A few people recommended Daniel Smith watercolours to me when I posted my last blog post. I got curious and found a place to order them online in Germany. I got myself Shadow Violet, Quinacridone Deep Gold and Indian Red (which I’d run out of anyway). The owner of the shop very kindly also included [...]

@темы: watercolour, tolkien, technique, silmarillion, painting, maedhros, art, Daniel Smith

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Finished piece (here’s the process). The post was becoming so long that I decided not to hide the finished image at the bottom! Click to enlarge! Detail shots (click to enlarge):

@темы: watercolour, tolkien, sons of feanor, silmarillion, painting, maglor, maedhros, horse, gouache, curufin, celegorm, caranthir, art, amrod, amras, F

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In painting this one, I was facing the challenge to have a lot of reds, even in the sky, and horses – which sometimes leads to dangerously girly-calendary motifs. So far, I seem to have succeeded in not falling over on that side of the fence. I know that because my daughter, a great fan [...]

@темы: watercolour, walkthrough, tolkien, technique, sons of feanor, silmarillion, painting, maglor, maedhros, how-to, horse, gouache, curufin, celegorm, caranthir, art, amrod, amras, F

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I sat down yesterday for a reality check. Am I deluded? These all look different to me, even without their characteristic hair. So yes, they are all related (fathers and brothers and sons and daughters and cousins), so they are all immortal and ageless, and they are all beautiful in the same ethereal Elven way, [...]

@темы: turgon, tolkien, sketch, silmarillion, nerdanel, maglor, maedhros, galadriel, finrod, fingon, fingolfin, finarfin, drawing, curufin, celegorm, caranthir, art, aredhel, amrod, amras, F

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… or, how to avoid cluttering up mass scenes. On your second attempt. In this painting, I have such an amount of detail in the lineart that I have to be careful not to kill the picture with it.Let me give you a fun example of how *not* to do it, from exactly ten years [...]

@темы: F, Uncategorized, art, celegorm, curufin, fingolfin, fingon, finwe, how-to, maedhros, maglor, painting, silmarillion, tolkien, turgon, tutorial, walkthrough, watercolour

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(Drawing the Drawing of the sword always results in semantic weirdness.) It was in early 1994 that I realised this scene was one tough cookie. Two Elves, one at an arm’s and a sword’s length from the other? That means a bit of Elf at the margins of a picture and rather a lot of [...]

@темы: F, art, celegorm, curufin, drawing, drawing of the sword, fingolfin, fingon, maedhros, maglor, silmarillion, tolkien, turgon

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Added just a bit of colour to the Hobbit Feest sketch of F

@темы: watercolour, tolkien, thangorodrim, sketch, painting, meadhros, maedhros, art, angband, F

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Following the thought of what would have become of Elur

@темы: art, illustration, maedhros, pastel, silmarillion, sketch, sketchbook, tolkien

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Too many ideas, too many commissions, too little time, aaaah! … I love my life. It can stay like this.

@темы: amras, art, beren, caranthir, celegorm, curufin, horse, luthien, maedhros, maglor, silmarillion, sketch, tolkien

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Loads of leisure at school to scribble stuff in between lessons! Maedhros trudging back to his own people after his rescue and recovery; Maedhros being welcomed by his brothers with what borders on exuberance (for guilt-ridden F

@темы: F, amras, art, caranthir, celegorm, curufin, horse, maedhros, maglor, silmarillion, sketch, sketchbook, tolkien

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“And the cruel servants of Celegorm seized his young sons and left them to starve in the forest. Of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath; but his search was unavailing, and of the fate of Elur

@темы: art, maedhros, silmarillion, sketch, tolkien

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And look! I’m on the BBC!   Here are some of the quick watercolour portraits I did over the weekend:

@темы: art, art show, eowyn, fingon, lord of the rings, loughborough, maedhros, painting, silmarillion, sketch, tolkien, treebeard, watercolour

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Run, little Orcses, run. I’m proud to announce that I have found the paper/paint combo that I will stick with to the end of days. Doc Martin’s liquid watercolours – no surprises there – and Canson Montval. The Canson students’ paper is good, but tends to cake up under too many layers of paint, and [...]

@темы: art, how-to, maedhros, painting, silmarillion, tolkien, walkthrough, watercolour

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Maedhros told me, in that very subtle and persuasive way of his, that he wanted a powerful painting. Not fluffy. No get well swords. No kick ass ivy. And by all means no barbed chains. He was okay with stump, though. demanded it, in fact. I imagine that this is after he has just been [...]

@темы: art, maedhros, silmarillion, sketch, tolkien

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Pencil lineart and Dr Martin’s liquid watercolours on Canson paper Detail shots:

@темы: art, maedhros, maglor, painting, silmarillion, tolkien, watercolour

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So, after years of sparking puns aimed at me for avoiding the colour green in my paintings, I’m endeavouring to tackle that fear of mine. The funny thing is: This seems to be a common thing among artists. James Gurney calls it “The Green Problem“. This year, I’ve set out to overcome some of my [...]

@темы: art, maedhros, maglor, painting, silmarillion, tolkien, watercolour

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I can’t seem to stop. O_o Maglor and Maedhros after the latter’s rescue. And one that I’ve been wanting to (re)do for years – the Prophecy of the North. “Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation [...]

@темы: maglor, maedhros, tolkien, sketch, silmarillion, fingon, fingolfin, finarfin, drawing, art, F

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I’ve done it. Written my first Silmarillion fanfic in seventeen years. O_o Maedhros upon Thangorodrim. Warning: Disturbing themes. Injury, torture, madness. This probably won’t be easy to understand unless you’ve read the Silmarillion. Disclaimer: I don’t own the character, though I promise to return him in good condition. As far as text-faithfulness is concerned. Maedhros [...]

@темы: fanfiction, maedhros, silmarillion, tolkien, writing

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Sorry, no progress shots for this one. I painted it in a sort of delirium. I used to do this all the time when I was younger – sitting down with a bottle of coke and my paints, and emerging four to eight hours later with a finished painting that I couldn’t remember even thinking [...]

@темы: angband, art, maedhros, painting, silmarillion, tolkien, watercolour

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Poor love. Yes, I feel bad already. I went back and forth with the chain fettering him to the wall; in the end, I left it there – I don’t think they’d trust him to stay put without it, and the chain makes it clear he still has hands (and arms) back there somewhere. O_o [...]

@темы: angband, art, drawing, maedhros, silmarillion, tolkien