LotR Painting Study

[Aletheia]

Hey art fans! C'mon in here and discuss your favorite LotR paintings!
Here's how its gonna work:
*Im going to start out by posting the first pic for us to check out & talk on, but whenever it seems that talk has run down, someone else can post a new pic to discuss.
Anyone can pick the next picture, but it would be nice if we could stick to the artwork in our own WotR Gallery. If you have any questions about a pic you want to dicuss thats not from the gallery, just PM or email either me or Nessa ;)

Okay, Im gonna start. Big thanks to Ithil for suggesting this pic, its lovely!

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/tednasmith/valinor.jpg

Just to get ya'll started, here's a few questions you could answer/discuss~
*Did the artist depict this scene/character the way you pictured it?
*How does the artist use color/light to influence the mood of the painting?
*What do you like/dislike about the way the artist has protrayed it?

These are only ice-breakers to get us going, so feel free to dicuss whatever strikes your fancy! :grin: The more people that get involved, the more fun this can be, so jump on in!

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

:blush: As I told both you and Nessa, this is indeed one of my favourite Tolkien-based art pieces...I'm so glad you liked it, too!veryhappy

As with all of Nasmith's work, this one just feels realistic...the light, the colour,the reflection of the sun upon the sea, the radiant clouds... the overall picture just...draws you in!I have spent many a time gazing into it; it gives off an almost magical sensation...this IS Valinor, it has the feeling of the Blessed Realm and it is also one of the most incredible paintings I have ever seen! :grin:

[Cassandria]

I love:
-how he added Tolkien's flavors to his own art with the symbol on the sail
-how the mountains create such a majestic mood with the sun beams that I imagine Manwë looking down from the peak

The things I would change:
-the size of the ship in relation to the elves aboard
-I've always imagined the waves pounding the rock in greater furry

Overall, it is one of my favorites. :)

[IronHills Dwarf]

Overall I quite like it, especially the use of the badge on the sail, very nicely done..

Things I dislike would have to be the overly stylized wings on the ship. They just seem a bit strange and out of place. I wish the lighting effect was toned down just a teeny tiny bit, it kind of blinds me from noticing anything else at first (mayhap that was the intent though?).

My own image of this scene would probably have a different color scheme, with more straight up black and white tones to contrast with the coloring of the ship and less gold and purple. Also I never quite imagined the shore that way, I feel like it needs a beach perhaps, like a north sea beach on Scotland's west coast.

Is it just me or does anyone else see Cornwall in those cliffs (ones in the posted painting I mean)? :p

[Domlegolas]

Very beautiful colors of mountains, sky, sun and clouds... I like it, and it looks like very smooth but.... ocean, hmmm... Ocean looks like more clear than mountains.. Perhaps artist wants us to see mountain is too far from us... :huh:
But the ship is very clear so it doesnt looks like match... I feel like "puzzle" to put the ship on artwork... Get it? I hope that I explain (well) :)


Leia, next time u can tell which kind of art did artist used? For example, oil, acrylic, etc (yes, if u already know. If not, so it's fine)....

[Nessa the Dancer]

Hmmm, I think what you are saying Domlegoas is that the ship doesn't look part of the painting but was put in there afterwards is that right?

Hmmmm posibly it does look a bit like it's sitting on the water and not riding it if you know what I mean.

I gotta say the first thing my eye is drawn to is the golden mountain, but here is a problem for me, either the mountain is very high or the sky is very low, and I can't decide which it just looks a bit out of proportion.
Having said that I do like the sky colours, and the purple corosponds with the gold very well.

The painting is quite how I picture this scene I imagaine beaches with clifts behind them, maybe that is a beach of to the left it's hard to be sure.

Anyone would think I didn't like it lol but I do! As I said the colours work well together, maybe a bit less gold and a a bit more green would be nice but as Valinor is etherial and maybe more vibrant than Middle Earth in terms of colour it doesn't look so much out of place.

[Domlegolas]

Hmmm, I think what you are saying Domlegoas is that the ship doesn't look part of the painting but was put in there afterwards is that right?

Hmmmm posibly it does look a bit like it's sitting on the water and not riding it if you know what I mean.

EXCATLY!!!!!!!! :hooray:

[Domlegolas]

Nessa, I am looking at artwork again to think of what u did write about sky.... Interesting....
Colrs is beautiful.... But it looks like early evening of colors..... but sun isnt down or low... In addition, it reminds me to be in Sweden during summer to have the looking of the sun at late evening....

"Gold" yellow/orange and pink/purple is contrast, so it's difficult to ingore it ;) :shhh:

[Nessa the Dancer]

hehe I hope you don't mind me summerising what you say Domlegolas altough so far I seem to be doing quite well at it ;)

Yes, that is strange I think it is meant to be early evening by the look of the sky but the postion of the sun and the light on the land don't corospond with this. Maybe though that was the intention this is Valinor maybe they have weird sunsets in Valinor or Ted Nasmith wanted to show a difference between Middle Earth and Valinor.

[Domlegolas]

hehe I hope you don't mind me summerising what you say Domlegolas altough so far I seem to be doing quite well at it ;) .

:smooch:

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Maybe though that was the intention this is Valinor maybe they have weird sunsets in Valinor or Ted Nasmith wanted to show a difference between Middle Earth and Valinor.

I agree with u both. Possible "werid" or Ted Nasmith's view/opinion/image etc..

:blush:

[Domlegolas]

Ops, I did something wrong with second quote.. Hmm, I am not skill with computer mecry

Nessa Edit:
It's okay Domlegolas I sorted it out ;)

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Wonderful idea for a thread! The picture does have lovely colors and overall it is very good...and pictures does not have to be in a perfect perspective to be enoyable. This one certainly is wonderful!

What you see as weird with the scene is, I think, that the sky and mountain are made to look very far away and yet they seem too close to the cliffs, which actually are so close to the ship. I also think that the ship seems like it's added on top of the waves...maybe it's because of the distance to the mountains...somehow I feel that with such a distance some of the fabuolous light should fall on this side of the ship as well...and it lacks some shadow on the body...seems a bit flat....compared to the rest of the image.

I find myself looking for the harbour...I always imagined there would be one...or at least a pier, (sp?), by a beach....a white/golden beach. Love the emblem too!

[Aletheia]

I'm so happy this thread is popular! *huggles fellow mod Nessa*

I dont know that I ever said what i thought about it!
Well, overall I really like this picture, b/c I feel that the artist did a good job in capturing the feelings of the scene...which to me I guess would be hope, restoration, and final homecoming.
I appreciate the way he has the light filtering down through the louds, and the contrast of the violets and the coral/orange tones make for an etheral feel. The reflection of the light's rays across the water are well done and approprately porportioned. I would also like to point out that the shading done on the clouds is lovely, in my opinion.
My only bone to pick would be that that somehow the boat does seem to be more one-demensional than the background its set against, and that I personally pictured the ships much larger in comparison.
And I am very partial to harbors too...I live in one! :grin:
But its fantastic, still...beyond my scope of talent, and I admire it! Altogether a really lovely piece.

~Leia:rose:~

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I was thinking...maybe the artist did that on purpose...as to imply that life in Middle Earth IS another dimension that in Valinor? What do you guys think?

[Nessa the Dancer]

That's a posibility.

This ship is the passege to Valinor not valinor itsef and the Havens where it came from is just the link therefore making it more...simple in structure would be a good way of getting that across.

