…and a few others 😉 For a while I’ve been looking for a reading chair, somewhere to sit away from distractions, where I can pull a good book from the shelf and sit back and just read. We searched all the usual places, and we searched a few unusual places. Then we hit the internet and searched there for suitable chairs, we didn’t find anything modern that fit the bill. Then we struck on the idea of a William Morris inspired chair, we refined our search and found nothing really…
Read MoreMonth: August 2015
Mist again
Driving home from a night shift the mist was rising in the valley below, I had the camera with me and I managed a little pause from the drive to take a photo…
Read MoreA Hobbits Deco Pipe
This month over on the John Howe forum the theme of the month is Deco… ..adding beauty to function. While the functional aspect of the object remains, the representational side of ti is considered as an art form in itself. So I decided to paint a Hobbit’s pipe which had been carved with an ivy leaf pattern around the bowl.
Read MoreCloud and grey skies
Given it is supposed to be summer we’ve had far too many cloudy grey sky days recently. I’d been hoping for some nice summer days to get out with the camera and sketch book, and whilst there have been some nice days they’ve been too few for my liking 😉 So, given the weather wasn’t playing nice I decided to make the best of it and try to use the clouds and patchy light to my advantage.
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