Starting to paint + Angband sketches
Added 2019-02-04 17:45:14 +0000 UTCThe general colour scheme is in place; now for the fun parts. :)
Probably not before Wednesday though - conferences all day tomorrow... But I'll take my sketchbook! I've started doing quick Silmarillion watercolour sketches - something that I haven't done in about ten years. It was either quick and pencil, or watercolour and meticulous, at last for Tolkien. I started out with something that warranted quick and anguished. This new sketchbook of mine is gorgeous.
(BTW, I didn't colour the second one *during* the conference. Otherwise, colleagues might have become alarmed.)
New Patreon shoutout! Hi there Linda - great to see you! For some reason, I didn't get an email notifying me you'd signed up; or I'd have welcomed you sooner!
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And I only saw your welcome now, thank you! Good to be here. I think it is definitely time to fit some Tolkien rereading into my schedule this year, maybe after I recover after my most recent emotional book ordeal. ;)
Linda Antonsson
2019-02-10 10:57:54 +0000 UTCCant stop thinking about this passage, even though it relateres to someone else bring brought before Morgoth (and defying him): “what hope he has who is haled to Angband- the bale most bitter, the Balrogs’ torment?”
Liv Klein
2019-02-05 18:36:38 +0000 UTCThe speed paint of Maedhros on the right is HEARTBREAKING in all the right ways <3
Steffi
2019-02-05 17:23:03 +0000 UTCEven when you put Maedhros through the mill, the results are so beautiful. Here’s another grown woman with a full-time job that needs to stop and cry for a while. Looking forward to The Betrayal’s progress... it’s looking great already.
Laura Michel
2019-02-04 21:52:25 +0000 UTCI did not really cry when I read the book for the few first times, although the stories moved me greatly. But I do now, when I re-read it, with your paintings in mind. It is like all those terrible things are happening to someone I know and care for. (And whether it is normal for a grown woman with an occupation related to interpretation of hard facts to become emotional over fictional characters and paintings of them - that is, in fact, irrelevant question. Emotional is Good. Full stop.)
Zane Libiete
2019-02-04 20:54:10 +0000 UTCOuch! Right in the feels.
Lintie
2019-02-04 19:14:35 +0000 UTCGot it. Thank you. Agreed.
Steven Tryon
2019-02-04 19:00:32 +0000 UTCThe Betrayal looks gorgeous. As does dear, anguished Maedhros. Sigh. My poor boy.
PL
2019-02-04 18:32:40 +0000 UTCEmotional is Good. (And helps bridge torturous report conferences, when you remind yourself that other, if fictional, people are worse off!)
Jenny Dolfen
2019-02-04 18:22:29 +0000 UTCWhy does it look so good when you paint tortured Maedhros ...? It shouldn't. But it does.
Ninchen
2019-02-04 18:19:31 +0000 UTCI'd call it one of my half-missing scenes. We know Maedhros' side of it; Fëanor burning the ships, after Maedhros naively thought they would now be sent back to fetch the rest of the host (and touchingly asking whether they can bring Fingon first). Retrospectively, I think this was the scene that first made Maedhros stand out for me when I read the Silmarillion; of someone who, despite the evil he has been drawn into, is good at heart. We don't know how Fingon felt as he saw the ships burning from across the Sea; we know the host as a whole recognised Fëanor's betrayal. Considering that Fingon later lays aside any grievance and comes to Maedhros' aid, though he didn't know Maedhros hadn't forgotten their friendship, I wanted to explore this moment across the space between them.
Jenny Dolfen
2019-02-04 18:15:53 +0000 UTCWhen you get a chance, can you you tell us more about the betrayal scene? I remember the burning generally but not the details of what you are seeing here.
Steven Tryon
2019-02-04 18:06:10 +0000 UTC