Something else I've noticed that could also be linked, the sail on the ship is a pale yellow not white.
Now in the context here I think that a white sail would look very out of place and stark. The pale yellow, contrasted with the stonger gold colour on shore looks as though the valinor light is bing directed onto the ship as it comes close, it's not as strong as the light on shore, but it's got close enough to Valinor to be illuminated by the light at the same time being linked back to Middle Earth due to the scale and dimension.

Does that make any sense lol

[Aletheia]

Hey guys, its time for a new painting ;)
This one is also by Ted Nasmith, and it was suggested by Cass (thanks hun!)

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/tednasmith/court.jpg

[Cassandria]

I just Love EVERYTHING about this painting...the sky brings memory of the crisp cool air on a stormy day in Arizona, a feeling we saw too rarely. The detail on the mountains are so rugged and imperfect that they look as real as a photograph to me. The architecture of the citadel is so eloquent...the golden tips and the shape of the windows. And the tower with it's winding windows seems to follow an interior spiral stairway. I love how he did the colors, the tree and the way he shows Gandalf and Pippin walking shows the intensity of their mood. I hope I get the opportunity to say "Bravo!" to Ted Nasmith this Saturday at Ringbearers Day! Thank you ~Leia :rose: ~ for posting this pic and letting me ramble! lol

[Domlegolas]

Oh, new painting :whoohoo:

I am looking at the painting for a few mins ;) I like snow at the mountain a lot because it shows some sunlights, and it makes me to feel liek realist in the painting.
Also cloud....
Cass, I agree with u about Gandalf and Pip, it adores to see them at the canvas. The white tree is good form, also "the lake" by white tree, very good reflex to the building and it feels silence. But the building brothers me little... hmmm.... Some way I see form and curve of the building, and other way I see flat... hmm....
But I love the sunlight at the snow.. (Woaw!) Background, Pip, Gandalf, The White tree and "lake".. It is very beautiful!!!

But I am curious if someone of u can see "shadow" behind White Tree???
Hmmm.. I am trying to figure out what is the "shadow"....

[Nessa the Dancer]

Ohh good someone made another suggestion :grin:

I think that with painings like this, there is more to them and more going on in them than you can see at first glance. The eye is drawn natually to the tall tower which is looks quite impressive agains the mountains - and though the citadel is white the mountains are even whiter which shows the difference between the stone and the snow.

The back of Pippin's cloak is slightly uplifted which shows that they are walking with some speed.

I'd never have noticed the windows if you hadn't mentioned them Cass, they do seem t follow a patteren as oposed to being scattered randomoly. It is nice that, even though Ted Nasmith was painting the outside of the citadel he was also thinking about how the inside might look as well.

[Cassandria]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'shadow behind the tree' Domlegolas. I do see a person standing in the far corner, probably one of the guards. I cropped and blew that corner of the pic up to see and did not see shadow behind it.

I love your choice of words to the reflection of the building in the water! :) I hadn't noticed that! :thumbs: It does depict 'silence'! :)

Nessa I resized the picture at work and had it on my desktop. I was lost in thought about finance one day and staring at the pic when I noticed the spiraling windows. lol

[Domlegolas]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'shadow behind the tree' Domlegolas. I do see a person standing in the far corner, probably one of the guards. I cropped and blew that corner of the pic up to see and did not see shadow behind it.

I love your choice of words to the reflection of the building in the water! :) I hadn't noticed that! :thumbs: It does depict 'silence'! :)



Thanks...
Silence, yeah.... It makes me "calm down"... Shadow, there's back of tree.. Hmm.. Perhaps I need glasses :grin:

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Now this image is so perfect...I can stare at it for ages! It's peak is perfectly ballanced against the towering mountains...the heavy sky makes me feel that something's threatening them. It's colors are so cool...the reflections in the pond...even so there is a quality that reminds me of the scene on Carradhras in the Fellowship. Absolutely wonderful!

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Hon I'm getting notifies of new images but nothings here when I go to look...also when I follow the link in hte post it doesn't work. What's up?

[Aletheia]

Ok...my apologies...Here is the new pic!
And any confusion that ensued can be blamed 100% on my inability to work hand-in-hand with technology...feel free to :trout: me, I deserve it! lol
Anyways, thanks to my goddess, Nessa ;), I have figured it out!

Let's dicuss the Brothers Hildebrandt's 'Wedding' Picture! :hooray:


http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/thebrothershildebrandt/wedding.jpg

K, so to me, I guess I like this as art for arts sake...it reminds me of the pictures at the begining of the Disney's Sleeping Beauty..a sort of cartoon-y style based off of Medieval fuedal art.....
I like it though, even though Aragorn's crown seems kind of large to me....
hmm...I am going to take another look.... :grin:

~Leia:rose:~

[Domlegolas]

Hmmm.... :mmmm:
It's too bright (for me)... Wedding's dressing of them both make more focus than other in the artwork....
It isnt my taste.. hmm... I dont know why... Possible too bright, I dont know but I would like to listen what do other will say, so I possible need some feedback ;)

:p

[Cuiel Rilwen]

It does look like they're blinded by a very strong sunlight of sorts...makes it a bit hard on the eye to look at. Obviously it's a good picture...even if a bit cartoonish. Esp. the sky. I like the trailing vines on the brickwalls. I agree tho that Aragorns crown looks...silly actually! I half expect him to pull a rabit out of his sleeve! lol

The rest of the colors are nice...the light is perhaps intentionally so to make it look like some grace has touched them...

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

All of the Hildenbrandt art gives off a sort of cartoonish feeling, I have to say!But this one...I like the way it captures the whole image, it feels so serene, like minas Tirith should be after the War! ;) And i love the bright colours, they look...optimistic!

[Nessa the Dancer]

I have to agree with the feeling of cartoon in the picture the sky doesn't look for real hehe and everyone looks blinded but the sky is dark okay enough of that lol

This picture I think benifits more from the little details, not the main wedding party, but the paving stones which look realistic, the flowers, the vines, the building behind Gandalf, they do make the picutre look more real and less cartoony, that makes the picure look a bit unbalanced in a way, but yea it's art for art's sake and it's good!

[Aletheia]

Ok...now lets dicuss this one!
I picked it cause its of Eowyn and Faramir :love:
hey and today the sky looks like that...all grey and dark and stuff....yup

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/ankekatarinesisman/bluemantle.jpg

k so discuss away!

~Leia:rose:~

[Domlegolas]

:whoohoo: new art!!!
Yeah, I like it... When I see it first, so I noticed Eowyn first of all in the artwork because of bright by Eowyn's hair, also her clothes. It says a lot by windy.. Like clothes' moving. Also the hair.
In addition, Faramir's hair's and clothes' moving by windy.
Nice profile of Faramir to look down at Eowyn, and Eowyn's face is close to his shoulder to hold and close toegther. It feels like Eowyn did find a right man for her and there's peaceful.... :)
Like shadow of Faramir's face.
Background, very good... Very mixed (my opinion) mountains and fog of darkness....

Sorry about Brothers Hildebrandt's 'Wedding' Picture that I didnt write more after some of u shared ur opinions because I tried to see and think but it still brothers me, so forget it... (forgive me ;) )

[Cuiel Rilwen]

What a magnificent capture of the mood...the foul weather, deviced by Sauron, the two people who found eachother in love and comfort...the threat and the hope...the darkness and the light!

Technically it's also very good...like Domlegolas said...I love the way the wind is caught in their clothes and hair...esp Eowyns hair is wonderful!

[Nessa the Dancer]

This picture is very sweet!

