Tag: illustration

What if…

Graeme Skinner

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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Silliness and Stuff

Graeme Skinner

Okay, the ‘stuff’ first, I’ll be uploading the weekly challenge backlog shortly, well as soon as I’ve found the book with them all in :-/ Now for the silliness. I’ve been busy painting landscapes, and generally being far too serious for my own good. So, when I turned to the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website I had to do something a little more light hearted. The theme this month is ‘Under Sea & Under Wave’, and for this I scribbled a quick Photoshop picture. When Looney…

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Miserable

Graeme Skinner

Painting rain and trying to capture the movement of wind on a piece of paper is not quite as easy as you’d think. After a few scribbles I came up with Miserable – He’d only been on guard duty for half an hour and he was already miserable, the rain came in waves varying from a heavy downpour to a total massive deluge. If that weren’t bad enough the wind was blowing so hard he could hardly catch his breath. A3 gouache with the reflection added in photoshop as an…

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