We stopped by Kinniside Stone Circle the other day for a short wander, it’s years since we’ve been that way but I’m glad we made the trip to see it. Though I didn’t take many photographs, the one posted here will be available soon to purchase in print form, the other images I took this week are still waiting to be processed π Anyway, Kinniside Stone Circle…. I couldn’t remember much about it whilst we were there taking photographs, so I looked it up when we returned home. My knowledge…
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From the Barrow-Downs
Still sketching standing stones, well, it would be rude not to π this time inspired by the standing stones from the Barrow-Downs that Frodo & Co. encountered in the Fellowship of the Ring. This is quite a large piece (22.5″ x 19″) using 2B Wolff’s Carbon Pencil on paper.
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I’ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff’s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They’re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original π I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff’s Carbon pencil and the…
Read MoreWell then…
A few days ago I noticed my website was no longer online, at first I thought they were doing work on the server or they had issues of some sort. Then I noticed that it was only my website which was missing, or more precisely the directory where my website usually resided was no longer there. After a mild session of cursing and some rather colourful language I did some digging. Not only was the directory missing but all the logs which I’d normally trawl through to see who had…
Read MoreThe droid beneath the mask
Working on a ‘Mask’ theme and I decided to try a human(ish) mask which hides the droid beneath π
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