bag end

In the quiet of the world

30 October 202130 October 2021 Graeme Skinner

Tangents are quite interesting at times, and also quite frustrating. A while ago I started to think what the view would be from Bilbo’s front door if you reversed the Shire map (by Tolkien)… This of course led me to the illustration by Tolkien of the Hill… Which of course meant I needed to know how those buildings would look from the other side, the easiest solution of course is to do a quick mock up in 3D… In the end, sitting doodling was an easier solution to getting the…

Askew

25 March 202125 March 2021 Graeme Skinner

I sat down to paint the Hobbits returning to Bag End during the Scouring of the Shire, I wasn’t too impressed with the grassy hill but hey, it’s grass, it’s difficult 😉 the sheds went fine, in fact I was quite happy to paint them* the foreground was a mixed bag but went okay in the end. It’s when I turned to the Hobbits that things went askew, they wouldn’t stand still, or stood in awkward positions, one gained height, and another had hair issues…. in the end the painting…

8 June 2020 Graeme Skinner

Just fiddling with some little doodles in watercolour, this time it’s one of the windows of Bag End 😉

Arriving at Bag End

30 January 2012 Graeme Skinner

Four dwarves arriving at Bag End, straight from the book 😉 I may paint them differently in twelve months of course 🙂 This was a large watercolour which I stopped and started too many times, lost my way, forgot what I was doing, but I got there in the end 😉 (The majority is watercolour, but there’s a touch of gouache, some coloured pencil, and a bit of Photoshop included for good measure).