Painting Niggle

Trying to think of painting leaves without thinking about Niggle (as in Niggle from Tree & Leaf by J. R. R. Tolkien) and his tree is almost impossible for me, and so when I saw the theme of the month was Into the Green over at John Howe’s website my mind turned to Niggle and what he would paint. For some reason I did not want to paint his tree, or a segment of it, but illustrate him painting part of the tree. I probably spent more time on the…

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Time for a dragon (I)

I’m starting on a few days/weeks of drawing and painting dragons; I like dragons, well as long as they’re not sitting in the garden trying to burn down the house. Anyway, I’ve read the required manual on dragon creation (Forging Dragons, by John Howe) and I have scribbled in the margin of a few pages so I am fully prepared for dragon creation 🙂 There are a couple of reasons that I want to paint my dragon, first of all there is the theme of the month to work on…

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