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Silly Time
February 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: I decided to complete a quick pen & ink piece to get my eye and hand back into doing things. So I thought a quick submission for the theme of the month over at John Howe’s website was in order. This months theme is Head in the Clouds which is handy for someone living in Cumbria, I mean, we have our fair share of clouds to use as reference pieces 
Anyway, not having time to complete a serious study of clouds, I scribbled something a bit quicker, first of all I completed the pen & ink version…
I then thought to myself, hmmm perhaps I should colour this pen & ink piece…..
I was nearly finished tinting the piece in Photoshop when Julie pointed out I’d spent around three times longer in Photoshop than I did with the pen & ink 
Now I need to do something a bit more serious.
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Misty Mornings
Many years ago around this time of year I would love to grab the camera, tripod and a few rolls of film before vanishing into the hills for a few hours; I’d love the crisp morning air, the light glinting off the Fell tops and those perfect reflections in the lakes. Misty mornings were a nightmare, gone where the clean defined lines that I loved to photograph, reflections were lost to the blurring swirling mists, a misty morning in those days was one to leave the camera behind and get lost in a good book. So what in the intervening years has changed? Read the rest of this entry »
In search of Gandalf
I’m after a bit of input from Tolkien readers to help me with a blog/text I’m writing on Gandalf. So if you’ve read either the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings please spare five minutes to answer a couple of questions…
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So, what do you paint?
A number of times recently people have asked me how I like to fill my time, to which I respond that I like to paint, every time they’ve asked the same question “so, what do you paint?” In the past this has been an easy question to answer, I paint landscapes, but do I? Read the rest of this entry »
Stop Motion silliness ;-)
We decided to play around with some stop motion, it’s not something we’ve tried before but it was just a bit of fun.
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