I forgot the camera this morning (or rather my head wasn’t in ‘thinking mode’ when I set off for work at 0500hrs), anyway, the mist and light was too good to miss and so I took a snap on my phone π
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In reflection
We had a run down Ullswater way fairly early on as the weather looked good and with it being a Sunday the roads would soon get busy, it was lucky we did set off early as the reflections were looking particularly clear. We then continued on to Hallin Fell for a wander. And of course Hugo was happy to be out in the Fells again π
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I had a little play with Painter 12 and sketched my eye for the theme of the month at john-howe.com Once I’d sketched the eye I started to think it would be interesting to try and sketch something digitally similar to something you’d see in ye olde country manor with the ‘gent’ posing alongside his hound π
Read MoreI missed the mist
I set off early this morning after dropping Julie off at work and went in search of some mist filled valleys. For a bit of a change I headed towards Ullswater but the mist wasn’t inspiring (or even there in some places) so I took a quick shot of a duck coming in to land π then moved on. Undecided which way to go I headed off towards Martindale as it was a long time since I’d been that way and went for a wander up a fell π Any…
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Last month I started on a painting of Niggle working away, it was for the theme of the month over at John Howe’s website. The theme was ‘The Bestest Book Ever – Imagine this is your dream commission, the book you’ve ALWAYS wanted to do a cover for.‘ So an illustration of Niggle was an obvious one for me to attempt. Sadly it was overtaken by real life events and I could not fit in any spare time to splash paint around, the month was gone all to quickly and…
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