I decided to try and make an oak box without any metal fixings, well, why not 😉 made a few mistakes along the way and there’s still some fettling to do but I’m happy with the result so far. The wood hinges were interesting to make, and I’d probably do them differently next time.
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There was an off cut of watercolour board lying around, it looked the perfect size for a painting of Castlerigg Stone Circle.
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After painting the fantastical world as recorded by J.R.R.T. for a while I decided to return to something a bit more local. It’s been quite a while since I wandered over Haystacks in the Lake District so I opted to paint it 😉
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I decided to play with a carbon pencil for a change, and ended up doodling Long Meg, it was quite enjoyable to do something different for a while.
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I came up with this idea of painting scenes from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with the night sky as it would actually appear on that date and time, so I went through LOTRs and marked up all the references to when the night sky was visible, there’s quite a few references 😉 Anyway, I decided for the first illustration to work out how the sky would have looked as the left Bag End, then I painted the scene – the sky took far too long, then,…
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