Trawling through photos in search of a hand to draw, I came across this shot of Jean taken outside The Black Garden tattoo parlour in Central London in 2013. At the time I was very much opposed to cropping photos, but I think this one benefits. Anyway, thanks for the shot Jean.
Back to searching for suitable hands…
About a week ago, I ran into Sophie and Hara. And they were great about me taking a few shots of them (fighting the sunshine). This is the last shot I took and it’s my favourite. Thanks very much Sophie and Hara!
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If you are interested in seeing more street portraits, there are a lot of them on this blog (just click on the tag in the tag cloud) and some on my Instagram here and a selection on my website here.
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In early October 2019 David Cook and I visited Peter Doig: Paintings at Michael Werner, and Cy Twombly: Sculpture at Gagosian, both in London. Afterwards, we discussed the shows by email. You can read the resulting conversation starting here.
So my lucky streak continues…I ran into Tariq today, and he was great about me taking a few shots of him. This is the fifth and my favourite. Thanks very much Tariq!
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If you are interested in seeing more street portraits, there are tons of them on this blog or you can visit my Instagram here or my website here.
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In early October 2019 David Cook and I visited Peter Doig: Paintings at Michael Werner, and Cy Twombly: Sculpture at Gagosian, both in London. Afterwards, we discussed the shows by email. You can read the resulting conversation starting here.
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One of the great things about 2020 so far is I seem to have rekindled my interest in photographing people. An even greater thing is that I ran into Rakia yesterday.
We made 8-10 shots together around London Bridge and these are my favourites…
The photographs work as well in colour as they do in black and white. But I tend to favour the monochrome.
You can visit Rakia’s Instagram here: @rakiamoctar
Thanks very much Rakia!
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If you are interested in seeing more street portraits, digital constructs and paintings visit my Instagram here or my website here.
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In the last few days I’ve been experimenting with converting portaits I originally presented in colour on TFIPM to black and white. This was partly to test Ted Grant’s adage. Above is the new processed main portrait of Yozmit, and below the original.
Back in 2013 I must have preferred the colour version as a true representation of Yozmit’s style. Today I like the inkiness of the new version.
The original post featuring Yozmit can be found here.
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Around 2013 I wanted to show my portraits alongside abstract paintings. For all sorts of reasons (one being I didn’t know that many abstract painters) it didn’t happen, so I started trying to imagine and make the kind of abstracts that might work with street portraits. Seven years later, I think I’m beginning to find stuff.
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If you want to see other work, visit my Instagram here or my website here.
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Improvisation has begun on the painting I mentioned in this post.
Image transfer got to a point where I was satisfied and away we go…I’ve also been using improvised paper stencils to open up areas of the composition…more on this soon.
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To see more please visit my website: https://richardguest.art/ or my Instagram account:
@richardguest9440
I’m currently working on this painting, which I’m toying with the idea of calling The Cacotopic Stain after a geographical area featured in a brilliant book by China Méiville entitled Iron Council.
The painting is based on a monochrome digital construct, which I’m transferring to canvas using acrylic paint and one paintbrush…
Once the image transfer is complete, I will improvise areas of colour and images on top. It’s a method I’ve adopted for the last couple of paintings. If you want to see more please visit my website: https://richardguest.art/ or my Instagram account:
@richardguest9440
It’s been a while, but last Friday I went out with the intention of taking some photographs in the street and dropping in on Tate Modern.
Whilst I’m always on the lookout for a potential portrait, most of my time is spent collecting images of splats, scuffs, drips and abandoned carrier bags to form the basis of a digital construct.
The following were all taken last Friday…
In Tate Modern, I decided to concentrate on paintings in the main displays. I’ve been familiar with The Three Dancers by Picasso for decades, but I’ve never really looked at the surface of the painting close up.
I found this area:
fascinating. I guess I’ve always thought of Picasso paintings springing into the world fully-formed, but he obviously had problems resolving this patch…
This was my first time seeing White Plane White, 1974 by Bram Bogart as well, but I’m glad I did…
In one of the rooms housing a large sculpture, I found the following stain. It must have been quite a hardcore chemical to have bleached the stone floor like this. Anyway, I love it…
The stain’s got me thinking…
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To see more of my paintings, street portraits and digital constructs, please visit my website: https://richardguest.art/ or my Instagram account:
@richardguest9440
Hello all, for those of you that don’t know, I’ve opened an Instagram account, which I use to post works in progress and highlights from my street portrait project. The latest addition is Ally from 2013. Thanks Ally!
The account is: @richardguest9440
A few more recent entries…
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My Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CityStories is open, where you can find greetings cards and prints.
The Future Is Papier Mâché 