I’ve been trying to get some ideas together for a painting, I know the basic idea of what I want to achieve at the end, it’s the bits that go into it that are causing the problems. So rather than try and sketch out the full scene I’ve been playing with different elements of it. Naturally this led to my mind wandering and I ended up with a couple of Tolkien related sketches 🙂 First one of the Three-Farthings Stone in the Shire – Then there was one of…
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High Snockrigg & Others…
A slight departure from my usual stuff I suppose but this morning I decided to play with some Derwent pencils for a while. Rather than use them as I normally do, to sketch out a rough idea before painting, I decided to complete a drawing with them on a nice piece of crisp white Bristol paper. Another slight departure was the subject matter. The weather outside was rather wet and windy when I started so a reference photograph was good solution, the one chosen was taken last week at Buttermere…
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I wasn’t happy with the dragon I painted the other day link so, there was only one thing for it. Either I try to ignore it and hope the colour and shape of the dragon would grow on me over time, or I could paint a new dragon. Hopefully this new dragon fits the scene a little better, it certainly doesn’t annoy me like the first version.
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Okay, a little background first, some time ago on the evil that is Facebook (which I obviously visit most days ;-)) John Howe posted a photograph with the comment “Speaking of dragons… it wouldn’t take a lot to transform those rocks on the left into something with scales, heading back into the sea.” A few comments later and it became “What if we all use this image as reference and see what we come up with?” After reading these and other comments I decided I’d give it a go with…
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I quite enjoy trying something outside of my comfort zone, it’s too easy to stick to the familiar grounds – which for me would be painting, photographing, and writing about standing stones or the dawn sky (though I will be posting more on the Sunrise topic soon ;-)). So when Zoe Dawes, otherwise known as the Quirky Traveller (or should that be the Quirky Traveller who is also known at times as Zoe Dawes?) asked if I would help her come up with something a bit quirky I decided to…
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