It’s strange how the mind works, I started sketching a sea arch, though I don’t know why π anyway, the rocks kept growing and the sketch changed from a sea scene to Gandalf starting one of his dark journeys…
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Imladris
I’ve been pondering Rivendell, or mainly the architecture of the main building, the only way I could really get it sorted in my head was to try and paint it. I had more fun doing the cliffs than the building itself – but that’s the way things go sometimes. I ended up using photoshop to correct a couple of bits of landscape and add some more mist.
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It’s horsey time for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website, or rather it’s Saddle Up – as I’m not brilliant at drawing horses I opted for a more graphical approach and decided to try and paint some flags on display many years after the Return of the King π I started off painting this in watercolour but it didn’t go well so went digital…
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Another room with a view, this time the room is one of my work locations…
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This month’s theme over on John Howe’s website is ‘A Room with a View’… After all the many months of confinement, semi-confinement and other lockdowns, have you ever found yourself staring out the window and imagining a different vista? (Not that there is necessarily wrong with that familiar view, mind you, but a little variety would be nice.) So, this is your chance. Imagine where you are, imagine a window, then imagine the view. Perhaps it’s a view on the past, or the future, or another world… You’ll see… For…
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