The other day I was sitting and thinking what scene from the Hobbit I would find niggling if it had been missed from the latest film. So, I flicked through the book and my mind turned to the scene with Bilbo returning home as it really was ‘back again’. I’d planned to paint the scene, but in the end pen & ink won for speed. I won’t comment as to whether the scene is in the film, you’ll have to watch it for yourself to find out π
Read MoreMonth: December 2014
Watching the weather
The weather has been quite changeable the last few days, well, it’s changed between cold and colder π anyway, I was watching the clouds the other day and popped out to take a particularly impressive band as it rolled over. A couple of days later and the frost was thick on the ground, having just worked a night shift I wasn’t able to take as many photographs as I’d have liked but managed one π
Read MoreIn the Shire
I was planning to work on a large illustration from Tolkien’s Middle Earth, however things kept going wrong and I was becoming more and more frustrated, so I decided to make a quick visit to the Shire with my watercolours to relax.
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