Quick photo from this morning, I’m not very mobile so couldn’t get far :-/
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A few photographs from my wander through the local woods.
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Or, Oh No I turned an Ent! This morning I decided to start sorting out the new workshop, it’s not the most exciting of jobs but needed doing. After a while of moving boxes of tools, stacking wood….. I put the lathe together and found a suitable place for it. Then I wondered if it still worked as it had been a while since it turned anything. Satisfied that it started I then wondered if the chisels were sharp 😉 This is a piece of Sapele otherwise known as Entandrophragma…
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An idea that Julie suggested I attempt (though it turned out she meant me to paint this in watercolour rather than digital :-/) So her is ‘into the wood’…
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This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we’d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn’t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a…
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