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trying hard ;-)

Graeme Skinner

I’ve been trying to get my hand/arm coordination back into working order; I’d say so far it is 50/50 there are periods where I don’t notice anything wrong, and others where my hand goes where it wants regardless of my brain shouting “go left”. Anyway, I picked a couple of images I took at Crawick Multiverse last week as references and started splashing paint around – both are A4, and after picking up the car from the garage this morning and receiving the bill in the form of a bound…

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A Wee Break

Graeme Skinner

We had a few days away in Scotland, wandering, hiding, drinking, sleeping, and taking a photo or two… Our first stop was on the way to our accommodation, just outside Dumfries is the stone circle Twelve Apostles – On the first day we visited Crawick Multiverse, which continued the standing stone theme really 😉 We also stopped by one of those Andy Goldsworthy eggs, I believe it’s an advertisement for his building work, or maybe a sample of his brickwork abilities. The next day we popped round to Threave House,…

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Adamant

Graeme Skinner

First stained glass piece for me in quite some time, this one was made to celebrate my parents diamond wedding anniversary. It took a few attempts, well, my hand sometimes didn’t work the way I expected it to and glass is fragile 😉 The wood was some that I managed to salvage from an old church pew my parents bought when a local church was closing a decade or two ago that had finally given up.

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Prototyping…

Graeme Skinner

I had an idea for a lamp quite some time ago now, bought the electrical bits, then paused for far too long; so the other day I decided to give the lamp idea a go. It has different rivers cut down each face to let out a ‘river of light’ 😉 Luckily with it being a prototype it doesn’t really matter that the light itself goes off at a slight angle – no idea why as it’s a new light fitting and new tube. The rivers I picked are ones…

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