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…
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High Snockrigg (again)
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.
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….hopefully a few more to go 😉
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 🙂 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 😉 And just to prove I do take normal flower photographs…
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