For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…
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Wander
I went for a wander in the snow across the fields and came upon this character… I thought he looked a stylish chap and worthy of a photo. Then I spotted this tree… Now I just need to remember where it is for future sketches/photographs 🙂
Read MoreYoung Ent
Decided to sketch a young Ent today 😉 Now to try one in colour.
Read MorePatches of Light and Green
Went for an early morning wander and spent a little bit of time watching the patches of light come and go amongst the trees. It’s quite interesting to watch how quickly things change as the Sun climbs above the horizon creating different patterns as its rays pass through the branches and leaves. Maybe one day I’ll manage a time lapse of it.
Read MorePhotoshop Frenzy
Sometimes tweaking an image in Photoshop gets a bit out of hand, but in the end I quite liked the result 🙂 While I was playing with this image I wondered what other images I should have tweaked a little bit more or maybe I should just delete Photoshop from this computer for a while 😉
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