As Domlegolas says, Eowyn's hair is the first thing to catch my eye, but then I look away from it to take in the other details. The embroidery on her cloak and dress is beautiful. There is definatly a wind blowing up there as both air and clothing are being tugged. The way Faramir is looking down at Eowyn...it's like they are in their own little world and despite the fact that the sky is dark and stormy, they don't apear to be taking much notice of it, all the forces of Sauron could fall on them, but at this moment they don't care about that.

[Cassandria]

I like how they did the clouds...the texture emits an sensation of fear; that something doesn't seem quite right, there is evil in the air. But then my eye is drawn to the stars and designs on her gown which give me hope of goodness and decency. Finally the way her head leans to him brings an emotion of trust. She seems to be at peace, in comfort like a breath of relief.

I'm not too crazy about the way they drew his face. It is so hard and sharp, no softness to his expression. He looks bitter.

[Domlegolas]

The way Faramir is looking down at Eowyn...it's like they are in their own little world and despite the fact that the sky is dark and stormy, they don't apear to be taking much notice of it, all the forces of Sauron could fall on them, but at this moment they don't care about that.

Exactly!!!

Cass, I understand how u did mean about their faces.. It's the artist's style. Ana I agree with u that Eowyn found peace and trust :)

( I dont know when I will be back online beacuse of computer is very slowing so I have to bring it to computer shop to check it etc... :( But see u around later and I hope there's coming more about opinions, art or other. :rose: , and hugs to everyone)

[Onilalle]

Aw, Domlegolas, :rose: *hugz* please try get beck soon! :(
Yeah Cass, I agree - I do reckon Faramir's expression could be softer - it's a little bit bitter (as you said) for the situation that Nessa and Domlegolas are describing. Nonetheless, it's a well-painted, well-textured piece of art that has a very interesting quality about it. Variety of tone is good; I like the way their clothes are shaded and windswept in just the right way. I like it, but it's not one of my favourites. ;)

[Aletheia]

Ahh! See, Eowyn and Faramir stuff is just so much fun :love: So.....lets compare! This will be exciting :hooray:

Here's another version of the same scene: Thoughts?

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/tednasmith/DBM_The_Sun_Unveiled.jpg

[Elfdaughter]

I lke them both - the first picture though seems a bit.... desperate, though. The second picture, the clouds are breaking slightly, and there's a ray of light shining on Minas Tirith - symbolising that there is hope in the darkness, perhaps?

[Cassandria]

ooohhh I like the thought ED about the sunrays! :cool:

I like this picture too, a little better than the other. Faces are important to me and these are softer showing the goodness in their hearts. :)

Again the posture represents their emotion and love for one another. I like the colors and I especially like how they drew the boat-like image, just like Tolkien described. :thumbs:

The only thing is the wall seems a bit too short. I get the sensation that they could fall. :o lol

[Nessa the Dancer]

Oh yea great idea Leia :grin:

It's still windy lol

You can see a bit of the garden in this picture as well very nice!

I think this one is not just about Eowyn and Faramir the way the other one was, it's hope for everyone.

[Aletheia]

The only thing is the wall seems a bit too short. I get the sensation that they could fall.

lol I thought the same thing..if I was Wyn in that pic, I'ld be like "yeah Fara you better be holding on to me!" roflmao

But yeah, I really love the second piccy...I love the first one too, but as Nessa said..the second conveys the idea of renewed hope so wonderfully. I really like it! :)

~Leia:rose:~

[Elfdaughter]

lol - yeah, the wall is a bit short!!

[Domlegolas]

Oh, wow... Another pix of Faramir and Eowyn... Big different.. Secong pix makes me to feel different about them like more happy, more love, "breath their lifes" than first pix like more sorrow.....but keep toegther stronger than second pix.. What do u think???
First pix looks like they both care of each other so powerful, sorrow, keep together strong!!!! Than second, but the seocnd pix is more positive... but it doesnt give me to feel strong about them both... It is like romantic...
But it's still beautiful artwork...smooth...softly...nice colors... warm colors but yes I agree with u about the wall.... I am trying to look and figure again and again, it isnt work for me...it's too short, yes... hmm..
But second pix is still good and I like it.

[Aletheia]

It's that time again :) This time I have something totally different; a piccy of Bag End done by Mr. John Howe...

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/johnhowe/bagend.jpg

Ok, so let me just say that I am absolutely in awe of this picture. *jaw drops* I just think the lighting, shading, detail, and style are beautiful. It conveys such a warm, enviting, home-like feeling, and it just makes me want to be there. It looks so comfy and peaceful.....Yeah, I like it ;) How 'bout you guys?

~Leia:rose:~

ps-if you want you can suggest paintings for next time too...

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I like this too...John has managed to depict it from Bilbo's view...it doesn't feel small or narrow...makes me wonder how it would look if he tried to make another picture from Gandalfs view! ;) Wouldn't that be interesting! From my point of view...as a cabinetmaker and furniture dealer I mean...I find it quite interestng how he imagines what pieces of furniture a hobbit would have!

[Cassandria]

I love this pic so much it has made it to my desktop at work many times. I love the colors. It is warm and inviting like a new spring day and it is the kind of place I would like to call home. I escpecially like the wood, its detail of the carvings and the wrought iron candelabra. And what a wonderful concept...round windows and doors. :)

[Onilalle]

One of my favourite John Howe paintings. ;) Staggering realism... Cosy - it captures everything about Hobbits and their living environments: Peace, serenity, tidiness, love of home. :blush: It's distinctly accurate from a painting point of view... How John does that, I'll never get round! lol I do love the warmth and the fact it's all round and circular... That's a difficult thing to get right in perspective! I say no depiction of Hobbit-holes can beat this one. Plus this one ended up in the film, so I'm more than happy! (in fact most of Howe's stuff ended up in the film, which is so cool! lol)

[Nessa the Dancer]

This picture is perfect in it's hobbitness!

The scale is great from the hobbit point of view.

The little light thing hanging from the ceiling looks just like the one that was in my grandmothers living room. The floor looks well polished and cared for and it looks like the sun is shining straight in you can even see the reflection of the door.

The way the picture is done with the door looking outwards and all the detail on the inside an the outside done tantalisingly with not much detail it really makes me want to jump into the picture run along the floor and go look outside.

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

I always feel like i'm inside this particular picture. The air it gives off...it feels and seems so realistic that I can look at it for hours, almostimagining myself in there, running to the door and seeing the hobbit children playing down the hill and the Gaffer trimming the hedges... :)

[Onilalle]

...Bliss :) :grin:

[Aletheia]

Okay, since I didnt get any suggestions (hint hint;)) I picked this peice from the 1986 calender just b/c it is done in a style so different than the paintings we have been discussing. Whatcha thinkin?

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/calendars/1986/12.jpg

[Cassandria]

Oooohhhh looks like stained glass! Pretty colors! The detail is interesting and I love the smoke from the torches! The dragon is SCARY tho!!! :o

[Nessa the Dancer]

Can I be really ignorant and ask what this scene is? lol There's a dwarf there it looks like...Thranduil interigating Thorin?

It looks a bit like a comic book or children's book picture. That's noting against the style. It is very striking and I think that where in some pictures detail plays a great role, or creating the right mood. In this I think that colour plays a great role, not the clever use of it but the use of it but the sheer induldgance of it.

Every single Elf is dressed in a different colour, the banners are different colours the swords are different clours the room is a mass of colour.

I think, and this picture is more about colour than anything else, it looks as if they've done it to see just how much colour one can get away with in one picutre lol

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

Wow!!This is really colourful...I think I have to agree with Nessa that it does feel like a comic book page, but the brightness and the overall pic gives off a nice sensation! I think all those colours work to its favour! ;)

And it is Thranduil interrogating Thorin! :p I love the details and the entire image! :grin:

[Domlegolas]

Oh, I missed first pix of Bag End....
It's so beautiful... Feel very soft..smooth.... Feel real woods!!! Nice bright and colors.. The pix makes real home! Very prefect artwork...

