As I was getting ready to do an early drive into town I noticed the sky was turning a bit red, so decided to take a few quick photographs to stitch together – Thirty minutes later I was back home and the sky had quickly changed (as it does) and now the red dawn had been replaced with some rather impressive grey clouds – if you can call clouds impressive that is? I thought they looked interesting anyway and took another series of photographs to stitch together –
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We Failed
We failed at building a scarecrow, for some odd reason we attracted more crows than we scared…. A4 Watercolour
Read MoreThe Summoning
Another digital piece (I’ll work with real paint soon) this one is of an old priest summoning his mob of crows for war.
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It’s interesting to see the weather change around you, though normally I like to be hidden away indoors when it’s turning bad 😉 Anyway, the day started out fine with a nice touch of mist rising from the River Eden, so I took a few snaps by Langwathby. Then it all clouded over and looked a little boring for a while – well, boring for landscape photographs or sketching that is. We ended up having a run down to Kirkby Lonsdale, I took the camera along more out of hope…
Read MoreGoing Pear Shaped
I went out this morning nice and early as there was mist forming quite nicely in the Eden valley, my intention had been to capture a bit of the early morning summer atmosphere. Not far from the house I paused and started taking photographs, and it was indeed a pleasant morning to potter about with the camera taking both moody misty shots and shots that I could only describe as desolate. So why is my favourite photograph of the morning one of a scarecrow in the field next to…
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