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Happy from this trow with a Neepy Lantern! Though I think there will be more tricks than treats from this one!

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2021-10-31

Today we have two sketches using simple forms, chalks and oil mediums, and an essential telegraph pole. Based on standing stone studies, Orkney.

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2021-10-30

Orkney Saga. This is a large piece with bits of stone circle, cloud burst, sea and land, and, of course, a telegraph pole or two. Vivid memories from the last few days. Thanks

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2021-10-16

You seem to be short of an Orkney one? So here’s a pic from last night

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2021-10-12

An Orkney Saga, parts 1 to 4. After a bad few days doodling up a cul de sac feeling a little better now. Even though I’ve run out of flake white.

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2021-09-07

“Come ashore for rack and ruin havoc it brings, disease and drought. With killer breath he blows Mortasheen, a disease to strike horses. Of this land.” -The Book of Beasties

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2021-08-18

fairies - aka trows - live in mounds, fly on dock leaves, and love fiddle music and dancing. If you’re lured into a mound for a dram of whiskey and a reel, you might reappear anywhere from 10 to 100 years later, though it will only feel like minutes.

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2021-08-12

Steve’s lighthouse, part of the sculpture trail in aid of in 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦀🎨.

Two Worlds One Scotland.

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2021-08-07

Near the ocean of Orkney, a wolf appears and seems he wants us to follow him. Muramasa senses a god-like aura, he wonders if there is a divine servant around as this lb has no god. We decide to go to Orkney with a boat

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2021-07-30

Now we decide where to go. Oberon wants to ring Oxford's bell now that woodwas is dead but the queens army is gonna be there. However da vinci says that the perfect spot to go now is Orkney at the north. As knocknare and the queens army isnt there

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2021-07-26

⚓️NEXT WEEK ON SPYHARDS!⚓️

Your agents are joined by Carrie Specht of to infiltrate the Orkney Islands with Conrad Veidt in 1939s THE SPY IN BLACK!

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2021-07-24

frankenstein scenes i like but its dr frisky. gettin stuff done at the orkneys

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2021-07-18

I loved our trip to Orkney in 2017

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2021-06-30

Born and raised in Orkney, talks about how her upbringing influences her work, along with a little insight into her experience as a self employed artist!
⭐️ Find out more about "Working in: The Arts" here: https://t.co/U9OQPR5ME9

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2021-06-25

This week's is Sylvia Wishart's Untitled, 1966 currently on display as part of our exhibition -Orkney and the Artist

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2021-06-23

Happy Monday! ✨ Introducing , a comic artist drawing one of the stories in our upcoming comic anthology, "Working In: The Arts"! ⭐️

"I was born and grew up in Orkney, so a lot of my inspiration is drawn from the sea, the natural world and folklore."

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2021-05-10

The most famous Dark Elves of fiction, the Drow, derive their name from the Trow, a spirit of Orkney and Shetland not dissimilar from trolls or elves in function and temperament.

🖼: Brom

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2021-04-07

It's a little known fact that Bird Man was in fact a real person and you can find him at Cathedral in

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2021-04-07