Sat down to sketch a quick pub sign and for some reason ended up with this. Gandalf found Valinor a bit on the quiet side for his liking, and so he decided to open an inn. Planning permission was a little difficult to come by and in the end he had to put the inn down the end of a lane in a remote corner. The only pubs Gandalf could remember were the Prancing Pony of Bree and of course the Green Dragon which he was banned from for reasons…
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What the hell is a bouncy druid….
It’s hard to imagine a druid as being bouncy, well, just consider some of the activities they’re known for, (here described by Pliny the Elder) “A [druid] priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree and, with a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak. Then finally they kill the victims…” Mr Elder didn’t mention at any point during the ritual that the druids were particularly bouncy at all. Though perhaps a certain amount of bouciness would occur after lighting the blue touch paper…
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I was playing around with digital pen and ink (on Painter 12) and started a sketch of J. R. R. Tolkien, it quickly developed into a tinted version with some text 😉 I think I may enjoy playing with digital ink & paints 🙂
Read MoreLeaf by Graeme
I was thinking of this painting while I was down in the wood earlier and scanned through my posts here to find it and couldn’t. So, here’s an old painting (well 2007) along with the poem that went with it. And here is the poem… LEAF BY GRAEME If I could choose a leaf to paint I’d paint a Leaf by Niggle It wouldn’t be a sketchy scrawl It wouldn’t be a squiggle But with veins and pores and chlorophyl A stem and ribs and branch It would have a…
Read MoreIf you go down to the woods today
This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we’d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn’t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a…
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