Posts Tagged ‘painting’
From photo to painting
I decided to work from one of my photographs taken during this trip into a watercolour. Here is the reference image -
And here is the watercolour – 
I need to practice a bit more getting a few more layers into the background, but it was an enjoyable painting to work on in the end.
Wandering Wizard
This painting is something of a departure from what I had intended to paint, but then when you are painting something for a wandering theme a slight departure is to be expected. Anyway, the other day I was sitting reading a few pages of Lord of the Rings – the section where Gandalf leads Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli into Meduseld, and I had a clear idea what I had to paint. It’s strange really, whenever I paint something from Tolkien I want to include all the details I see in my head, this time I really just wanted to feature the wandering wizard who annoys Wormtongue so much.
So, this is a quick A4 watercolour of Gandalf, his old grey cloak in rags covering his new white garb as he shuffles and stoops his way to the presence of Theoden. Now I really want to paint the full hall, with shafts of light picking out different details, and the other characters in place.
High Snockrigg (again)
Following the sketch of High Snockrigg and Others (link) I decided to try a small watercolour of the scene.
It became a little frustrating not getting chance to properly do all the trees as I kept pausing to do other things, next time I may do the smaller trees differently, but generally I thought the result was acceptable.
Wandering Mind
I’ve been trying to get some ideas together for a painting, I know the basic idea of what I want to achieve at the end, it’s the bits that go into it that are causing the problems. So rather than try and sketch out the full scene I’ve been playing with different elements of it. Naturally this led to my mind wandering and I ended up with a couple of Tolkien related sketches 
First one of the Three-Farthings Stone in the Shire -
Then there was one of a couple of Hobbits returning home after a wander -
Not sure if it helped plan the painting, but they were fun to do 
