Quick painting while I get my brain in order, and as I was still wandering around Weathertop anyway 😉 ‘The stroke on the left might be a G-rune with thin branches,’ said Strider. ‘It might be a sign left by Gandalf, though one cannot be sure.
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I’ve been looking for Weathertop for a while now, trying to get the landscape fixed in my mind so I can then get it down on paper. After one or two (actually a few more) sketches I thought I’d try a colour study. So, here’s my latest attempt at Weathertop…
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My ongoing obsession with painting Rivendell, based on Lauterbrunnen, continues 😉 This is version number…. okay I’ve stopped counting, the previous version I finished early December last year is still in the file marked ‘what was I thinking’. What I really need to do in order to paint Rivendell as I see it in my head is to learn French, take six months off work, then move into Lauterbrunnen with a few sketch pads and a gallon or two of paint.
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Being a bit nerdy at times I decided to make a colour graph of the temperature recordings we’d taken over the year, for each day the colour graduates between the maximum and minimum temperature recorded, the barometric reading for the days has been overlayed. As it’s a bit small to view on this webpage I put a larger version here, there’s also one with rain and wind speeds on here.
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