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Sunday, 2 September 2007

Stone People

Stone People

Stone People, frozen to the sky,
Remote from reality and wondering why,
Struck by the blaze from the light on high
Statues. Unmoving, however hard they try.

Stone People, left here for always,
Held in static pose by a mindless daze,
Standing rigid, stuck in unending stance,
Passing their existence locked in a trance.

Stone People, caught somehow in time,
Unbending, petrified, cast hard in lime,
Isolated, trapped, abandoned by the stream,
Part of the landscape, part of my dream.

Monday, 4 June 2007

Valleys & Rocks

The sets I did on valleys & rocks were composites again, using sketches from Ireland, Wales & the The Lakes. I did a whole series of skylines & then added features later. I've got dozens of skylines still waiting for details. I tried to make the skylines & the lines of the hillsides accurate, while rocks, gates & paths were added from other sources & because of the way the wax flows (or doesn't) some just happened. Since having a decent scanner, I messed around with the images, mainly altering colours.
I've shown them with the original first & then the altered image after it.
The first one was actually a real failure that I just liked. Using a full sized iron meant that I sometimes had difficulty when I tried to get perspective & scale to look right. The icicles were meant to be small & hanging from a branch. I just altered the whole thing when that went wrong!

The next two were a skyline from a place that I think is called Windy Gap in Co. Kerry. Mind you, the detail is from elsewhere because there is really a road running through the valley. It's one of those places that you arrive at unexpectedly because it doesn't look as though it's there until you get "round a corner." We went with Stan & Jackie, got out & walked & then when we tried to find it again a few years later, couldn't locate. I started to think it was a figment of imagination, but Mortimer seemed to think that it existed when we described it.