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 😉
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Tag: lord of the rings
Clippety-clop
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…
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We had the opportunity to visit the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibition at the Bodleian, Oxford earlier this month as we were visiting the area (okay, we visited Oxfordshire because the exhibition was on ;-)). I had read various reviews online both from friends and in the media and was rather keen to see it for myself. The exhibition didn’t disappoint, seeing the original maps that J.R.R.T. and his son worked on was something I never thought I’d see, and his original illustrations were simply amazing. I must admit to…
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I have a for a while been tinkering with a digital piece for the theme of the month ‘competition’ over on John Howe‘s website, the them Dawn’s Early Light was one that appealed to me but the digital piece really wasn’t working out as I wanted it to. For some reason the line from Lord of the Rings kept going through my head “Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,” so I decided to play with type instead of banging my head against the wall with the failing digital…
Read MoreIt’s not just a book…
More on the ‘book’ theme for the John Howe forum, whilst I used The Lord of the Rings here it could apply to almost any book. It’s really not just about the book, it’s about what the book brings out of you or what it makes you feel.
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