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Dark Sky
Read more: Dark SkyThe synoptic gospel accounts of the day of Jesus’ crucifixion tell us that “from noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land”. Ignoring issues about whether this darkness was figurative or real (and if the later then how it was caused), this celestial gloom clearly adds to the drama of the…
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Sakura (桜)
Read more: Sakura (桜)Cherry blossom is appearing all over Japan at the moment, and I’m lucky enough to be seeing it happen. Admittedly most of the blossom I have seen so far has been set against leaden grey skys, so this picture is something of a concept piece – how I imagine the trees would look in front…
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Biker Rabbit
Read more: Biker RabbitI was just wondering why it is that rabbits always seem to appear out of top hats? 🙂
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City Lights
Read more: City LightsThe City contains a lot of wrought iron, some of it genuinely Victorian and some just trying to look as if it might be that old! This light is situated in a very new part of London, which I have just discovered is called Bazalgette Embankment. Now Joseph Bazalgette was a Victorian engineer who built…
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Backlit Crocuses
Read more: Backlit Crocuses… or should it be “backlit croci”? The interweb seems to be divided on the correct plural of crocus. However, such grammatical issues are a mere side show to the main event here – which is that last week during seemingly continuous rainfall the sun actually made a brief appearance to light up the spring…
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Le Grand Café
Read more: Le Grand CaféThis magnificent building stands in the middle of Brussels beside the old Bourse, and I guess once kept the financiers of the city fed and watered as they traded their way to success or ruin in the industrial expansion of nineteenth century Belgium. Fortunately the hostelry didn’t seem to be suffering any lack of customers…
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All Flat & Wide
Read more: All Flat & WideThese flat-crowned trees were a common sight during my recent safari experience. Other (to my eyes more normally proportioned) trees were more abundant, but because these flat trees tended to stand on their own they were much more noticeable. In pictures of the African bush these trees often appear as silhouettes, so it seemed natural…
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Room With A View
Read more: Room With A ViewThis view was a surprise! I had recently seen Robben Island from the top of Table Mountain, but it never occurred to me that the prison on Robben Island would be built to allow clear views of the mountain directly from any of the cells. Having recovered from my surprise, this view struck me as…
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Giraffe
Read more: GiraffeThese are curious creatures – elegant yet ungainly, innocent yet inscrutable, tall yet … well just really tall. Initially I did a sketch of the whole beast, but I only had a small sketch pad so was frustrated that I couldn’t draw the animal’s gaze in any detail because the height was dominating everything. So…
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A Door In Strasbourg
Read more: A Door In StrasbourgThere are some very imposing front doors in Strasbourg – decorated but yet very solid – fine examples of French (or perhaps German given how often the border has moved!) workmanship. At the point where I had the shape of this image defined in pen I had high hopes for this picture. Unfortunately the watercolour…
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Face – in many colours
Read more: Face – in many coloursNot quite sure what this – best perhaps to think of it as an experiment! Quite good fun to draw though, and easy on the eye, so might try something similar again …
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Snow
Read more: SnowIt snowed here today, so I drew this little scene from my head before the inspiration faded along with our thawing snow …
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