For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…
Read MoreMonth: March 2013
A few days in Fife
We’d decided to take a short break in Fife to recharge the batteries and celebrate my 21st birthday. So, we made a few arrangements and got ourselves ready for the trip, then it snowed. It didn’t look particularly heavy but our car has issues with a light dusting of snow and we had a few twisty roads to negotiate, the worst parts would be getting off our hill, and getting the cat to the cattery. So, as the council tend to ignore our roads for 99.9% of the year we…
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We had a wander down to St Ninian’s this morning and took a photograph or two 😉
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Standing in the garden this morning listening to the birds welcome the dawn you could almost feel the season gradually change around you. It would be nice if the better weather hurried up just a little but still this morning was nice to watch the light change for just a while before running inside to warm up with a coffee 😉
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