Another Tolkien themed illustration, this time it’s the Old Forest 😉
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Tag: illustration
Trying
There’s a passage in LotRs that’s always appealed to me as a possible one to attempt as an illustration, and whilst there are a few bits of this attempt that I like it still needs some work for me to think of it as finished. That, or I just need to try again 😉 For those wondering the text this is based on comes from the Fellowship of the Ring, book 2, chapter 2, The Council of Elrond… And this I will say to you, Boromir, ere I end. Lonely…
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My ongoing obsession with painting Rivendell, based on Lauterbrunnen, continues 😉 This is version number…. okay I’ve stopped counting, the previous version I finished early December last year is still in the file marked ‘what was I thinking’. What I really need to do in order to paint Rivendell as I see it in my head is to learn French, take six months off work, then move into Lauterbrunnen with a few sketch pads and a gallon or two of paint.
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As it’s the final theme over on John Howe’s website it’s all about endings, so I decided to paint a scene from near the end of the Hobbit… I had previously tried this scene in pen and ink but thought paint was more appropriate this time 😉
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I had a small piece of watercolour board left over from the last project so I decided to practice mixing greys, as you do 😉 Needing a subject I opted to paint one of Tolkien’s illustrations of the Lonely Mountain. Grey has never been an easy colour to mix for me so the rubble strewn and scorched landscape surround the front gate was an ideal subject.
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