I was trying to think of a painting for the theme of the month which is Airships over on the John Howe website. And I was thinking (if you can call it that), what if Tolkien before he wrote the Council of Elrond scene had watched a few hot air balloons fly by, perhaps he’d have sent the ring South by balloon instead of with the fellowship on foot. Elrond looked annoyed and the other members of the council shuffled in their seats. “Look,” said Frodo, “I’m not saying I…
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Brain fade
Okay, I forgot to post these misty images from the other day :-/
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This morning we needed to go to the shop for some dog food, so rather than wait until the shops were packed we had an early run out. When we left the shop we decided to drive the long way home 😉 The cloud was very low over the Pennines but the light was breaking through in odd places giving quite a nice effect, so I had to take a couple of photographs… For some reason this next photograph makes me want to draw hill with a golden hall upon…
Read MoreThree Farthing Stone
A quick sketch from today, it felt like I’d not visited the Shire for far too long so here we have two random Hobbits pausing by the Three Farthing Stone 🙂
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This morning I decided to rattle off a quick watercolour, it was another standing stone painting to go with a short story I had in mind. So, after splashing some paint about for a while I decided to write the text to go with it…. in hindsight I should have made a few notes as to what the story was about other than a bloke standing with a flaming torch in front of a large standing stone at night. Maybe the story will come back to me when I least…
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