I’ve wanted to try my hand at stained glass for a while, but a few things put me off, the main one being that I could never cut glass 😉 whenever I tried before the glass would break anywhere but the place I’d scored it. There was only one thing I could do, buy some glass and try again…. for some reason this time I tried the glass would break along the scored line nice and cleanly – I don’t know what I did differently but at least it worked…
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Tolkien and his works has been on my mind more than usual this week following the death of Christopher Tolkien, so I ended up scribbling Gandalf sketches, Gandalf hats, his staff…. you get the idea 😉 anyway, I decided I needed to practice sketching robes and folds in clothing a bit more so used the Hobbit movie poster as a reference for a Gandalf sketch. Now I need to start from scratch again and work on a larger Gandalf illustration, I just need to wake up and get some energy…
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A pen and ink piece to keep the brain going 😉 the theme is ‘Earth’ this month as part of a four month four elements grand theme.
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Started off doodling on a large sheet of paper to practice some sketching techniques, and the doodle grew and grew until I finished off a drawing of Castlerigg Stone Circle – normally I just focus on a stone or two so completing the full circle is unusual for me 😉
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It’s practice time, so I’ve been painting colours, skies, grass, clouds, washes…. and I got the point where I had to do something a bit more real. So I rattled out a quick practice painting 😉
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