Members' Art, Prose and Poetry

elentarivarda · Post by **elentarivarda** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:58 pm

Oooo, I love the white trees! They are lovely paintings!

I like the writing on the tree, that's a nice touch. What is written on there?

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:58 pm

EV, those would be the historic words Aragorn/Elessar spoke (and Viggo sang) at his coronation:

Et Earello Endorenna utulien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!

Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.

Aragorn chose to repeat the words spoken by Elendil when he arrived by ship to Middle-earth after the destruction of Numenor. Highly fitting that they should appear enscribed on the White Tree in this lovely painting!

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:04 pm

I was playing around this weekend...

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:28 pm

That's lovely, Riv - I particularly like the Elvish design at the top and the light shining through the clouds!

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:02 pm

I love the view! It puts us in the position of Bilbo, I think, looking from his little bedroom. It also captures a kind of fall feeling and light outside, which I like. I think you were trying to do something fallish with the vine around the outside of the window, which is the only thing I don't like as much: the tan color doesn't add anything to the composition. IMHO, of course!

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:31 pm

Actually Merry, my thought was that the leaves would be carved wood for the window frame. Like you...not sure about the effect.

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:09 pm

Oh!

I can see that now. I thought you were going for a kind of inside=outside thing. Sorry about that!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:16 pm

I wish it was my window! It's lovely

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I love the idea of the carved leaves

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Airwin · Post by **Airwin** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:42 pm

A beautiful view Riv!

I really like how the leaves frame the window. I guess you could try them in a different color, but they work for me as they are.

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:34 pm

I am working on a new version. We'll see how it turns out.

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:53 pm

Just lovely! Can't wait to see the new version.

Philipa · Post by **Philipa** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:07 pm

I like this one too. The wooden leaves idea is a good one if you can figure a way to replicate wood. One idea is to remove the center stripe on all the leaves. Natural leaves have this to some degree but wood would not (oh what a great tree word pun!). Removing the stripe though may make it two dimensional.

Terrific start though.

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:08 pm

While we're waiting to see Riv's revised "Window on Rivendell", I might as well post the painting I finished last weekend . . . it went wrong from the very beginning and continued going wrong until the very end (sigh). So at least it's consistent

and it did teach me a lot!!

Cerin Amroth

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:27 pm

It may have gone wrong marbretherese, but its still vibrant and alive. I love what you are doing in your technique with people.

I am learning the hard way that I am better off letting the watercolor do its thing rather than forcing it to do something the medium is not capable of doing.

You are light years ahead of me in this and so I am returning to the classroom next week for more lessons.

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:07 pm

thanks Riv! trouble is, if you let the watercolour do it's thing you end up with something totally different to what you intended. This was supposed to be a landscape . . . with no people in it at all

I'm also in the classroom once a week at the moment, doing Life Drawing. Lots of charcoal and messy fingers . . . but watercolour's still my favourite medium!