I’ve been trying to get some ideas together for a painting, I know the basic idea of what I want to achieve at the end, it’s the bits that go into it that are causing the problems. So rather than try and sketch out the full scene I’ve been playing with different elements of it. Naturally this led to my mind wandering and I ended up with a couple of Tolkien related sketches 🙂 First one of the Three-Farthings Stone in the Shire – Then there was one of…
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It Came From Space…
….well, actually it came from the garden centre last year, but after photographing the centre of this Poppy I twiddled and tweaked it in Photoshop and the result was something not quite of this World, maybe 😉 And just to prove I do take normal flower photographs…
Read MorePhotoshop Frenzy
Sometimes tweaking an image in Photoshop gets a bit out of hand, but in the end I quite liked the result 🙂 While I was playing with this image I wondered what other images I should have tweaked a little bit more or maybe I should just delete Photoshop from this computer for a while 😉
Read MoreThe Arrow
Whilst out for a bit of a wander this morning I noticed this lump of stone beside the lane, now I’ve walked along this lane nearly every day for a decade or so and never noticed the markings on top of the stone – Now to me, and probably no one else, I immediately spotted an arrow pointing off into the next field. This triggered a few things in my mind, but mainly it started me thinking about who may have carved an arrow in the stone and why. Now,…
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Wandering along the lane this morning I noticed how green everything was looking, but as I noticed the green my mind made a few random jumps – almost like a word association game. From green leaves I jumped to Niggle and from Niggle I jumped obviously to Tolkien and the Shire, and from there I was lost to the realms of fantasy and other lands that are of course not exactly real but are none the less green and pleasant 😉 So, for all those that like a bit of…
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