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Wealden Heath Art

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Photography, drawing, and painting from the Wealden Heath national nature reserve in the south east of England. This is the land I walk between Godalming, Farnham, and Haslemere.

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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hind Head Path. I’ve been investigating the golden armature this evening - one ink drawing based on thirds, and the other with phi. The phi led to a tunnel offset from the center, with what feels like more tension. #inkdrawing #art
Ink drawing of a woodland path , tunnel offset trees  offset to the right Woodland path ink ink, the appearance of a tunnel straight down the center of the page
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hankley Common before the storm. photo taken last weekend, got home just as the rain started. #oilpainting #landscape #art
Oil painting of Hankley Common in Surrey. A pale sandy track runs through heathland towards a bright horizon, flanked by burnt silver birch trunks with blackened bases and broken tops. Pink, lilac and rust heather grows along the track edges, with a band of sunlit yellow grass beyond and a dark treeline in the distance. Heavy grey storm clouds fill the upper two-thirds of the picture, with small breaks of pale blue.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heron fishing on the river Wey, taken from photo near Pierrepont Home Farm in #Tilford #surrey. #oilpainting #art #heron I enjoyed experimenting with different mark making.
Oil painting of a grey heron standing upright in shallow water, facing left, its white neck and yellow bill set against a dark brown mud bank that fills the top third of the canvas. The river below is a mosaic of green, yellow and violet dabs of reflected tree canopy, with the heron's pale reflection curving away beneath it, broken up by the dabs. Smooth horizontal strokes of olive and green form the calm water in the foreground.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pudmore Pond - Thursley Common - on a cold January night. Done some more work on the water and front tufts, as the pond was resolving as grey not dark ink. Gotta learn how to photograph these better. #oilpainting #art
Oil painting of Pudmore Pond, Thursley Common, on a frosty, foggy winter night, with frosted grass and a few faint stars.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quick inktense study of the Lydling Farm lily pond, just north of Shackleford. using ink and #inktense blocks. #art Wrong paper but a good proof of concept.
Vertical Inktense and ink painting of a lily pond. In the foreground, a dense cluster of lily pads is drawn as flat, interlocking shapes in teal, lime, ochre, mauve and orange, each outlined in black ink, with heavier outlines on the nearest pads and one pad curled into a spiral. The pads shrink into small inked arcs as the pond recedes diagonally across the middle ground, between patches of muddy grey-brown and pale blue water. A dark reflection band runs beneath a straight far bank lined with reeds drawn as vertical ticks over a teal wash. Behind the reeds are a yellow field, a large dark olive tree mass, a thin tree at top right and a grey sky. Signed in the bottom left corner.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Snags of dead trees, evidence of the 2020 fire, on the Thursley Common boardwalk around Pudmore Pond, taken in January and October 2023 respectively. #ThursleyCommon #wildfire
Two dead, bark-stripped tree trunks stand in frost-covered pale grass beside a partly frozen pool that catches a glint of light. Scots pines recede in layers of blue haze towards a distant ridge, while weak sun glows through heavy grey cloud above.The same two dead tree trunks stand in tall rust-orange grass on open heathland. Behind them, a still pool breathes faint mist and reflects scattered Scots pines. A low wooded ridge fades into the distance under a flat grey morning sky.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This old oak stands on the northern shore of Frensham Little Pond, with its broke lower limb pointing out across the shoreline reeds. Photos taken in Jan 21 and Nov 23, and I must go and see how it’s looking. #frensham #surreyhills #photography
A large, ancient oak on the right of the frame, its bare, moss-covered limbs arching across a grey-white winter sky. A broken branch juts towards a calm lake, which lies beyond a wide bed of pale brown reeds. A low line of dark woodland sits on the far shore.The same oak in autumn, seen as a dark silhouette against low, bright sunlight. Its spreading canopy of golden-orange leaves frames a glowing lake and backlit, feathery reeds. The broken branch points towards the water, and green undergrowth fills the foreground.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An inktense experiment of a heron Fishing on the River Wey, at the ford near Pierrepont Home Farm. I was most interested in the patchy green water. Planning an oil version later in the week. #inktense #heron #art
An ink outline of a heron and coloured with Inktense pencils. Standing in a river that has pink tree reflections and bright green mixed in square patches
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
oil pastel experiment of a heron fishing on the river Wey. #art #oilpastels #heron #surreyhills
Ghostly heron surrounded by colourful pastel marks
