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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Green
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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A slight departure from my usual stuff I suppose but this morning I decided to play with some Derwent pencils for a while. Rather than use them as I normally do, to sketch out a rough idea before painting, I decided to complete a drawing with them on a nice piece of crisp white Bristol paper. Another slight departure was the subject matter. The weather outside was rather wet and windy when I started so a reference photograph was good solution, the one chosen was taken last week at Buttermere…
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I wasn’t happy with the dragon I painted the other day link so, there was only one thing for it. Either I try to ignore it and hope the colour and shape of the dragon would grow on me over time, or I could paint a new dragon. Hopefully this new dragon fits the scene a little better, it certainly doesn’t annoy me like the first version.
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Okay, a little background first, some time ago on the evil that is Facebook (which I obviously visit most days ;-)) John Howe posted a photograph with the comment “Speaking of dragons… it wouldn’t take a lot to transform those rocks on the left into something with scales, heading back into the sea.” A few comments later and it became “What if we all use this image as reference and see what we come up with?” After reading these and other comments I decided I’d give it a go with…
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