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In my experience, when I display a drawing or something I've created to someone, either via social media, but more often in person the...
Pete Gillespie
Jun 19, 20203 min read
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To Illustrate the Point
For many, there appears to be something of a division if you look at the work I produce, a line in the sand that seperates one approach...
Pete Gillespie
Jun 3, 20202 min read
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Sticking it to the man.
It would be fair to say that as a business man and entrepreneur I suck massively. Sales, pricing, advertising...all of that stuff, the...
Pete Gillespie
May 21, 20202 min read
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Brilliant!....who is it?
Confession time....I hate doing caricatures. Loathe them, detest....am.... not..... partial! I've done quite a few of them, but they are...
Pete Gillespie
May 11, 20202 min read
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What's in a name?
If I have a 'most popular' commission....and I use that phrase cautiously, it would be the paintings I produce of peoples names with an...
Pete Gillespie
May 10, 20201 min read
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Surrounded by Hills and Valleys.
For the first quarter of my teaching career, that inconvenient mortgage paying distraction to total world creative domination, I taught...
Pete Gillespie
May 4, 20202 min read
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Gotta Paint 'Em All.
I had mentioned previously that being locked inside for weeks on end isn't the total nightmare for me it would appear to be for many...
Pete Gillespie
Apr 28, 20201 min read
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Been a long time since I rock 'n' rolled.
See! See!!..2 posts in 2 days. The very model of consistency. I'm writing this in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a tad...
Pete Gillespie
Apr 22, 20202 min read
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I'm a Bad Person
Okay, not really that bad in the grand scheme, not biblical levels or anything, more lazy bad, than crazy bad. Perhaps *'biblical levels'...
Pete Gillespie
Apr 21, 20202 min read
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On the watch
One of 2 commissions for my cousin Brian, who was retiring from the fire brigade after a long and illustrious career putting out fires,...
Pete Gillespie
Sep 10, 20191 min read
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Hirsute you sir.
So, for the second year running I've had some work accepted for the Sock Gallery Open Exhibition 2019 at Loughborough town hall. The...
Pete Gillespie
Aug 7, 20192 min read
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Of Dogs and Monsters...
Perhaps my favourite request is for illustrated names. The name in question was James, the clients very young son, and I was asked to...
Pete Gillespie
Aug 1, 20191 min read
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Blog with a Catchy Title....
I couldn't actually think of one - Blog Eat Blog, Blog of Eternal Stench, One Man and his Blog...all garbage. Anywho, I was aware that my...
Pete Gillespie
Jul 31, 20191 min read
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