hobbits – Graeme Skinner

The Old Forest

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:41:17 +0000

Another Tolkien themed illustration, this time it’s the Old Forest

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.

In the Shire

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:30:05 +0000

I was planning to work on a large illustration from Tolkien’s Middle Earth, however things kept going wrong and I was becoming more and more frustrated, so I decided to make a quick visit to the Shire with my watercolours to relax.

Under the stars

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:41:41 +0000

I’ve had a few ideas for star filled paintings recently, mainly they’ve been science fiction with sleek space ships zooming around. However the other day I returned to a Tolkien theme of Hobbits wandering under a star filled sky. The main aim was to make the Hobbits just visible enough to be in the painting yet make it believable that they were wandering under the stars with little to no Moon to illuminate the scene. Another aim was to use real star positions rather than just splatter the painting with dots of paint, so the stars in this painting are pretty accurate (I didn’t measure the exact positions you understand, but placed them in the vicinity of where they should be).

As dark paintings are hard to view small you can click the above image for a larger version