A few photographs from this morning –
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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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*well I hope not anyway 😉 I decided to leave the house a bit earlier than usual in order to watch the Sun rise. It was quite nice to spend a quiet moment down by the river watching the mist swirl above it. Once the Sun appeared it was time to vanish off to work, though I did stop a couple of times to see how the mist filled the valley below.
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I had a wander around Penrith cemetery today as I wanted to take some reference photographs. While I was there I noticed the light playing across some of the stones and statues and ended up spending quite a while there 😉
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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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