I’d call this a small doodle, but in reality it’s 73x54cm 😉 I decided to do something in carbon pencil again as I haven’t used them for a while, so I ended up trying a Tolkien themed piece – Tirith Aear, now I’ve tried this version of it a version in oil might be in order. Whilst the majority of this was completed in carbon pencil I did add some highlights back in photoshop as they vanished when I snapped the photo of it.
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Just fiddling with some little doodles in watercolour, this time it’s one of the windows of Bag End 😉
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Last year we visited Killantringan Lighthouse and I took a few snaps intending to use one as a reference for a painting. Then I forgot all about it, well, you know how it goes, things get in the way 😉 anyway, as I was selecting the subject for a new painting at the weekend I was browsing through some photographs and I noticed the lighthouse, so…..
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Decided to do another practice piece to get my eye in and slap some paint around for fun, so I ended up working from a reference image I took a few years ago.
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More stained glass practice… this time it was all joined by lead came rather than copper foil/solder. It proved harder than I thought it would mainly down to a problem with the lead came, the heart of the came was off centre so it ran off at odd angles and made it difficult to hold the glass in place. As it was only a practice piece I carried on rather than order new lead (which I should maybe have done), cementing was interesting and something I need to practice a…
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