illustration – Graeme Skinner

Lost

20 August 2020 Graeme Skinner

This months theme over on John Howe’s website is Merlin… Bit of an Arthurian theme here – Merlin the enchanter in all his various forms and origins, from Taliesin, Myrrddin, etc., all the way through to The Once and Future King. I went on a bit of a wander, with the pencil that is, and I spent far too much time sketching Camelot high on a hill, with plenty of mist. So it’s only appropriate that I ended up painting Merlin, lost in thought and in the wood 😉

Tirith Aear

17 June 2020 Graeme Skinner

I’d call this a small doodle, but in reality it’s 73x54cm 😉 I decided to do something in carbon pencil again as I haven’t used them for a while, so I ended up trying a Tolkien themed piece – Tirith Aear, now I’ve tried this version of it a version in oil might be in order. Whilst the majority of this was completed in carbon pencil I did add some highlights back in photoshop as they vanished when I snapped the photo of it.

Isildur and Anárion

8 November 2018 Graeme Skinner

For some reason the image of Isildur and Anárion looming above the Anduin was niggling me so I decided to put paint to paper 😉 it worked out well as the theme for November over on John Howe’s website is water 🙂

Caradhras

23 December 2017 Graeme Skinner

Bit of a watercolour doodle to get me back in the ‘zone’ 😉 Gandalf wandering towards Caradhras with a bit of snow in the air (also in his hair).

To the memory of Celebrían

25 February 2017 Graeme Skinner

Many moons ago I started work on an illustration, it was a simple idea, however the execution of the piece took a little longer than anticipated 😉 The theme I was working towards was Statuesque over on John Howe’s website – so I decided to illustrate the statue placed high above Rivendell to the memory of Celebrían, though the scene shown is many years after the last of the Elves had left for the West so the statue was in a poor state of repair….