Started off doodling on a large sheet of paper to practice some sketching techniques, and the doodle grew and grew until I finished off a drawing of Castlerigg Stone Circle – normally I just focus on a stone or two so completing the full circle is unusual for me 😉
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It’s practice time, so I’ve been painting colours, skies, grass, clouds, washes…. and I got the point where I had to do something a bit more real. So I rattled out a quick practice painting 😉
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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 😉
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….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.
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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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