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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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…
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I’ve been pondering Rivendell, or mainly the architecture of the main building, the only way I could really get it sorted in my head was to try and paint it. I had more fun doing the cliffs than the building itself – but that’s the way things go sometimes. I ended up using photoshop to correct a couple of bits of landscape and add some more mist.
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