lord of the rings – Graeme Skinner

Durin’s Stone

7 March 2023 Graeme Skinner

Working towards a Durin’s Stone/Mirrormere painting, I enjoyed Celebdil, Fanuidhol, Caradhras (though one wasn’t as defined as I wanted it to be ;-)). The Dimrill Stair was somewhere I could have spent a week or two, then the foreground was a bit of a trial. The reflection in Mirrormere was put in using Photoshop in the end and I also added a bit of mist at that point. Looking forward to trying this scene in a larger format in oil, though I need to sketch Durin’s Stone a few more times…

Still searching

22 January 2023 Graeme Skinner

I’ve been looking for Weathertop for a while now, trying to get the landscape fixed in my mind so I can then get it down on paper. After one or two (actually a few more) sketches I thought I’d try a colour study. So, here’s my latest attempt at Weathertop…

Leaving Bag End

28 December 2021 Graeme Skinner

I came up with this idea of painting scenes from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with the night sky as it would actually appear on that date and time, so I went through LOTRs and marked up all the references to when the night sky was visible, there’s quite a few references 😉 Anyway, I decided for the first illustration to work out how the sky would have looked as the left Bag End, then I painted the scene – the sky took far too long, then,…

Cover reimagined

11 November 2021 Graeme Skinner

It’s a steam punk theme this month over on John’s website, so I decided to steam pun a Lord of the Rings cover 😉

Clippety-clop

14 July 2021 Graeme Skinner

It’s horsey time for the theme of the month over on John Howe’s website, or rather it’s Saddle Up – as I’m not brilliant at drawing horses I opted for a more graphical approach and decided to try and paint some flags on display many years after the Return of the King 😉 I started off painting this in watercolour but it didn’t go well so went digital…