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Changing

The first new growth for 2009 is coming through, it’s a good time of year…
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Getting Lost

I’ve been planning a painting, and it’s driving me mad!

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Time for a dragon (I)

I’m starting on a few days/weeks of drawing and painting dragons; I like dragons, well as long as they’re not sitting in the garden trying to burn down the house. Anyway, I’ve read the required manual on dragon creation (Forging Dragons, by John Howe) and I have scribbled in the margin of a few pages so I am fully prepared for dragon creation :-)

There are a couple of reasons that I want to paint my dragon, first of all there is the theme of the month to work on over at John Howe’s website ;-) and then there is a dragon to draw for the logo of La Communauté Fantastique. I’ll post the sketches and work in progress pictures when I have some.

My Mind’s Eye

This is a poem my Mam wrote when my Grandfather had Alzheimer’s.
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Trying hard

I’m not an artist, that’s not to say I don’t keep trying. Recently I’ve been reading Dante’s Inferno in order to illustrate a couple of scenes from it- it’s all the fault of the Theme of the Month over at john-howe.com and consequently I’ve been having visions of hell wherever I look.
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In the third person…
Someone suggested I write something about myself 'in the third person' to head up this column, but what do you write? Perhaps it would be better if someone else really did write this part - so if you know me feel free to write my introduction ;-)
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