I decided to paint a Castlerigg Stone Circle night scene, to make it a bit more interesting I decided to paint a fairly accurate night sky, so I worked out how the sky would have looked the from the day we got married and painted that π
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Return to type
Decided to play with type for a change….
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This months theme over on John Howe’s website is Creatures from Outer Space, I think the idea was for something scary so I went with the mice (Frankie and Benjy) from Hitchhikers π well, they are pan-dimensional beings from Magrathea who wanted to cut out Arthur Dent’s brain so they could be classed as a little scary π
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This months theme over on John Howe’s website is Merlin… Bit of an Arthurian theme here – Merlin the enchanter in all his various forms and origins, from Taliesin, Myrrddin, etc., all the way through to The Once and Future King. I went on a bit of a wander, with the pencil that is, and I spent far too much time sketching Camelot high on a hill, with plenty of mist. So it’s only appropriate that I ended up painting Merlin, lost in thought and in the wood π
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Quick sketch of a Gandalf mask for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website.
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