We woke this morning to clear(ish) skies and mist filling the valley below, the combination of mist and pre-dawn light was calling “come and play…” but the need to work and pay bills called louder. As a compromise I set off early in the hope of grabbing a quick photo before work. Halfway into the journey and the car almost drove itself on the slight detour down to the river Eden at Lazonby. I’ve been there a number of times before, and normally around this time of day with mist…
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Morning Wander
We decided to pop our for a quick wander and took the camera along 😉
Read MoreOne from the garden
I was going to play in the garden with the camera this morning, then it started to rain so I retreated in doors and got a little ‘arty’ with a daffodil 🙂 This one is available as a print if you’d like one please get in touch 😉
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I was just catching up on sorting some photographs and remembered I’d taken this and not looked at it 🙂 It’s part of the old salt pans works on the West Coast of Cumbria near Crosscanonby, I’ve walked past the posts quite a few times and hardly ever taken a photograph of them, perhaps I’ll have to take a few more 🙂
Read MoreIt’s been a while
For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…
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