I came up with this idea of painting scenes from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with the night sky as it would actually appear on that date and time, so I went through LOTRs and marked up all the references to when the night sky was visible, there’s quite a few references 😉 Anyway, I decided for the first illustration to work out how the sky would have looked as the left Bag End, then I painted the scene – the sky took far too long, then,…
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I decided to paint a Castlerigg Stone Circle night scene, to make it a bit more interesting I decided to paint a fairly accurate night sky, so I worked out how the sky would have looked the from the day we got married and painted that 😉
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I managed a quick couple of photographs of Venus, the waning crescent Moon, and Jupiter this morning. It was rather cold out there so I didn’t linger 😉
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Started off working on a Tolkien themed Moon illustration and ended up doing a pen & ink Lunar lander with a bit of text added on 😉
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I went out early to see the coming together of Jupiter and Venus, okay, they didn’t quite come together but they were quite close from where I saw them from 😉 anyone, before they popped over the Pennines I took a photo of Orion over the pond…
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