Far too many years ago we met Peter Lloyd at a woodworking show and bought his book (link), one of the projects in it has appealed to me for some time but I never had the opportunity to attempt it. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was thinking of making a gift for a friend and the writing slope from the book sprang to mind, the design changed a bit from the one in the book but that’s just how it goes sometimes. The majority of the…
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Driving to one of the locations I work has a particular point where I pause if I have time, the only reason I pause is down to the way the trees and grass for a perfect window onto the landscape beyond.
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I started a pen & ink drawing of Rannerdale Knotts as it’s a view I’ve not tried before. So obviously I picked up the watercolours for this pen & ink 😉 anyway, after a bit of splashing paint around I had finished and wasn’t to annoyed by the result which was a nice change. I took a quick scan of it then went to work. Now I look at it on the computer I’m not sure why I thought it was okay, time to go back to the drawing board…
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I sat down to practice some watercolour techniques, so it was only logical that I taped a piece of paper to the board and started a pen and ink drawing with a Tolkien theme 😉 I was going to add a colour tint but decided to leave it as it is.
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Another memory box, this time out of Ash and Cherry, with a touch of Walnut (okay, Ash sides, Cherry lid, and Walnut wedges). *Title stolen from Red Dwarf 😉
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