The Weeping Window has been on display at Carlisle Castle for a month now and we have been meaning to get up to see it but something has got in the way every time we planned on going. So yesterday we managed to get up to see it, the weather wasn’t brilliant but it was still nice to see it and wander around the castle walls under the poppies.
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I sat down to draw Beorn from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in his human form meeting Bilbo and Gandalf, so of course I ended up drawing Beorn in bear form, well, these things happen 😉
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I was down by the pond trying to get some photographs of some swans and their cygnets as earlier they’d been swimming around in the sunlight. However when I got there they had decided to take a nap on the grass so I turned my lens to a few smaller flying critters…
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I was reading through the Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist when the Theme of the Month for May popped up on John Howe’s website. So my mind turned to The Grey Towers which is a mountain range in Feist’s world, I did start painting them, and will return to it when time allows. As I was out and about rather than at the easel I ended up sketching The Grey Towers instead.
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We had a week away to recharge batteries and relax for a bit, during our week away we managed a few trips to see new sights and wander for a while in the woods. In the end we visited Staward Gorge which we had driven past numerous times but never stopped at, we walked around for a while in the First of Ae which Hugo really enjoyed 😉 We drove down the top of the Cumbrian Coast wandering down to see the monument to Edward I (Longshanks) who died at…
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