Second pix.. different style... I feel like colors.. are so stronger, so I look it too fast.. but when I try to look each part of the pix slowly, so it notices more like..how they looks like at their faces, hairs, hands, clothes, flags, candles.. etc...
Get it? And I like "smoking" from candles..
My opinion, the pix has two choices.. like.. to look so fast and "enough".. or look so slow and get more than "enough"...
When I looked it first time, and it reminds me of Robin Hood in suddently... hmm.. Dont know why.. Curious if u thought of that or not?

[Nessa the Dancer]

That's intresting Domlegolas! it is kind of Robin Hood like I've got an old Robin Hood book with pictures and yea the style and colours are very similar to this picture, the readhead elf in the bright green looks straight out of Robin Hood.

[Domlegolas]

That's intresting Domlegolas! it is kind of Robin Hood like I've got an old Robin Hood book with pictures and yea the style and colours are very similar to this picture, the readhead elf in the bright green looks straight out of Robin Hood.


Wow u have old book of Robin Hood and it's similar... wow...
Just dont know why,... just in the suddently to notice in the first moment..

But THANKS for letting me to know about the old book's pixs..

[Aletheia]

Another painting from a calendar..this time the 1981 one (before I was born! lol) This picture stood out at me because of the use of light and color, and although it isn't really to my taste, it is striking. What do all of you think?

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/calendars/1981/7.jpg

[Domlegolas]

:whoohoo: :whoohoo: :whoohoo: new art!!!!!!

Ohh, in suddently I see it so I like the sculptures in darker...shadow...
Like stones on floor. It's so beautiful both of blue and warm colours..
But... Lighting from outside... hmm.. There's a few different colours... It makes me to think of glass-stairs.. (right spelling, humm, glas kind of church's window).
And positions...brothers me little... Because Gandalf (right?) doesnt look right position at the man.
But in the general, it's a nice artwork.... I wrote recently as I like sculptures and stones on floor... Like it a lot...

But I would like to get know other's view.... :hooray:

[Cuiel Rilwen]

This image isn't to my taste either. But asides from my tastes I wonder what the artist actually intended by using that intense light-shift...Gandalf looks two-dimentional and sculpturelike...like he would never move again...Pippin looks too far away from Denethor....they look kinda detatched from the old man on the throne, as if he was dreaming them up....and the sculptures of the ancient kings looms over them like some kind of menace. If the light is supposed to project some kind of light and hope it doesn't work for me. I kinda find myself thinking that something horrible will happen if Pippin touches that sword! :o

[Cassandria]

I'm not too crazy about this one either. The colors are too loud and unrealistic. I don't like the faces, and Gandalf's beard just does not look right. It looks more like it should be around Zsa Zsa Gabore's shoulders. lol lol

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

It does look a bit unrealistic, but I like the use of colour and the overall feeling of the pic!!:D

[Nessa the Dancer]

Pippin looks like he's barely holding onto his sword!
Denethor looks pretty good, and I like that there are the steps leading up to the throne.

I'm not sure I like the lighing effect it looks false to me too precise and pippin should not be all dressed up with a red cloak hehe, Gandalf looks a bit like a statue himself, I like his beard though! Very impressive.

[Elfdaughter]

Hmm - when I first saw it, I thought 'WOW!', but after looking carfully, I can see that this picture actually leaves a lot to be desired. I can see what the artist is trying to express with the lighting of Gnadalf, but it doesn't work. Pippin is far too far away from the Steward's throne, and Denethor looks...shady, almost. I agree with Nessa about the lighting - it's too sharp and precise - and too yellow. Gandalf's almost spotlighted, when this scene has nothing to do with him, really. If anyone should be spotlighted, it should be Pippin - this is his scene, really, when his bravery comes out, and he starts to come into his own.

[Domlegolas]

I am looking at artwork again :p
It seems like watercolor??..
Yeah, I agree with other about Gandalf that he looks like scultpture....or robot lol ..
Pip and Denethor isnt right position as I see. (my view).. Also Denethor's style isnt right to sit, it isnt fix to stone-chair...

Colours are very strong and bright, it makes our eyes to notice first but when we look at the art more longer, so it makes us to notice as we like or not.
Sometimes colours make us "blind" in first moment...

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Yea I guess you're right...strong or unusual colors can blind the viewer in the beginning!

[Aletheia]

Great thoughts everyone :thumbs:
And, I have another one for you :) Suggested by Nessa :smooch:
Discuss away, art fans!

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/ingeredelfeld/longexpectedpart.jpg

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yay! :grin:
As I told Leia, I could very easily fill this whole thread with Ted Nasmith cause I just :love: his work but it's only fair to give others a sighting hehe.

I really like this picture by Inger Edelfeldt, it's one of those pictures you can look at for ages and keep seeing more and more in the longer you look.

It's got a kind of greeny-brown glow to it especiallly in the background which makes it more hobbit-like. If you look carefully and Bilbo you'll see the back of the chair through him..or is that just me? lol

Everything about this picture is so typically Hobbitish, it's wonderful!

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

Hm...I have to agree with you on Nasmith, Nessa!! :grin: He is my absolute favourite!!:hyper:I :love: all of his work!!

To the pic at hand, though... ;) I have to agree with the entirely hobbit-ish feeling the whole pic gives off!!And yes, you can see the back of Bilbo's chair...and it looks so detailed, too!! :grin: I also got a sense of a Rennaisance painting there...it must be the use of colour and the scene depicted; it is a beautiful pic, one of the best hobbit themes pieces of art I have seen!

[Cassandria]

Yay! :grin:
As I told Leia, I could very easily fill this whole thread with Ted Nasmith cause I just :love: his work but it's only fair to give others a sighting hehe.

I really like this picture by Inger Edelfeldt, it's one of those pictures you can look at for ages and keep seeing more and more in the longer you look.

It's got a kind of greeny-brown glow to it especiallly in the background which makes it more hobbit-like. If you look carefully and Bilbo you'll see the back of the chair through him..or is that just me? lol

Everything about this picture is so typically Hobbitish, it's wonderful!

I agree with everything you said Nessa! Especially about Ted, not only for his talent but he is such a gracious man!

And it does appear to be the back of the chair. I wonder if the artist did this on purpose. I zoomed in real close and the curve of the top of the chair aligns perfectly with the crease in his pants. Then the string from the horn he is holding loops down perfectly in line with the design on the chair making it appear that part of him is invisible! lol

It tickles me in the way the artist captured the little details of Tolkien's words and managed to bring in the mood in such a Tolkienish way...like Proudfoot's feet large and overly hairy...on the table! And the way they all are going about eating as a priority over listening to Bilbo! No wonder he needed that horn! lol

And as you say...the colors are perfect for Hobbetses! This is an excellent choice of a most excellent picture! :thumbs: veryhappy

[Nessa the Dancer]

I didn't notice the horn, oh yea, he grabs a toy off a hobbit child to bring the hobbits to order hehe.

I'm not quite sure what that black and white thing is behind tree to the left of Bilbo...any ideas

[Cassandria]

I zoomed in again and found the black and white thing is the doorway leading out of the tent that was placed over the party tree. The black is because it is night and the white parts are silhouettes of children dancing. lol :cool:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Of course! I can see that now lol
they are in the pavilion *Decides to engage braincells*

[Domlegolas]

Very interesting!!
I like that we all have different opinions, it is very important :)
:grouphug:

Myself, I dont love last art.. I feel like there's too much because of common colours, and similiar style. No different of them to notice or something like that. But another thing, I have to say that he did excellent work with the art as he could do details.... So I can look more longer but there's not analyze (for me-my opinion)....
He did great job with the art but it isnt mt taste..

