Tolkien – Graeme Skinner

Barrow-downs

8 September 2021 Graeme Skinner

Having been re-reading the early chapters of Lord of the Rings recently I decided to try illustrating the Barrow-downs, my first attempt in watercolour was a mess, not sure why it just didn’t work at all. So I attempted a quick digital piece, but it looked weird and so fake it was embarrassing 😉 my only option of course was to combine watercolour and digital – well, it wasn’t my only option as that failed badly too 🙂 so I started an acrylic version, I was almost happy with the…

Stone Giants

15 August 2021 Graeme Skinner

Quick watercolour…

Dark journeys

11 August 2021 Graeme Skinner

It’s strange how the mind works, I started sketching a sea arch, though I don’t know why 😉 anyway, the rocks kept growing and the sketch changed from a sea scene to Gandalf starting one of his dark journeys…

Imladris

24 July 2021 Graeme Skinner

I’ve been pondering Rivendell, or mainly the architecture of the main building, the only way I could really get it sorted in my head was to try and paint it. I had more fun doing the cliffs than the building itself – but that’s the way things go sometimes. I ended up using photoshop to correct a couple of bits of landscape and add some more mist.

Clippety-clop

14 July 2021 Graeme Skinner

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…