I was reading through the Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist when the Theme of the Month for May popped up on John Howe’s website. So my mind turned to The Grey Towers which is a mountain range in Feist’s world, I did start painting them, and will return to it when time allows. As I was out and about rather than at the easel I ended up sketching The Grey Towers instead.
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We had a week away to recharge batteries and relax for a bit, during our week away we managed a few trips to see new sights and wander for a while in the woods. In the end we visited Staward Gorge which we had driven past numerous times but never stopped at, we walked around for a while in the First of Ae which Hugo really enjoyed 😉 We drove down the top of the Cumbrian Coast wandering down to see the monument to Edward I (Longshanks) who died at…
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Popped out with the camera to take a few snow reference images, the Pennines were looking nice with a covering of snow, sadly I didn’t have a sledge to hand.
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I have a for a while been tinkering with a digital piece for the theme of the month ‘competition’ over on John Howe‘s website, the them Dawn’s Early Light was one that appealed to me but the digital piece really wasn’t working out as I wanted it to. For some reason the line from Lord of the Rings kept going through my head “Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,” so I decided to play with type instead of banging my head against the wall with the failing digital…
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There was a bit of snow lying around yesterday so I popped out with the camera for a while, I ended up taking a few tree based contrasty shots, going through them afterwards this one caught my eye so I made it into a print 😉
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