I thought I’d paint another landscape as it’s been a while since I’ve worked on one, so I decided on the view looking down over Buttermere and Crummock. The intention when I started was to block a few areas in with acrylic to get the feel of the piece then finish it in oils, in the end I used acrylics for the entire painting as it was ‘working’ at the time. As with the majority of paintings I’ve completed for the last few years has soon as I signed it…
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We thought the wall above the bed would be the ideal place for something a bit different, so, we decided to make a copper tree to go above it. After two reels of copper wire, much cutting, twisting, and bending we have a tree 😉 at the moment it’s half summer half winter, maybe in a while I’ll turn it completely to a leaf covered summer tree.
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The theme this month over on John Howe’s website is “Interlace” which included… Celtic knot work theme this month. Something intertwined – it could be the intricate border of a manuscript or it could be braided hair or tree roots… Or both. So I decided to go with some tree roots in pen & ink to start me off….
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Quick doodle in Photoshop…
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Still sketching standing stones, well, it would be rude not to 😉 this time inspired by the standing stones from the Barrow-Downs that Frodo & Co. encountered in the Fellowship of the Ring. This is quite a large piece (22.5″ x 19″) using 2B Wolff’s Carbon Pencil on paper.
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