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oil painting of Pudmore Pond on Thursley common. from a photo taken at night one January. I might go back in to glaze the pond with a bit of ultramarine. #oilpainting #painting #art #thursley #surrey
Oil painting of Pudmore Pond on Thursley Common, Surrey, on a still, foggy winter night. A flat, dark grey pool fills most of the scene. Along the far shore, a band of bright frost glows beneath a line of trees softened by fog, with a single dead tree standing on the left. Frosted grass tussocks with pale, upswept tips curve in from the lower left along a muddy bank, and three more clumps sit along the bottom edge. The sky is a deep blue-grey with a few faint stars. Initialled CR lower right.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been repeating this scene today, and settled on a pen and ink washes, a little bit more minimalist. views from Seale to Runfold and The Sands. #surreyHills #pen #ink #art
Pen and ink-wash drawing of rolling winter fields south of Seale, Surrey, with a lone tree and a distant tower on the ridge.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Experimenting with watercolour washes over pen. Views of fields south of Seale in the #surreyhills #watercolour #art #pen
Watercolour washes of a January morning - fields recede into a hazy distance Stage 1 - ink drawing which wasn’t working for me just by itself
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ink drawing of Chrisjen Avarasala from the Expanse. #art #ink #theexpanse
Character from the expanse - Indian descent - in a fur coat looking leftwards into the distance. Large jewel at her neck.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen sketch of Gandalf. #ink #lordoftherings
Pen sketch of Gandalf, cropped tight. Cracked style patterns around the square border
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen and ink sketches of Leia and Padme. #ink #art #starwars
Padme in a red triangle, lies in a blue triangle
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pen and inktense version of our three guinea pigs nestled in a snug. #art #ink #inktense #guineapigs
Pen-and-ink drawing with coloured ink wash: three ginger-and-white guinea pigs lying in a heap of pink, magenta and dark grey clothing against a flat yellow background. A pale olive skull-and-crossbones motif on the fabric sits lower right.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
our three guinea pigs nestled in a snug. #oilpainting #art #guineapigs
Oil painting of three ginger-and-white guinea pigs nestled in a heap of black, pink and magenta clothing, against an acid yellow-green background. A lime-green skull-and-crossbones motif on the fabric fills the lower right.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bit more pen practice with a quick study of #athens. #art
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here is a section of a more ambitious painting I have started on, where I stitched in a few reference photos together and am now trying to do a Frazetta style heroic scene based on Thranduil at the Battle of Fibe Armies. #art #workinprogress
Thrandul in bright light emerges from shadow to charge a horde of goblins, dale stands besieged above
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Chrome Hill at sunrise, with a hot air balloon floating into the distance. A beautiful view on my walk about a week ago. #peakdistrict #art #landscape #oilpainting
Oil painting of Chrome Hill in the Peak District at sunrise. The distinctive jagged, ridged peak rises in the middle distance, its slopes lit with warm early light and striped in shadow, above a dark tree line and rolling pastureland. A small hot air balloon floats in the pale sky to the right of the summit. In the foreground, sheep graze in tall golden grass studded with seed heads and thistles.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
early start today and the result is this oil painting of Ramshaw Rocks in the Peak District. #oilpainting #art #peakdistrict
Oil painting of Ramshaw Rocks in the Peak District, showing weathered rock outcrops on a hillside covered in autumnal gorse and heather in yellow, orange, and rust tones, with green shrubs and a blue sky with white clouds
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
back home and early enough for a quick oil painting version of the crags from Black Brook nature reserve in the #peakDistrict #art #oilpainting
Oil painting on canvas of two weathered rock outcrops on open moorland under a blue sky with scattered white clouds, with rolling hills and fields visible in the distance.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Skeletor pen drawing. #art #mastersoftheuniverse
Black and white one portrait of Skeletor - a skull under a hood
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Duncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 26/08/2026
Good morning bluesky It's been sunny this morning, but we're hoping for more of yesterday's rain (and hail) ⛅ `Dark storm clouds over Carpathian Mountains, bright sunlit hills` #synthart
watercolour and fine ink on paper, loose rustic folk-art field-sketch style with transparent washes, visible pigment pooling, bleeding and irregular hand-drawn lines, a tree with fiery autumnal leaves, a dark storm clouds over Carpathian Mountains, bright sunshine on rolling hills, diffused evening lighting, airy composition with negative space and simplified forms --ar 7:5 --pm --stylize 200 --v 8.2
