of the cost we had no choice but to do the bulk of it ourselves.…
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1.3.13 Today Fulbridge School became an Academy without a new sign above their entrance, but with black paint now on my brush I’m entering the end game. Large lettering has been the object of my attention and Monday will be more of the same. Then, it’s the army of Lilliputians to tackle, two large figures to…
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22.2.13 ‘Drippin’ on my boots…………….tryin’ to paint me some roots’ Five weeks since the delivery of the boards and ask me to suggest a completion date, I’d still struggle to commit to one. Another week? Maybe. Perhaps two. Difficult to say. I’m not near the painting I have in my head yet but nonetheless today…
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21.2.13 ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs……………….then probably you’ve underestimated the seriousness of the situation!’ – Jean Kerr (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies) There are many areas of the painting still to resolve so another 9 hour studio session, but a welcome means of blotting out the perilous…
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19.2.13 ‘Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be, we’re going to Barns-sa-lee, Que Sera Sera’ A song from the Molineux terraces last season, and which becomes a reality tonight. It feels like a Cup Final too, which is a reflection of our dreadful position. A crunch match if ever there was one which could…