Sat down to sketch a quick pub sign and for some reason ended up with this. Gandalf found Valinor a bit on the quiet side for his liking, and so he decided to open an inn. Planning permission was a little difficult to come by and in the end he had to put the inn down the end of a lane in a remote corner. The only pubs Gandalf could remember were the Prancing Pony of Bree and of course the Green Dragon which he was banned from for reasons…
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Short stories and other scribblings…
Station 3
This is going to look a little odd, but stay with me a moment 😉 I had a random idea for an illustration to submit to the Wanderers theme over at john-howe.com – Now the idea was fairly simple in my little head, but needed a little bit of an explanation. I tried a couple of times to write a simple piece to go with it and ended up more frustrated than satisfied with the outcome, and so I decided to write a short story to accompany the illustration. I…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Gate
A sketch that really got out of hand, the Forgotten Gate 😉 You wander down an old cobbled road, passing on the way a row of grand looking houses with well tended gardens stretching out in front of them. Slowly the grand houses give way to smaller houses that are in need of some T.L.C., their small gardens are overgrown with long grass and weed and the cobbled road is in need of repair. The smaller houses end as does the cobbled road and in front of you there is…
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A little bit more on the airship theme, after this one it’s a more serious bit of watercolour work on the agenda 😉 So, following on from this piece I wondered how the airship would work if it were included into a children’s book, the only way to find out was to rough up a page from the book 🙂
Read MoreYou have to wonder
What happens inside your head at times, for March the theme of the month that I’m working on is Airships. For some reason my mind turned this into Hairships, which are of course ships which carry hair to wig makers :-/ well what else would they do with it. Any sailor worth is salt will tell you, if you want to make some easy money go to the Willwurd Isles, the daily routine was to sail round the various ports basking all the while under the Caribbean Sun collecting bags…
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