On our trip over the border we were lucky enough to have a couple of nights where the sky was amazing clear, it would have been wrong not to take a couple of photographs 😉
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Year: 2019
War Dog
It’s an armour theme this month over on John Howe’s website, and I had intended doing a fairly sensible pen & ink piece, so how I came to paint this ‘war dog’ I have no idea. Hugo wasn’t too keen to model for it but luckily it didn’t take too long to paint 😉
Read MoreNational Memorial Arboretum
A few photographs from the National Memorial Arboretum – link.
Read MoreYou’ve got to hand it to them….
….those folk that make cyborgs are really handy with a soldering iron 😉 Maybe this one should be called “things you do whilst waiting for paint to dry”. Another submission for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website.
Read MoreStarting Again
A while ago I started a painting which was supposed to be Gandalf leading Bilbo and the Dwarves through the mountains. The background went fine which is unusual for me, then the rock faces didn’t work out too badly. Then I added Gandalf and I didn’t like it, I added more rain, more clouds, tints, hints… nothing worked for me, so there’s only one things for it. I’ll have to go back to drawing board 😉 Next time I’ll go a bit darker, with a bit more cloud, for now…
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