Don’t you just wish every now and then you could magic yourself to a different place for a while 😉 When I watched this video this morning I almost was somewhere else for a while. It’s certainly worth watching full screen. Amazing work by Terje Sorgjerd it must be said. The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
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A page from the book
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 🙂
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWhat if…
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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