Apologia

I must start this post with a heartfelt and sincere apology. To all those who find the lighter side of fantasy art offensive you maybe should stop reading now, and to those who think you should never be over influenced by another illustration then you’re really not going to like this 😉 Okay, the explanation…. I was trying to come up with an idea for animals in armour as this is the theme over on John Howe’s website. So I sketched a few chickens in armour, and tried to think…

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Fur-sunnud

My morning was pretty much planned, sketch some ideas which had been niggling away at me and then paint. I did eventually sketch a few ideas, but first I was a little distracted by taking photographs of the Sun. After taking a few single shots I snapped a couple of panoramic sequences and made them zoomable 😉 A while later I tried out the solar filter I’d bought to photograph the transit of Venus (which I missed due to cloud cover ;-)), a few Sunspots are visible and it was…

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