A little bit more on the airship theme, after this one it’s a more serious bit of watercolour work on the agenda 😉 So, following on from this piece I wondered how the airship would work if it were included into a children’s book, the only way to find out was to rough up a page from the book 🙂
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The Good Ship Steorra
Found in a drawer recently, the a somewhat crumpled leaflet advertising flights to the stars on board the Steorra. Mainly completed in Photoshop though the airship is watercolour 🙂
Read MoreGrumble…. mutter….
Today I bought a toaster, amazing I know. No I’m not about to start posting about every kitchen product I buy, but I will grumble and mutter a bit about this one (and in fact most electrical products you buy these days). My grumble is this…. Do you think the manufacturers sit down at design meetings and say to themselves, “let’s make a nice clean, shiny product, then stick labels on it. So when the customer gets it home they spend 10 minutes covering it in finger prints and scratches…
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I was trying to think of a painting for the theme of the month which is Airships over on the John Howe website. And I was thinking (if you can call it that), what if Tolkien before he wrote the Council of Elrond scene had watched a few hot air balloons fly by, perhaps he’d have sent the ring South by balloon instead of with the fellowship on foot. Elrond looked annoyed and the other members of the council shuffled in their seats. “Look,” said Frodo, “I’m not saying I…
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This morning we needed to go to the shop for some dog food, so rather than wait until the shops were packed we had an early run out. When we left the shop we decided to drive the long way home 😉 The cloud was very low over the Pennines but the light was breaking through in odd places giving quite a nice effect, so I had to take a couple of photographs… For some reason this next photograph makes me want to draw hill with a golden hall upon…
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