[Nessa the Dancer]

Different opinions are always important!

I can see what you are saying about the colour, it's all earthy green and brown, if you stared for too long they would all merge together lol

I still like it and think it's a great picture, but I can see where you are comming from, maybe a bigger varity of colour would ease it a bit and making the colour stronger?

[Domlegolas]

Nessa, lol u're making me to think............
For example, http://www.scottzagar.com/arthistory/timelines.php?page=event&e_id=1407 (Theodore Gericault) as I am sooo :hyper: crazy several years of his artwork of The Raft of the Medusa!!
It's an example that he used common and dark colours, so it depends how it impacts me...
But I did think of the last artwork of Hobbitses... So it is impossible that I dont really like it because it looks like... "Cartoon" to me, thats why I easier like realism.. like Gericault's paint with dark and common colours but very realism. Like realism... show emotions.....
:rose:

Ithil, u wrote about Rennaisance painting.... hmmm..... I would like u to explain me how u did think of that?? Because it was like surprised me to read ur message... I was like :o
lol

But it's still good to have various opinions here ;)
Thanks, Leia for all wonderful artworks as u posted and the thread :rose:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thinking is good for you :p

Yes, I understand...I think hehe realistic against picture book style. All of Ingar's work is like that look at this one for example http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/displayimage.php?album=22&pos=6 strangly enough the Bilbo's party is the most realistic of all this work(in the art gallery) and is slightly different, that's probably why it's the only one I really like hehe

[Domlegolas]

Yes, recently I looked at all artwork of Inger, so I got the idea of her style of art. Yes, she is very skill with her style,. Some artwork is very nice and beautiful.
(But just it isnt my taste) :p
Agree with u that Bilbo's party seems more realism than others of her artwork..
Right now I dont have any word... because it is still in my mind :blink: lol


:rose:

[Aletheia]

Its that time again! Yup, we've got us a new painting to talk about!
This time the painting was suggested by Domlegolas :) Thanks hun! :cuddles:

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/johnhowe/ambushinithlien.jpg

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Now this picture I like! The colors are fabulous and the light completely stunning! Look at it filtering through the trees...and how it hits the water and spreads along the surface! It's got such depth it's amazing...the mumakil seems so far away and the men so small...it's like I'm peaking around a bend in the river and seeing this stunning scene unfold far off. Actually the first time I saw it I didn't see the archers in front at once...the focus on the large animal is so powerful! It's so calm and yet so violent!

[Aletheia]

Yeah, I agree, I really like this one too :) I love the use of the color green...there are so many shades used in this painting, and yet it doesnt come off looking momchromatic or dull...the shading and varient tones make it stunning.
The light filtering in and the height of the trees gives it an almost tropical, or ancient feel...it always reminds me of the forests in Jurassic Park, believe it or not lol
The focus is set on the distant animal approacing, but there are so many details woven throughout the picture.
Yup, I like it! :thumbs:

~Leia:rose:~

[Domlegolas]

:whoohoo: :whoohoo:

It is soooo beautiful!!!!
I am sitting here and looking at the artwork longer....and look how work and which colours he used.. Excellent!
Very smooth, I like how he painted trees by the sun with simple colours.. Smooth and softly as I can feel.. Also water is very silence "peaceful" but some "spalsh" water by armies and mumak. Agree with Leia that Mumak is the centre so it makes more focus. "Danger is coming"..
Closeup with trees more darker and grass is more close, it makes me feel like I am in trees too and hide myself to look at them.. "And I can see everything"
And I like Faramir and his group are hiding and using their bows, and it makes to feel like I dont know "no sure, confused" if there's more (left side in trees). There's some arrows around of Mumak...
Love the part is Frodo and Sam are hiding too....
The art has rich of common (and warm) colours..

Ohh, bla bla bla... :shhh: ...... so I am waiting to hear other's opinion veryhappy

[Nessa the Dancer]

Oh, I really do like this. The colours are amazing, the lush green close and the blue distance. For me the action seems further away because the backdrop is blue, and everying closer is green. Where we as the observer are standing it is peaceful but we can see the action as it happens, maybe it represnents the fact that Ithilien was peaceful till the Haradrim came stalking through it.

Domlegolas: I moved your John Howe post to a new thread just to keep it seperate, myself I know nothing about it but someone else might.

[Domlegolas]

Domlegolas: I moved your John Howe post to a new thread just to keep it seperate, myself I know nothing about it but someone else might.
Thanks :rose:

[Aletheia]

Hi art fans! :wave:
I apologize for the delay in putting up a new pic :blush:
This painting comes from a suggestion by Nessa :) and it was painted by Carl Emery Pheonix. I'm sure you can all tell that it's a piccy of 'A Conspiracy Unmasked' ;)So..let's talk!
http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/carolemeryphonix/aconspiracyunmas.jpg

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thankyou Leia dear!

This is a real one from the books, Frodo, Sam. Merry Pippin and Fatty Bolger in Crickhollow after the Conspriacy has been unmasked and they are having a good sing-song about it.

I love the fire in the picture, it creates a lovely warm glow in the room and is a haven of light in the dark room. I just looks so warm and cosy and blots out all the terrors of the road, it's a nice feel good picture.

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

I like it!!:thumbs: It has such a hobbit-y feeling to it, you can feel their merriment and the use of colours-the warm red glimmer of the fire pouring all through the picture- evokes hospitality!! :grin:

[Cassandria]

This painting just makes me happy! I love the laughter of the one...(is that Pippin or Merry?). And the look on Frodo's face is priceless. Also I agree, the colors are perfectly cozy.*imagines snuggling in a pile of pillows before that fire* I love the decor above the mantle too. Very nice :)

[Domlegolas]

Nice choose, Nessa :)

Cass, I agree with u about Frodo. It is so beautiful expression.
There's so warm and nice colours. Like how artist used shadows from the fire to people and the room. It makes more warm during night time, and all are sitting too close the fire and enjoy together. Really friendship :thumbs:
I like stones around of the fire. It is so beautiful stones and things above the fire.. Very nice!!!
I dont have any words about the artwork because it is like prefect, but mostly is heart, warm and nice!! When I see it, so it makes me already warm inside..
:rose:

[Aletheia]

Hey guys! I thought I'd pull up a new pic since convo seems to stalled...though if you still want to talk on that one by all means let me know :blush:
Anyways...this one is by Anke Katerine Eismen, and it's obviously the Flight to the Ford :)
Thoughts?

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/ankekatarinesisman/chasedriders.jpg

[Domlegolas]

Yeah... but I am like :whistle: and looking at artwork.... try to think... analyze..... :thumbs: !!!

Very simple colours, and a few "common" colours like brown, black, green and blue/grey...
But the forest is black, so it "steals" all of the artwork in the same time white (horse) is very contrast. So there's prefect balance but.....
I am thinking...and looking at it.....
My eyes feel like white and black is making me to look at common places... and miss other in the artwork like details....
(White) horse and the forest are taking my eyes.... When I look at the forest, so horse bothers me, then I look at the horse so it is the same thing that the forest bothers me......
Someone disagree???? Or???
But another thing, I like it because it is very simple and strong contrast and balance while it bothers me lol

[Nessa the Dancer]

There is one thing that I can find in nearly all of Anke Katerine's work and that is that the faces are hard. we already saw that with Eowyn and Faramir and it seems to be a trend. In this picture Frodo's face is hard, sort of chissled, though the horse's face is fine hehe.

