Just fiddling with some little doodles in watercolour, this time it’s one of the windows of Bag End 😉
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Category: Artistic
Killantringan Lighthouse
Last year we visited Killantringan Lighthouse and I took a few snaps intending to use one as a reference for a painting. Then I forgot all about it, well, you know how it goes, things get in the way 😉 anyway, as I was selecting the subject for a new painting at the weekend I was browsing through some photographs and I noticed the lighthouse, so…..
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Decided to do another practice piece to get my eye in and slap some paint around for fun, so I ended up working from a reference image I took a few years ago.
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More stained glass practice… this time it was all joined by lead came rather than copper foil/solder. It proved harder than I thought it would mainly down to a problem with the lead came, the heart of the came was off centre so it ran off at odd angles and made it difficult to hold the glass in place. As it was only a practice piece I carried on rather than order new lead (which I should maybe have done), cementing was interesting and something I need to practice a…
Read MoreThe Dark Side of the Shire
When I saw that this months theme over on John’s website was the Dark Side I was about to start on something from Star Wars. Then I thought there’s more dark sides around that we don’t instantly think about, such as Ted Sandyman, a shady character who ended up helping the wrong side when Saruman popped into the Shire. I decided to play with the doodle in After Effects 😉
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