A few visitors on the pond…
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Author: Graeme Skinner
Murder
Quick doodle in Photoshop…
Read MoreKinniside Stone Circle
We stopped by Kinniside Stone Circle the other day for a short wander, it’s years since we’ve been that way but I’m glad we made the trip to see it. Though I didn’t take many photographs, the one posted here will be available soon to purchase in print form, the other images I took this week are still waiting to be processed 😉 Anyway, Kinniside Stone Circle…. I couldn’t remember much about it whilst we were there taking photographs, so I looked it up when we returned home. My knowledge…
Read MoreFrom the Barrow-Downs
Still sketching standing stones, well, it would be rude not to 😉 this time inspired by the standing stones from the Barrow-Downs that Frodo & Co. encountered in the Fellowship of the Ring. This is quite a large piece (22.5″ x 19″) using 2B Wolff’s Carbon Pencil on paper.
Read MoreSketching The Stones
I’ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff’s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They’re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original 😉 I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff’s Carbon pencil and the…
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