That is just an observation on Anke's work in general, for this picture I can't say that I like or dislike it.

There is definatly a feeling of haste and fast movement, that is shown well by Frodo's billowing cloak and the horse's main and tail. I personly would have prefered a more detailed background as oposed to colours and shapes, but the focus of the picture is on Frodo and the Riders and having a plainer background does emphasise the chase more.

[Cassandria]

Eismen's depiction of the flight doesn't scare me as much as it should. Asfaloth's eyes look too pleasant as though he is only out for a mild gallop as are the wraith's horses...it needs to look more frantic imo. I do like the detail of Frodo's body and clothes, but am not too crazy about the way she draws faces either.

[Domlegolas]

There is one thing that I can find in nearly all of Anke Katerine's work and that is that the faces are hard. we already saw that with Eowyn and Faramir and it seems to be a trend. In this picture Frodo's face is hard, sort of chissled, though the horse's face is fine hehe.

Excatly.... It is Anke's style of art.... Hmmm.... Not my taste of artwork.. But depend on "situation" of artwork..
But in general Anke is very skill with her art :)

[Aletheia]

This next painting is form Inger Eldelfeld, and it is of (obviously) an oliphant :)
Thought/Likes/Dislikes?

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/ingeredelfeld/oliphaunt.jpg

For me, while I do like this painting, it seems a bit disporportionate. The size of the oliphant comparitively to the men seems rather off to me. However, I like the colors and the feeling of panic-frenzy that the artists conveys. Then again, on the other hand, the bright colors almost make me think the oliphant is dancing. It seems very much like an illustration from a children's book to me.

[Nessa the Dancer]

One of the things I really like about this picture is the dust-cloud being created by the Oliphant and the relation of them to the people I think the scaling in the picture is realistic and also the feeling of panic or chaos.
I aslo like the detail of the Oliphant and his trimmings.

The picture style may not be exactly to my taste but it is very well done with scale and the mood.

[Aletheia]

New pic to dicuss! :hooray: Okay, this one is John Howe's 'Flight to the Ford'
Thoughts??

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/johnhowe/theford.jpg

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thank you Leia :smooch:

This picutre I like particulaly for the water. It look so real, in fact it makes me feel as if I could reach out and feel the spray falling on my hands. The foam horses apart from the big one are quite subtly done, but the foam and spray are really impresive and it adds to the feeling of panic for the Black Riders. Glofindel's horse looks quite feirce as well hehe

[Cuiel Rilwen]

oooooh I love this image!!! It was in fact the first image I ever used for a screen saver! :) I too like the frothing water a lot, it's kinda flushing down and you can see Asfaloth trying hard not to get caught in it...flooding down over the ringwraits. It's an image that brings both horror and relief to mind, as ofcourse I know what happened forehand...I can hear the ringwraits shreaking in my ear!

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes, I seem to remember something Gandalf said to Frodo in Rivendell that the ploy nearly worked a little too well and that he (Frodo) nearly got washed away as well. This image shows that at it's best with Asfaloth trying to keep out of the way . It shows the danger in the rescue.

[Gwaihir]

Ah this is one of my favourite LotR paintings!! :) The water splashing and breaking over the rocks.. the wind in the horse's mane and tail.. Frodo looking very fierce and Asfaloth clinging desperately on dry land! I can almost feel the spray of water!

[Sirion]

It's a nice picture, very dynamic. I admire the way the water and the surroundings are painted. However, I don't like the white horse. It appears to be too small when compared to Frodo. In my humble, lay opinion, the horse should be a little bigger when we consider the fact that it belongs to an Elf.

[Nessa the Dancer]

Hmmmmm bear in mind that the horse is practically crouching on the rock, but still I see what you mean Frodo does outsize it. It's sort of the same ratio as if he was riding Bill the Pony not an Elven horse.

[Aletheia]

That was my thought too actually...the size of the horse needs to be scaled up a bit, and the legs lengthed. He seems to stocky to be a elven-horse (at least in my mind, I always pictured them being more proportional to say, and Adulusian or Arabian) But otherwise I like this pic alot. The water is fantastic, and the contrasts between light/dark are well done and dramatic.

[IronHills Dwarf]

I also really like this image. Well except for that horse (I concure, much to small) and Frodo (his feet look funny). My only problem with the picture in terms of correlation with text is that Frodo appears to be actively threatening the lead black rider. I had always imagined him as raising the sword (instead of thrusting with it) as an act of defiance. I really enjoy the little features, like the tips on the hoods of the black riders. It gives (to my eye) a sort of perfect blend between folklore and epic. Oh and I like the black rider's sword of course. ;) lol

[Cassandria]

Oh you picked one of my favorites too...which also spent a long time on my desktop at work. I agree with the size of the horse, but I don't care because the detail of the water, the spray, the rocks, the frightful look of the wraiths. It all brings to me the urgency of the scene as Tolkien wrote it. I love the way he drew the horse faces in the water, so fierce and menacing. Its one of those pics that I could stare at for weeks and never get tired of it.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I never thought of it but ofcourse you're right...the horse looks hobbit-sized pony-like and I'm sitting here giggling when I think about how Glorfinindel would have looked on it....feet dangling almost to the ground! lol

[Domlegolas]

Ohh, so beautiful!!!! I love it!!!
Also there's powerful visual.
Yeah, I agree about white horses' size, humm.... Or John Howe wants us to notice it because white horses can be "missed" from the art when we look at it quickly.... So it has to look more longer than just quickly :thumbs: !!
But in the same time it is so thrilling to look at it for a while!
Just "WOW"!!! I dont have any words about the artwork :p


:rose:

[Nessa the Dancer]

I think it might be interesting as this picture is generating a lot of comments both for and against to do some comparisons, I have found a couple of pictures of the same scene but drawn and portrayed in different ways.

This one is by Anke Katrin Eissmann
http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/ankekatarinesisman/fordbruinen.jpg

In this one you see the horse and Frodo are properly proportioned, but this is a more wide shot of the whole scene, you can see Glofindel, Aragorn and co driving the Riders into the Ford.

To me, with the focus shifted to the scene as a whole there is somehow less tension where Frodo is concerned.

The river I still think is magnificent, the colours are amazing and the is that sense of panic and confusion of the Riders. But there is more a sense that you are watching from a distance rather than being right there in the midst of the action.

[Domlegolas]

Oh yes!!!!!
Very good to compare two different art. Second artwork, I like it too.
There's more clear message, so I feel like I just look once and get all of information at the artwork than first art of John Howe.
But second art with white horses is making more powerful.. Also notice quickly to feel power than Nazuls... Like how Anke Karin Eissmann worked with enivornment, it is so beautiful with water... So I can feel that sun is there "above canvas"... Very nice moving of nazuls with horses...
Frodo and horse too, it makes realism!!!! Wow... It is centre of artwork, also second of white horses.....
Love it how she worked with colours, moving, enivornment and realsim!!!!!
:thumbs:
But it is too much with "information" message than John Howe's who has to analyize.....
Hmmm..... I am still looking at both artworks....
:rose:

[Domlegolas]

Leia and Nessa, perhaps u can add http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/displayimage.php?album=54&pos=4 to see different three artwork...
Just suggest :p

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes, I was planning to do that hehe
Here is the same scene, but again done in a different way by Ted Nasmith

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/tednasmith/attheford.jpg

This one again the horse is more properly proportioned. This picture is again closer to the action but again I don't feel the same intensity as with the first picture. One detail that is interesting here is that we see Frodo's sword splitering and falling from his hand. This picture like the first is more centered on Frodo and the Riders so we do not see the wider view of the whole action.

