The theme of the month for July over on John Howe’s website is ‘Books‘, which started me thinking about books and what they mean to different people. To me they often open doors to unexpected places, or sometimes to expected places but where you often discover something new 😉 So this is a composite in photoshop of a book opening a doorway into the Shire, with a willing Hobbit ready for a wander 🙂
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In the Shire
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.
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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…
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A quick sketch from today, it felt like I’d not visited the Shire for far too long so here we have two random Hobbits pausing by the Three Farthing Stone 🙂
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Another month another theme of the month to think about over at John-Howe.com
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