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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:24 pm
by marbretherese
elentarivarda wrote:I've got pencils and a drawing pad though, so I'll have to start up some Tolkien drawings to share!
Yes please, Varda! I love the drawing you posted and would like to see more!
Iolanthe, your Glaurung is
wonderful and I think you
should take him along to the Oxonmoot next year. Why not stir 'em up a bit!
I think I prefer your 'Spirit of the Trees' the other way up, the blue half looks like a reflection in water if you turn the picture upside down - even though it's not a true mirror image. A sort of trompe l'oeil to get the observer thinking!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:24 pm
by Iolanthe
elentarivarda wrote:I've got pencils and a drawing pad though, so I'll have to start up some Tolkien drawings to share!
Fantastic 
!!! I'm really pleased, Varda
.
Glad everyone like the dragon. Can you tell I also have an obsession with dinosaurs? When Jusrassic Park came out I was in scary heaven
.
You can't beat wet-in-wet washes to create that 'glowing' feeling.
marbreterese wrote:I think I prefer your 'Spirit of the Trees' the other way up, the blue half looks like a reflection in water if you turn the picture upside down - even though it's not a true mirror image. A sort of trompe l'oeil to get the observer thinking!!!
It is a bit like a reflection, but when you turn it that way round the grass (if it is grass, I'm not sure...) is then in the sky
. The picture is also quite interesting sideways
.
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:44 pm
by Merry
This is terrific! Thanks to our artists for their visions. Very different dragons, yet both authentic in their own ways.
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:12 pm
by Riv Res
Not to change the subject from dragons...
, but this is the reincarnation of Green Hill Country, reworked from the yellow peril previously posted.
© Rabbit Ridge Art
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:44 am
by Riv Res
Riv Res wrote:Not to change the subject from dragons...
, but this is the reincarnation of
Green Hill Country, reworked from the yellow peril previously posted.
© Rabbit Ridge Art
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:27 am
by Lindariel
Hi! Back from holiday vacation, and what goodies await me! Marvelous, marvelous work ladies, I am SO jealous of your talent! I can only manage stick figures.
Iolanthe, the trees are just beautiful and so dreamlike. And Glaurung is magnificently scary! WOW!
EV, your dragon is terrific, and I too would love to see the full piece if you can get it scanned.
Riv, the Green Hill Country looks so inviting. I can practically feel the grass under my feet and smell the scones baking in the kitchen of the little hobbit home.
Thank you all so much for your beautiful work!
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:55 pm
by Iolanthe
I really like the new version Riv
. The border with the two tall trees and the celtic knot design works really well, inviting you into the picture. And the trees in the picture are much more like an English landscape now. I love the hobbit holes with the smoke curling out of the chimneys and the fact that the painting makes you want to walk through it and see what's over the hills. Bravo
.
Lindariel wrote:Iolanthe, the trees are just beautiful and so dreamlike.
That's just what I was aiming for
- a sort of memory of the Trees now lost, lingering with the Sun and Moon.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:49 pm
by Riv Res
Thanks for the input. I am trying to work towards a Tolkien series incorporating the celtic knots. This is what I believe I have settled on for Green Hill Country.
© Rabbit Ridge Art
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:13 pm
by Iolanthe
Nice! Less busy than the other border. I think it works very well
.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:14 pm
by marbretherese
Riv, I like your latest version of "The Green Hill Country" very much - the trees within the painting are defnitely more English now. I love the idea of the trees on the border overlapping into the picture itself - and the most recent Celtic knotwork along the bottom is wonderful! particularly the subtle changes of colour behind the fancy stuff in front.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:56 pm
by Merry
I love all the green! And the borders, too. Well done!
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:34 pm
by Iolanthe
I've been making good use of my Christmas break and done some more 'chuck some paint on a page and see what it looks like' dabbling. I was going to throw this painting away after doing the initial washes but marbretherese told me not to and to give it another go. So - after much fiddling and rather a lot of white gouache to make up for it's shortcomings:
Fingolfin crossing the Helcaraxë
© Iolanthe
It's more of a watercolour and gouache sketch than a finished painting. I might go back to it again and re-do it now I know what it's supposed to look like
!
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:47 pm
by Riv Res
Iolanthe, how large is the paper that you painted this on?
BTW...it is brilliant!!
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:48 pm
by Iolanthe
Small - only 11 1/2" x 9". I'm trying to stick to paper that will fit under my scanner, and even so there is a strip of darker blue sky missing at the top that balances it better.
Because it's small you can see the texture of the rough 300 g/m paper I've used. It's a pretty tough paper that you can scrub away at and this one got well scrubbed
.
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:11 pm
by elentarivarda
ooo, this is wonderful Iolanthe! I love snow and blue and white - so this painting pretty much has it all for me!