I like the colours of the water again here and the sky as well.

What are your thoughts on this picture and comparing all three, which works best at portraying the scene or are they all equal.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

It's a nice image but I don't like that type of sky, it's too "perfect". The rest of it is good tho...remind me again who's riding the water-horse? Is it Gandalf? I think John Howe's is better still...he managed to blend the horses with the water in a better way.

[Nessa the Dancer]

Hmmmm I think (though I can't find it in the book atm) that Elrond created the waves and Gandalf did the fancy bits, he was not actually riding he just created the horses an riders. Yes, perhaps the sky is a bit perfect

[Domlegolas]

Yeah, I like nazuls and white horses,it is so powerful!!!!
But Frodo,humm.... Also his horse... There's something as I dont like... I prefer John Howe's and Anke's with Frodo and his horse.
Crueil, u gave me to think about the sky.... Yes,it is soo prefect but in general I like it. So smooth and beautiful but it is possible not "agree" with the situation of Frodo.... Humm.....
But it is so nice colours of the sky.... It is always interesting tolisten other's opinions :thumbs:
A man on the white horse brothers me...Humm...
But I still prefer John Howe's, second Anke...
Both of them have different ways of artwork and style but in the same time they did so great!!!!!! So beautiful!!! John's is so smooth and softly... It makes me to feel like I am there withouth they know.....
Anke's too but it feels like too fast with the happening...like shocked to see it...

:rose:

[Sirion]

The horse has good size this time :) , but to be honest, I don't like the picture. I think it looks kitschy.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Yeah...that's the word I was searching for with the sky. ;)

[Aletheia]

It's time for a new painting everyone! This time it is from Alan Lee, suggested by Nessa! :)
Thoughts/Likes/Dislikes/Adorations/Etc...???

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/alanlee/rivendell.jpg

[Cassandria]

Ooooohhhh the mountains, the water, the rocks are wonderful! :grin: They have so much detail and are very realistic! The house is warm and cozy and I like how he drew the smoke. :)

I'm not too crazy about the color of the trees...he could have used a little bit of orange and red. I think that would have made the picture more beautiful. :-/ However, they do have nice detail. ;)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thanks Leia!

Yes, I agree Cassie, the trees could do with being a bit less yellow/gold but as a whole I really like this picture! especially the water (I've a thing about water lol)

I like the way the mountains are drawn, all sorta craggy and the hous nestling between the trees looks so peaceful. I want to be in that painting and go exploring in the valley.

[Domlegolas]

I like it but not like "wow" or "great"....hmm...
But I like the apinting is too far..like house, mountain, water falls, river and trees... But close-up like trees and rocks, hmm...It makes like borning.....
I like how he did with too far and it is so smooth but not close-up...
Hmm.... Feel like borning....hmmm.....

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I like the rocks/ mountains and the water too! Esp. the way he made that far away mountain at the top! It's a bit bleak colorwise but I suppose that's how it's intended...my home even looks a bit like this in autumn if we don't get the frost-kiss that makes the leaves go red!

[Aletheia]

I really love this pic, but I agree that the trees are overall too monochromatic. The water and detail behind the pic is amazing though, so that sort of makes uo for it for me. However I would have liked to see him use more colors...

[Nessa the Dancer]

Here is another Rivendell this time by Ted Nasmith

http://www.warofthering.net/photoforum/data/509/medium/rivendell.jpg

This is a much greener Rivendell you still have the craggy mountains and feels like the veiewer is on top of one of them and looking down into the valley and the river looks playfull.

This Rivendell somehow looks more real than the Alan Lee one, it may be a combination of the angle, the deeper colour and the way the cliffs are drawn.

[Sirion]

I know this one. It must have taken a long time to paint it. I am not sure I like it, though. For me, it's too sunny and cheerful. I prefer more darker paintings, but that's just my weired taste... :)

[Domlegolas]

Sirion, lol it is very good to have different taste than common lol
Keep it with ur style of art as u like.

Oh yes, the painting of Rivendell, I love it!!! More colours.... Nice mountains... Also too far with "white" mountains with clouds, ohh!! I love it. So it influnces all of the canvas..
I like how the river goes......
So beautiful!
But it isnt my favor anyway. Just so beautiful and it feels like to be at home and relax with soul... Peaceful....
:thumbs:

[Aletheia]

gosh thats beautiful!!!!! *jaw drops* I really like that one, the colors and viewpoint are lovely! Its very inviting, I really find myself wanting to crawl into the picture for a vacation! lol

[Cuiel Rilwen]

It is kinda...postcard-like...almost too nice...but I recognize the work done and it's a nice picture. I like the cleft that opens backwards and the sky is nice with the thin veil of clouds...and also the path on the front left that winds downwards...makes me wanna go down it! :)

[JemFinch]

Have never been in an art thread before. lol
It's very beautiful, and seems like it belongs somewhere in Middle-Earth, but I wouldn't say it is my favorite depiction of Rivendell...the hills look very shire-like, and it feels like the mountains belong somewhere else... I always pictured Rivendell's mountains more tall, not so cliff-like.
:grin:

[Cassandria]

Ahhh this is one of my favorite of Ted Nasmith's collection. And you know, it kind of looks like the mountains I drove through yesterday on my way back from Phoenix, AZ. :cool: I love the enormity of the mountains, and the power of the water. Yet it leaves me with a feeling of safe serenity, peaceful and quiet. I wonder if Ted ever drove through those mountains. :mmmm: He lives only one state away from them in CA!

[JemFinch]

I really like both of the Rivendell paintings. (Only just looked at the previous one. :blush: ) It's funny...the first seems smaller and more intimate than the second....the Nasmith version seems larger, more vast. I actually like the first one better, although I love the vastness of the second...or maybe that's because the vastness seems to remind me of another part of ME...Rohan or Gondor maybe. :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes...the mountains are a bit Gondorish

For myself personally I love mountains and cliffs and I also like looking down from a great height the edge of a cliff or a quarry or something so this picture apeals to me in that way as well as the lush green colours.

[Nessa the Dancer]

In the absance of Leia I'm posting the next picture to discuss.

The outskirts of Mirkwood from The Hobbit by Alan Lee

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/alanlee/gandalfdepartmirkwwod.jpg

My first reaction to this picture is that it is on the sinsister side from the viewers point we are in Mirkwook looking out at the dwarves standing at the entrance on the edge of Mirkwood. All the tree branches are twisted together and covered with moss it actually looks quite real - makes you want to glance behind just to make sure you are not in the forest.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

True...and this is one of John's qualities...he often makes me feel like I'm actually in the picture somehow! lol In this particualr one I'm almost afraid that one of the dry brittle old braches will snap and give me away!

It's very good...the light that hits the dwarves is a bit sickly in color...kinda traiterous if you know what I mean!

[JemFinch]

I've always loved Alan's trees. :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

I agree with you Cuiel about the light it does have that feel about it and about the feeling that a brittle branch may break under your foot. The air of secrecy and slightly watchful menace. It's almost as it you are waiting for Gandalf to leave so the dwarves will enter the forest.

[Periantari Andruil]

*SUch* a wonderful thread, i'm so sorry i havne't been in here earlier! lol It's so cool in here~
:thumbs: Good job for everyone who keeps it going with pics and insight. :thumbs:

THe Alan Lee pic is gorgeous..i agree with a sinister feeling that it has and i just like how we see a glimpse to how Mirkwood was perceived~
The trees look a bit like ones at Fangorn though... (in the painting by Lee where Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli enter Fangorn...)

