Following the sketch of High Snockrigg and Others (link) I decided to try a small watercolour of the scene. It became a little frustrating not getting chance to properly do all the trees as I kept pausing to do other things, next time I may do the smaller trees differently, but generally I thought the result was acceptable.
Read MoreMonth: June 2011
365 down….
….hopefully a few more to go π
Read MoreWandering Mind
I’ve been trying to get some ideas together for a painting, I know the basic idea of what I want to achieve at the end, it’s the bits that go into it that are causing the problems. So rather than try and sketch out the full scene I’ve been playing with different elements of it. Naturally this led to my mind wandering and I ended up with a couple of Tolkien related sketches π First one of the Three-Farthings Stone in the Shire – Then there was one of…
Read MoreIt Came From Space…
….well, actually it came from the garden centre last year, but after photographing the centre of this Poppy I twiddled and tweaked it in Photoshop and the result was something not quite of this World, maybe π And just to prove I do take normal flower photographs…
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