Went to see the la’al swans at Linden Farm House today, couldn’t resist taking a few photos.
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Year: 2023
Gap through the wall
Not had much chance to do anything creative for far too long (or at least that’s how it feels), so I managed a dry stone wall pen & ink piece to relieve the frustration 🙂
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Working towards a Durin’s Stone/Mirrormere painting, I enjoyed Celebdil, Fanuidhol, Caradhras (though one wasn’t as defined as I wanted it to be ;-)). The Dimrill Stair was somewhere I could have spent a week or two, then the foreground was a bit of a trial. The reflection in Mirrormere was put in using Photoshop in the end and I also added a bit of mist at that point. Looking forward to trying this scene in a larger format in oil, though I need to sketch Durin’s Stone a few more times…
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Playing with type, heads not working well enough to go to the workshop, and watercolour board is too expensive to play with 😉 I had a list of Douglas Adams quotes somewhere I was going to play around with, not sure where it went to, it’ll be carefully filed somewhere 😉
Read MoreFirst of the year
I had some pieces of cherry wood that needed to be used for something, so I had a play 😉
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