A day out by the sea, cliffs, and one or two Gannets.
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Everything else…
The Deep
Or, a very poor attempt at curing ichthyophobia? Anyway, we visited the Deep in Hull, it was an excellent experience and a fun way to spend a morning.
Read MoreIn search of…
…Dracula. Okay, we paid a visit to Whitby during our weeks holiday, we didn’t find Dracula (though rumours abound that he was off rock pooling nearby), we did see a statue of Captain Cook (though given the treatment the statue had received from the local seagulls I decided to rename him ;-)). When I was looking at the photograph of the Abbey above full screen in Photoshop I spotted a nice little joker in the distance and had to enlarge it 😉 well, you have to really.
Read MoreChanges
It’s interesting to see the weather change around you, though normally I like to be hidden away indoors when it’s turning bad 😉 Anyway, the day started out fine with a nice touch of mist rising from the River Eden, so I took a few snaps by Langwathby. Then it all clouded over and looked a little boring for a while – well, boring for landscape photographs or sketching that is. We ended up having a run down to Kirkby Lonsdale, I took the camera along more out of hope…
Read MoreWandering Mind
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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