Author: Graeme Skinner

Niggle would approve.

Graeme Skinner

I started sketching a tree for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website, it was supposed to be a quick simple sketch, then I got too the branches. The good intentions of a quick doodle to get in the right frame of mind went out the window and I started to become a little obsessive over the branches, I ended up doodling away at each little branch ignoring pretty much everything else. However, I get the feeling I need to obsess over the branches of the next…

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Diverting

Graeme Skinner

Driving home from my last night shift of the week and the sunrise was really distracting, the desire to sleep was pushed aside by the desire to take a photograph or two. A short distance from work the Sun was already poking above the Pennines but there was little in the foreground that was working so I carried on resigned to the fact that it wasn’t working today. Then I realised that as I went down towards the river Eden the Sun wouldn’t be as high in the sky so…

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Wizards go a wandering

Graeme Skinner

Trying to get ideas together for a painting, or maybe I should just say doodling for inspiration 😉 Anyway, this is a digital doodle of the two blue wizards briefly mentioned by Tolkien and pondered about by many ever since 🙂 Not happy with the first wizards colour, well it may grow on me, and perhaps I should change one of the hats….. first of all though I’ll collapse and sleep for an hour or three.

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