Graeme Skinner » painting http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Sometimes a rambling mind needs an outlet Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:54:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Painting Niggle http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2010/07/painting-niggle/ http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2010/07/painting-niggle/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:02:31 +0000 Graeme http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=558 Trying to think of painting leaves without thinking about Niggle (as in Niggle from Tree & Leaf by J. R. R. Tolkien) and his tree is almost impossible for me, and so when I saw the theme of the month was Into the Green over at John Howe’s website my mind turned to Niggle and what he would paint. For some reason I did not want to paint his tree, or a segment of it, but illustrate him painting part of the tree. I probably spent more time on the leaves than I should have done, but it was quite a fun painting to do so I’m not complaining ;-)

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A3 Watercolour.

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Rivendell & wandering

I have in the back of my mind an idea to paint Rivendell in oil on a huge canvas, to do this I need a few things to happen. I need to earn enough money so that we can live in Lauterbrunnen for a month or two, and of course I have to develop the confidence to tackle the painting ;-) for now I’ll keep sketching ideas…

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Oh yes, I feel like a wander in some remote hills too ;-)

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]]> http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2010/07/wc-17/feed/ 0 More Loneliness http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2010/02/more-loneliness/ http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2010/02/more-loneliness/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:31:34 +0000 Graeme http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=203 Okay, I had to have another go at the Lonely Mountain, I’m still not convinced about what I’ve done and feel there are parts which are okay and others that are just plain wrong :-) Before I start the next version I may build it in clay to see how it looks in three dimensions, the river is not bubbling enough, it needs some more rocks and life about it. Anyway, this version is done with for now…

The Lonely Mountain Again!

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So I hope very soon to have time to paint and perhaps a little time to write something – when I say write something I don’t mean a paragraph or two here, I mean a chapter or two of something new ;-)

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