Many moons ago whilst playing with type I worked on the quote from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings “Dark have been my dreams of late”, but it bugged me, or at least when I see the image it doesn’t look right to me. Not sure why but it just wasn’t right at all. So, this morning as I had a few things to do I decided to ignore everything else and play with type for a while. Still not sure if I’ve got it right but I know it’s getting…
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Laurelin
I’ve been pondering the Two Trees from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion lately, or I should say I’ve been pondering how they would look and what form they would take – not only that I’ve been pondering how much light there would have been to see them by, the quality of the light…. In fact I’ve been pondering far too much 😉 Anyway, I thought this passage “…as they watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots; and silence was over all the world in that hour, nor…
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Well, it takes me time to finish a watercolour these days, mainly because I find I’ve a thousand and one other things to do in a day. Anyway, I’ve been working on this Lake District landscape for a while now, and I’m calling it finished 😉 actually I’m calling it finished until I decide whether to do any more to it or not.
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Blencathra, topped with a touch of snow and a bit of cloud….
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The theme of the month over on John Howe’s website was Fiat Lux “Light should be the focus of the theme, whether it’s shadows, flames, rising or setting suns or distant stars. Lots of possibilities, from Prometheus bringing fire to mankind to the lovely shadow cast by an object from the lamp on your table…” So, I wondered how little light was required to illustrate a scene – more specifically if I could get away with using as little light as possible. Turns out it is quite difficult at times…
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