A sketch that really got out of hand, the Forgotten Gate 😉 You wander down an old cobbled road, passing on the way a row of grand looking houses with well tended gardens stretching out in front of them. Slowly the grand houses give way to smaller houses that are in need of some T.L.C., their small gardens are overgrown with long grass and weed and the cobbled road is in need of repair. The smaller houses end as does the cobbled road and in front of you there is…
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What 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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Following my post this morning of a few early morning photographs, I wondered how I could use one of them to incorporate the quote by Oscar Wilde we are each our own devil and we make this world our hell. So after a little photoshop work…
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Week 17, heck where does the time go?
Read MoreThat Niggle Moment
I started a new painting which is not unusual for me; anyway as with Niggle and his Tree this is perhaps a bit too large for me and just a bit beyond my current skill level. Yesterday I mounted the canvases on the easel (using my patented canvas holding easel attachment) and then started on the sky which went fairly fast – which is not normal for me, painting a sky in oils can be a trial which I normally have to build myself up to but this time it…
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