I was looking for inspiration for ‘wolf’ themed paintings when Julie pointed me towards this poem… On Ederachillis’ shore The grey wolf lies in wait- Woe to the broken door, Woe to the loosened gate, And the groping wretch whom sleety fogs On the trackless moor belate. The lean and hungry wolf, With his fangs so sharp and white, His starveling body pinched By the frost of a northern night, And his pitiless eyes that scare the dark With their green and threatening light. He climeth the guarding dyke, He…
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The eyes have it
I had a little play with Painter 12 and sketched my eye for the theme of the month at john-howe.com Once I’d sketched the eye I started to think it would be interesting to try and sketch something digitally similar to something you’d see in ye olde country manor with the ‘gent’ posing alongside his hound 😉
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Last month I started on a painting of Niggle working away, it was for the theme of the month over at John Howe’s website. The theme was ‘The Bestest Book Ever – Imagine this is your dream commission, the book you’ve ALWAYS wanted to do a cover for.‘ So an illustration of Niggle was an obvious one for me to attempt. Sadly it was overtaken by real life events and I could not fit in any spare time to splash paint around, the month was gone all to quickly and…
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I was going to play in the garden with the camera this morning, then it started to rain so I retreated in doors and got a little ‘arty’ with a daffodil 🙂 This one is available as a print if you’d like one please get in touch 😉
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For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…
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