Last month I started on a painting of Niggle working away, it was for the theme of the month over at John Howe’s website. The theme was ‘The Bestest Book Ever – Imagine this is your dream commission, the book you’ve ALWAYS wanted to do a cover for.‘ So an illustration of Niggle was an obvious one for me to attempt. Sadly it was overtaken by real life events and I could not fit in any spare time to splash paint around, the month was gone all to quickly and…
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Another pub sign ;-)
Well, someone had to…..
Read MoreThe One Inn
Playing with pub sign ideas 🙂
Read MoreThe Professor!
Getting ready for the yearly toast to J. R. R. Tolkien, every year on his birthday at 2100hrs it’s time to raise a glass to the Professor, for more information check out the Tolkien Society.
Read MoreThe G Spot
Sat down to sketch a quick pub sign and for some reason ended up with this. Gandalf found Valinor a bit on the quiet side for his liking, and so he decided to open an inn. Planning permission was a little difficult to come by and in the end he had to put the inn down the end of a lane in a remote corner. The only pubs Gandalf could remember were the Prancing Pony of Bree and of course the Green Dragon which he was banned from for reasons…
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