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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Haystacks
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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As it’s the final theme over on John Howe’s website it’s all about endings, so I decided to paint a scene from near the end of the Hobbit… I had previously tried this scene in pen and ink but thought paint was more appropriate this time 😉
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