bag end – Graeme Skinner

In the quiet of the world

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:49:40 +0000

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 image from my head onto paper. Of course now I’ve finished there’s a few things I’d like to change next time, and a version you could manipulate in 3D would be fun, so you can step out of the door yourself

Askew

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:18:58 +0000

I sat down to paint the Hobbits returning to Bag End during the Scouring of the Shire, I wasn’t too impressed with the grassy hill but hey, it’s grass, it’s difficult the sheds went fine, in fact I was quite happy to paint them* the foreground was a mixed bag but went okay in the end. It’s when I turned to the Hobbits that things went askew, they wouldn’t stand still, or stood in awkward positions, one gained height, and another had hair issues…. in the end the painting that I saw in my head didn’t appear on paper and I need to think about how to proceed (probably generally with my painting ;-)).

Two of the Hobbits were removed in the end in Photoshop as I didn’t like them.

*Perhaps I should take up shed painting.

Bag End

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:44:33 +0000

Just fiddling with some little doodles in watercolour, this time it’s one of the windows of Bag End

Arriving at Bag End

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:59:41 +0000

Four dwarves arriving at Bag End, straight from the book I may paint them differently in twelve months of course

This was a large watercolour which I stopped and started too many times, lost my way, forgot what I was doing, but I got there in the end (The majority is watercolour, but there’s a touch of gouache, some coloured pencil, and a bit of Photoshop included for good measure).