Jenny Dolfen

Sun and Moon pins

I'm loving these to BITS. 

I'd love some opinions here. I've noticed that smaller pins are bought much more than larger ones, even if the cost difference is negligible. If you're a pin p...

New Tolkien themed pins

Back in the pin mood! The Dormice haven't even arrived yet but I'm planning new ones... 

Here's Arien/The Sun and Tilion/The Moon. Gosh, I hope they can get that sort of detail.  2021-04-07 14:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Dormice sticker sheet and some extended MarchofMaedhros

While I'm waiting for my D&Dormice pins to arrive (about three more weeks...), I've painted a little assortment of "inventory" for dormouse adventurers that I'll include with pin orders as a st...

Maedhros (no gouache)

So, I started this in gouache, bravely kept going through what I hoped was jsut the ugly stage, but it just kept getting uglier and uglier... so I redid it in my sketchbook and gave it the watercol...

Maedhros sketch for gouache

I'm totally in love with this. And scared silly, haha. I'll transfer this sketch to paper tomorrow, for my first ever gouache Maedhros. With my last few gouache sprees, I never even had the confide...

Whoa.

I'm beginning to think the only gouache course I need is someone who holds my hand during the "ugly stage" of a painting (i. e. the first 90%) and tells me, "It'll be all right". 

I swit...

Gouache attempt

I told you I'm going to take a gouache course next month; I decided to get in a bit of practice before that. I started out using gouache much as I would watercolour, very diluted with a lot of wate...

Colour swatches fail

When you're decided to get into gouache again, and make yourself a great little palette, and dutifully do colour swatches... 

... only to remember that gouache is a "what you see is what...

MarchofMaedhros, Q&A

I dug even deeper into the archives (the ones in my closet which screams "tidy me!!"), and found some Maedhros sketches I've definitely never shared before. 

The one above comes up in my...

March of Maedhros, pin sale, and print plans

Here's another little MarchofMaedhros for you! I snuck it into 1996 (probably late 1995), into an art phase quarely in between Katherine Kurtz' Deryni Chronicles. There actually was no other Maedhr...

Q&A hangout postponed

Sorry guys, I have to postpone the hangout scheduled for this afternoon - a loved one is in hospital and I have to keep the phone lines free. <3 

I'll let you know when I can reschedu...

Aredhel and Maeglin

Working on a deadline there! To be put in my shop in forty-five minutes... They're already matted and I've framed a few of the new ones too. Photographing them might pose the greatest problem now -...

ACEO prints, AND US SHIPPING

*sing hallelujah!* 

I just opened all shipping to the US again, after ALL the old orders have arrived (or are at least accounted for), and ALL of the guinea pig orders from two weeks ago...

Dungeons & Dormice pin designs complete

I love the little splash of colour the Wizard adds. I think for most of the pins, I can give the pin company colour codes I've used before, but for those bright purples, I'm going to need my Panton...

The postman rang...

... just as I'd made myself a pot of tea.

I now have 2000 pretties.

And a pot of very strong, rather cold, tea. =D 

I'll be busy stamping and numbering, and hope to put them ...

Nerdanel, Feanor, and Finduilas, I think; Barbarians, pointed eaes, and a Q&A hangout!

Galadriel turned into someone else during the colouring (you won't believe how often this happens. Especially with beautiful, light-haired women, strangely). I think she's Finduilas. I'm really hap...

Three new ACEOs

Here's Nerdanel, Feanor, and Galadriel! I'll definitely finish them for the next TinyTuesday. Not sure there'll be (many, if any) more - school will finally start again on Monday*, with split class...

First four pin designs

I'm having the time of my life designing pins on the iPad. In Photoshop, even on my graphics tablet, any swooshy line I wanted to do always worked in the third or fourth attempt, never on the first...

Pudgy little Paladin, ACEO (print) plans, and homework planner Maedhros

I seem to have an awful lot to talk to you about; I hope you're not tired of these emails yet? 

Here's the first of the pin designs: Pudgy little Paladin Pin! I'll use some of the poses ...

Dungeons&Dormice pins - poll

I finally want to do the dormouse pins that I put off since April! I'm also going to reorder the Silmarils, so if you missed out on those, they'll be back in stock.

I can't make eleven D&...

Tiny Tuesday is almost here: ACEOs on Etsy ... and deep fanart territory

So, those of you who have been waiting for the original art to drop - only one and a half hours to go! Originals are not included in coupon codes, but I made the prices a little less than I said I ...

Three more ACEOs, and That Day Maedhros Became a Looker

I did Glorfindel and another Maglor yesterday (looking less like Brad Pitt), plus another Fingolfin. The paper and I had a severe fight, and I'm not sure who won. I'd got new Torchon paper from Fab...

F...fun size Friday?

Four more ACEOs for Tuesday! (I think all of them look just terrific as a set, and have already looked into printing options.) 

Here are Éomer, Faramir, Celebrimbor, and Lúthien. ...

Tiny Tuesday previews!

The Maedhros and Finrod I did first took terribly long - not the painting itself, but the drying in between! So I actually did the next four simultaneously, always working on one while the others d...

Tiny Finrod and my first ever Maedhros

Finished tiny Finrod yesterday! When did I start putting him in teal and turquoise? Probably fairly recently, as I can't think of a lot of coloured Finrod art at all. 

It's also MarchofM...

ACEO art preview

Next four tiny Finweans! This time, I sketched them in Procreate (with ref), so I can have slightly more detail in the lines and general forms. These are so much fun! Fingon, Finrod, Fingolfin, and...

#MarchofMaedhros #TinyTuesday

Now that's some hashtags we're going to have some fun with! =D 

I hereby declare MarchofMaedhros a thing. I'll post some older stuff and maaaaaybe some new ones. I should have enough to ...

American guinea pigs wanted! *ALL GONE!*

Thanks so much, guys! =) 

After several months without US shipping, I'm feeling brave and want to send out a white dove, to see whether there is land across the ocean. And may...

Maitimo's fox (finished)

Those bright colours make me happy. ^________^

The dandelions were an experiment I was really scared of - I actually scanned the piece before I painted them, so I could fall back on the digit...

Maitimo's fox - wip

I just love the combination of orange and pale purple. Granulating paints were used lavishly.