When I think of the phrase “head in the clouds” my mind turns to mountains with their tops disappearing into cloud. This afternoon I sat down to sketch a mountain or two with their tops hidden by cloud, but which mountain to sketch…
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Stranded
It’s nice to live in a rural location, and it would be hard to imagine living in a town after spending so much time looking out over the green fields of the Eden Valley. However there are times when I question the sanity of it.
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The first new growth for 2009 is coming through, it’s a good time of year…
Read MoreGetting Lost
I’ve been planning a painting, and it’s driving me mad!
Read MoreTime 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…
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