Category: Artistic

Where Next

Graeme Skinner

Looking out over Tolkien’s Middle Earth wondering where to visit next. Based on this image of John Howe on top of a hill (I stood peering over the edge there once, and I’m sure I saw some misty mountains in the distance), and of course the map of Middle Earth by Tolkien. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted the place names on or not, and I’m still not sure, here’s the version without the text.

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Type….

Graeme Skinner

I’ve been playing with type lately, it’s something I used to do years ago and fell out of the habit, but since downloading a trial of QuarkXPress I’ve got back into it 😉 So I asked around for some quotes/words that I could use (rather than use my own favourite quotes which everyone is probably sick of hearing). So here’s two versions of a latin quote, and one Moo!

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Arriving at Bag End

Graeme Skinner

Four dwarves arriving at Bag End, straight from the book 😉 I may paint them differently in twelve months of course 🙂 This was a large watercolour which I stopped and started too many times, lost my way, forgot what I was doing, but I got there in the end 😉 (The majority is watercolour, but there’s a touch of gouache, some coloured pencil, and a bit of Photoshop included for good measure).

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W. N. Hodgson – Website

Graeme Skinner

This week I’ve been working on a bit of web design, it’s a site for a book ‘Climb Black Sail For Me’ based on the far too brief a life of W. N. Hodgson. It was a fun site to work on, especially trying to create a pen and ink map for the header – actually it was one of those ideas that comes to you and you have to stop everything else until you’ve tried it out 😉 glad I did now. Hopefully the website will spark plenty of…

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