Last month I started on a painting of Niggle working away, it was for the theme of the month over at John Howe’s website. The theme was ‘The Bestest Book Ever – Imagine this is your dream commission, the book you’ve ALWAYS wanted to do a cover for.‘ So an illustration of Niggle was an obvious one for me to attempt. Sadly it was overtaken by real life events and I could not fit in any spare time to splash paint around, the month was gone all to quickly and the new theme was ‘The Real You – Self-portrait month. this is your chance to paint the inner you, or the outer you, as the case may be. Or to assume the psersona of your dreams.‘ The Niggle illustration seemed to fit the new theme perfectly, after all according to Tolkien “Niggle was a painter. Not a very successful one, partly because he had many other things to do. Most of these things he thought were a nuisance; but he did them fairly well, when he could not get out of them: which (in his opinion) was far too often.” I’d already posed up the ladder as Niggle, and the board was roughly marked up, so I just had to slap a little paint around 😉
