News — Hogwarts

For Christmas 2015 my wife bought me a very large 152cm x 122cm canvas to paint on. My decision to make was what to paint on my new prized possession. I had been to Harry Potter World in the summer and a picture of the large Hogwarts model from a near perfect angle for the painting. So I started sketching on the large canvas on a scale that I had never before. The building itself was easy as I had the photo I’d taken and felt I’d gotten the scale and range correct. But deciding the scenery around the building...