This morning I decided to rattle off a quick watercolour, it was another standing stone painting to go with a short story I had in mind. So, after splashing some paint about for a while I decided to write the text to go with it…. in hindsight I should have made a few notes as to what the story was about other than a bloke standing with a flaming torch in front of a large standing stone at night. Maybe the story will come back to me when I least…
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Silliness and Stuff
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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Another month another theme of the month to think about over at John-Howe.com
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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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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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