Trying to get ideas together for a painting, or maybe I should just say doodling for inspiration 😉 Anyway, this is a digital doodle of the two blue wizards briefly mentioned by Tolkien and pondered about by many ever since 🙂 Not happy with the first wizards colour, well it may grow on me, and perhaps I should change one of the hats….. first of all though I’ll collapse and sleep for an hour or three.
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A quick(ish) oil painting of Alatar and Pallando’s wizarding kit when they stopped by for a visit. I’ve not used oil paints in ages so this was more of an experiment to remind myself how things work as much as anything.
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This morning I popped round by Long Meg, mainly because I needed a reference photo or two for a painting I’m planning. When I returned home I started playing with one of the photographs on the computer and ended up making a print of it 😉
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The only benefit I can see for working silly hours is the sights you see driving too and from work. My journey home this morning was quiet (as most sensible folk were in bed), and the views inspiring. I almost wish I didn’t need to sleep so I could get to painting a misty Shire scene, as it is I’ll post the photographs from my drive home and then crash out for a few hours.
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We went in search of the sea at Southport, however it was low tide so we ended up walking and walking and the sea was always out of reach. Quite a long way out of reach actually, we stopped walking after a mile and a half deciding to return when the tide was in again. I did like this image of Julie wandering towards the Sun so made it into a print 😉
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