Artistic – Graeme Skinner

Niggle would approve.

11 August 2018 Graeme Skinner

I started sketching a tree for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website, it was supposed to be a quick simple sketch, then I got too the branches. The good intentions of a quick doodle to get in the right frame of mind went out the window and I started to become a little obsessive over the branches, I ended up doodling away at each little branch ignoring pretty much everything else. However, I get the feeling I need to obsess over the branches of the next…

Wizards go a wandering

24 July 2018 Graeme Skinner

Trying to get ideas together for a painting, or maybe I should just say doodling for inspiration 😉 Anyway, this is a digital doodle of the two blue wizards briefly mentioned by Tolkien and pondered about by many ever since 🙂 Not happy with the first wizards colour, well it may grow on me, and perhaps I should change one of the hats….. first of all though I’ll collapse and sleep for an hour or three.

Alatar and Pallando drop by…

18 July 201818 July 2018 Graeme Skinner

A quick(ish) oil painting of Alatar and Pallando’s wizarding kit when they stopped by for a visit. I’ve not used oil paints in ages so this was more of an experiment to remind myself how things work as much as anything.

Beorn

15 June 2018 Graeme Skinner

I sat down to draw Beorn from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in his human form meeting Bilbo and Gandalf, so of course I ended up drawing Beorn in bear form, well, these things happen 😉

The Grey Towers

31 May 201831 May 2018 Graeme Skinner

I was reading through the Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist when the Theme of the Month for May popped up on John Howe’s website. So my mind turned to The Grey Towers which is a mountain range in Feist’s world, I did start painting them, and will return to it when time allows. As I was out and about rather than at the easel I ended up sketching The Grey Towers instead.