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reworked my ink sketch of Minis Tirith to experiment with the six drawing pens. #art #drawing #lordoftherings
Ink sketch of minis Tirith with Gandalf the white riding towards the city
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I redrew my boulder from Black Brook Nature Reserve in the #PeakDistrict to use the drawing pens I picked up in Buxton. #art #inkdrawing
Ink drawing of a large boulder with a stone wall coming towards the foreground
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quick ink drawing of the crag at Black Brook nature reserve, just north of ramshaw rocks. #art #peakdistrict
Pen drawing of a gritstone boulder with a a stone wall coming into the foreground
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One more drawing this evening. The siege of Minis Tirith. #ink #art #lordoftherings
Ink drawing of the siege of minis tirith
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Riding Out Of Edoras. A #ink #art #sketch. #lordoftherings
Black and white ink drawing of the riders of Rohan as they ride out of edoras to war
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A quick ink sketch of Tenterhill bridge in the sales west of Buxton. #peakdistrict #ink #art
An old stone bridge nestled in an overgrown limestone dale
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My last graphatint drawing of Thranduil reminded me of his old MECCG card art, so here is a homage to that. #art #lordoftherings
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Another #lordoftherings character in graphatint, water soluble graphite pencil and pen. Thranduil on a moose. #art
Thranduil on a moose
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Different direction with my graphatint experiments, leaning into the water soluble graphite pencils. uruk-hai, #lordoftherings #art
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A loose colour exercise of the fells up High Rigg in the #lakeDistrict #art further experiments with graphatint pencils
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sheep graze in front of Clough Head in the #lakeDistrict. Last #graphatint #art #landscape experiment of the afternoon.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Another - more stylised - attempt at Castle Rock and St John in the vale in the #lakedistrict. #graphatint #landscape #art. a bit overworked but getting more sense of what these pencils can do.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Graphatint pencil of Castle Rock and St John in the Vale #lakeDistrict #art #landscape #graphatint
River moves from foreground to right hand mid ground, castle rock rises up on left. Farm animals in the fields to the left.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
An oil painting of the path heading out of wastwater towards great gable #art #painting #lakedistrict
Great gable on the left , mixed skies, bright green grass and rocks
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A Mid-week, quick oil portrait of #Spock, based on an ink painting with a similar style. #art #paitning #startrek
Oil portrait of Spock, loose. Green skin , pain marks visible. Pink background
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A weekend oils on board portrait of the Night King from #gameofthrones #art #painting. I’m focusing on portraits I can do in a couple days as most of the lessons I’m learning are still early on in the process.
Limited blue palette portrait of the night king
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
really enjoyed #painting #skeletor from #mastersoftheuniverse. Listened the sound track on loop. #oilpainting #oils #art
Loose, impressionistic (?) oil painting of skeletor. Hooded Skull with chromatic white to pink eyes
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#oilpainting of a forested ridge in the Sierra de grazalema in Andalucia near Malaga. #art #landscape
Oil painting cool purples to greens to warm oranges left to right
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Pleased with my #ink spine art for my #gameofthrones #agotlcg and #arkhamHorror card folders. Front & bafks to do, plus 3 more folders for Lord of the Rings LCG to do as well.
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spent a couple hours making my own werewolf cards for a game tonight. #werewolf #boardgame
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Another version of the hand of prophecy #dune #ink #art
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
First version this evening of a #Dune #ink painting. I love the worm and overall composition. Shadows and the hand need a bit more thought and will use inktense washes vs acrylic ink for the colour. #art
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I am super pleased with this #LordOfTheRings illustration. Acrylic #ink outline and then #inktense for the colour. #art #lotr
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The Fellowship at Doors of Durin, this time in #ink. #LordOfTheRings #lotr #art
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Two drawings of the fellowship at the Doors of Durin, done three months apart. I’ll try again in a few months to see how my technique is progressing. #art #LordOfTheRings #lotr #drawing
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Wealden Heath Art @quietstarvoyager.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Dow Crag in the #LakeDistrict. A3 using graphite and graphatint pencils. #art #drawing
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