Well, that’s enough time spent looking at myself for self portraits this month, the ‘Selfie’ theme of the month over on John Howe’s forum has resulted in me staring at my ugly mug for far too long. Now I need to look at some green fields dotted with Hobbit holes and maybe a wizard or two 😉
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Play Time
I was going to paint a fantasy themed piece yesterday, but for some reason decided to paint Hugo playing with his ball….
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Clouds clouds everywhere… well that’s normally the case when you live in Cumbria. With us seeing so much cloud I decided to paint some 😉
Read MoreWould you beleaf it?
Wandering round the garden this morning (after the fun job of cleaning out the chickens) and I started to pick up a few leaves. I wasn’t cleaning the garden or anything as radical as that, I was picking up any leaf that caught my eye. Returning to the house my intention was to take a few macro photographs of the leaves for a bit of fun 😉 however when I lay them on the table I decided to photograph them as they were – As I was photographing them I…
Read MoreIt’s been a while
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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