Graeme Skinner

Arriving at Bag End

Graeme — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:59:41 +0000

Four dwarves arriving at Bag End, straight from the book I may paint them differently in twelve months of course

This was a large watercolour which I stopped and started too many times, lost my way, forgot what I was doing, but I got there in the end (The majority is watercolour, but there’s a touch of gouache, some coloured pencil, and a bit of Photoshop included for good measure).

Morning Magic

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:45:27 +0000

I went down to the River Eden at Langwathby this morning to see how it looked in the moonlight. Mist was rising from the water and the Moon was silhouetted behind the trees on the river bank, the only sound I could hear was a few ducks muttering away on the far bank. Then the ducks stopped their chatter (which was probably the result of me making so much noise getting there), and the mist whipped up surrounding me. It was one of those moments where you feel like you’ve stepped from reality and into fantasy, if some wizard complete with pointy hat had popped up and said hello I don’t think I’d have blinked at that point (okay, I may well have screamed and sprinted back to the car but lets not get too picky). The moment was fleeting though as a truck rumbled over the temporary* bridge behind me pulling me kicking and screaming back to the real world. It was nice to know that fantasy was so close though

Anyway, I took a couple of photographs which is essentially what I went for

*I believe Langwathby Bridge is the longest standing temporary bridge in the Country, built in 1968 it’s not doing too bad

Misty Morning

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:50:25 +0000

Mist in the valley looking out from the window – well, I’d already got cold this morning

Low Cloud

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:04:06 +0000

The light was quite interesting early on (11/1/12) so I took a couple of shots -

Well, I tried to resist it

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:59:05 +0000

But for some reason the camera kept calling me until I took another dawn photograph

Visiting…

Graeme — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:21:43 +0000

We went West to visit my folks and I called down by the harbour for a look at the sea as it’s quite rare for us to get to see it these days -

After five minutes of getting the cobwebs well and truly blasted away we called round to visit my folks and had to take a photograph of one of my Dads latest creations -

You light one of those incense cones, place it underneath and smoke come out of the snowman’s mouth a better form of passive smoking really.

From the Moon to the Hills

Graeme — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:40:17 +0000

Returning home from work I paused for a moment after getting out of the car to take a quick photograph of the Moon hiding in cloud…

A few hours later the cloud pretty much cleared and I snapped a bit of snow on the Pennines.

Appleby at night

Graeme — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:48:19 +0000

A quick photograph of my office taken during a gap in traffic

Moonlit Morning

Graeme — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:00:21 +0000

Went out for a few photographs before the Sun popped up today, quite enjoyed the long exposures with the clouds moving, would have been nice to have had a clearer view of the hills as well though.

Not sure what caused those two lights in front of the cloud on this last photo, didn’t notice anything when I took them, but then I wasn’t looking up there

Early Morning Light

Graeme — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:58:02 +0000