:aragorn: :legolas: :gimli:

[Nessa the Dancer]

And here is said picture to compare

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/alanlee/fangornthreehunt.jpg

Yes it's the same kind of thing, but if anything the branches in the Fangorn picture look more brittle than the Mirkwood ones imo

There are more greys being used rather than greens. I'm not sure but I would think that Fangorn is older than Mirkwood anybody know for sure?

[Aletheia]

Okay guys, Im back from vaca so let me know if I need to change the pics or what...it seems as if there hasnt been much discusssion, so I am hesitant to change it yet, but if you want me to just let me know, ok?

As for me, Im not so sure either but I was also under the impression that Fangorn was older...perhaps thats the reason, as Nessa said, I think, for the use of greys and such vs. the greenish-tans we see in the Mirkwood one. It also serves to make Fangorn seem a little less alive....sleepy maybe....and def. forboding. Didnt even the elves caution against it? Hmmm...

[Aletheia]

In an attempt to resurect this thread, and the art forum as a whole....here's a new picture. I hope this re-sparks intrest or I may have to go to more drastic measures, like giving the thread CPR or something, lol.
The picture was from the 1988 callendar, and is a drawing by Tolkien himself. This callendar was actually re-released this last January, and I have it hanging in my room *grins*

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/calendars/1988/6.jpg

questions/comments/observations???

[Elfdaughter]

I love the colours - very happy and hobbit-esque! I really like this picture - I think Tolkien was a very good artist, as well as an outstanding author! Thanks for putting this up, Alethia! ;)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Oh yea! There's nothing like seeing how the Tolkien himself saw his Middle Earth!

This picture is very peaceful and shows Hobbiton for what it is a farming and growing commnity. I like the little signpost it's cute hehe

[Domlegolas]

Very simple...
Movie of LOTR made the Shire sooooo beautiful!!!!! And the artwork of Tolkien is simple and very similar to West Europe like UK, France, Germany etc..
Some way I feel like home :thumbs:

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

I have to agree with Domlegolas here!It does feel a little bit like home, reminds me a lot of a few farming areas in Greece and has a sense of familiarity I like!:)

I have to say I also like the colours!They're so bright and lively and...hobbity!:p

[Sirion]

I'd say that Tolkien was far more better writer than painter... It's not bad, but I don't think he could picture his fantasy with paint brush as brilliantly as with words. Except the Hobbit holes in the background, it looks like an ordinary vilage in Europe. It works as something to start your own imagination, but compared to other pictures of ME, it's not satisfying.

[Domlegolas]

Sirion lol excatly that he was better writer a lot!!!! :thumbs:
His paint was just simple.

[Aletheia]

I love his paintings....they may not be Michaelangelo or anything (Tolkien himself was frustrated with his work, and wasnt satisfied with it) but it conveys a serene, peaceful quality that I dont think is often present in the works of more 'acomplished' artists. To put it simply, the painting 'feels like home'. I never tire of seeing Tolkien's art work :)

[Elfdaughter]

Neither do I - it feels like (in this one in particular,) a hobbit has just taken paper, brush and paint up one of the hills in the Shire, sat down, and painted what he saw!

[Cassandria]

This painting just makes me happy. veryhappy Its simplicity is what is so appealing! ;)

I do agree though after reading Tolkien's very own words in his letters, that he was never satisfied with his art of drawing. It really is not exactly what he had in mind, because he was not capable of drawing it any more than most of us can draw the beauty we see in our own minds. :-/

Still, I love it for the colors, the innocence and how it does convey a "simple life". :thumbs:

[JemFinch]

I love the colors, I'd love to own this, frame it nice, and hang it up. :p It looks so fairy-tale like, it's wonderful. Not quite how I pictured the Shire, but then I'd never be able to put onto paper how I pictured the Shire, because it's all in the words he used. But still, so great! :thumbs:

[Peppyy]

I found some interesting tolkien-related art..... can i suggest some pictures?

[Elfdaughter]

Sure, post one up!

[Nessa the Dancer]

Or PM me the link

[Nessa the Dancer]

Time for another picture this is one of the ones suggesed by Peppyy and it is Gandalf Facing the Witch-King at the doors of Minas Tirith.


http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/peppyy/the_doors_of_minas_tirith.gif

I like this picutre it is much like the book description the flames beyond the Witch-king and the shapes behind in the flames, and Shadowfax standing in the wreckage of the door is very effective.

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

This is so powerful!!!!It does remind me of the description in the book...Shadowfax standing still before the Witch King "like a statue in Rath Dinen", not fleeing the much feared foe;the flames behind the Witch King and the overall colour is very evocative...and dark, as well, like I always imagined this scene!!

[Peppyy]

Sorry for my simple-wording.......
I like that picture very much.... It is just like i imagened to be.... It radiates with strenghth. And the most powerful thing is the difference between the witch-king and Gandalf. Good and the bad. Light and the dark...
Oh, I wish i could say it all much, much better.... Need to repair my dictionary ;)

[Sirion]

I think it looks strange. Shadowfax is too big for Gandalf, and the Witchking's horse is rather small. Also, I imagined a bigger and more evil-looking Grond than the one pictured here. The colors are good, though; and I like the way the black horse is painted.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

It's a very powerful image indeed! Shadowfax is a lot larger than a normal horse but then again he's not...normal I mean! I like the way the doorway is made so high...the wreckage...the flaming sky behind the whitch-king. Grond does look MUCH better in PJ's imagery tho I must agree!

[Elfdaughter]

Yeah, in my mind, Grond was always bigger - but I love this painting! The contrasts between Gandalf and the Witch-King are fantastic, and the composition is spot on.

I agree with Cuiel - Shadowfax isn't a normal horse, and with him looking too big for Gandalf, for me, emphasies his power.

[Aletheia]

I like the symbollism behind the painting- the contrast of the white and red/black, and the imagery. Fantastic...it does seem very powerful, very apocolyptic even. I like it...yet the overall style it is done in is almost too cartoon-y for my taste. I would have liked their to be more detail and depth to the artwork itself. Overall, though, its really a fantastic peice, and very much in keeping with the cannon, I would say!

[Periantari Andruil]

I love it. It's wonderfully detailed and i love the red in teh background and it's just so powerful and vivid... I can see it very different from PJ's version though. lol
I agree with Leia's statement: Fantastic...it does seem very powerful, very apocolyptic even.
Apocolyptic good word.. to describe it.

I also really like Gandalf putting up his hand in defiance. Go Gandalf!!!! :gandalf: :thumbs:

Also--who painted this? John Howe?

[Cassandria]

Oh! A new one...for me at least! :blush: Who drew this? :huh:

I love it too! :thumbs: Especially the horses, the muscles on them, their posture and the way they are facing each other down. They tell a story all on their own; the way the black horse is menacing while the other is bold and steadfast. It seems the black one is on the verge of submission, intimidated yet evil to the core. I really like the colors too, they seem to portray the feel of the moment in an almost physical way. :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Angus McBride did this one...sorry I usually put the artist when I post the picture.

Yes I agree with Grond, from the description in the book I image Grond more like the one in the films

[Nessa the Dancer]

Another picture suggested by Peppyy!

http://www.warofthering.net/photoforum/data/509/5e3cd23f.jpg

This is not of a specific scene exactly but it is an interesting depiction of the Fell Beasts and I also love the sky in the picture as well the clouds look like tey are bubbling and boiling over with the wrath and anger of Sauron. The light that is comming through the clouds is very cold and harsh, and you really get the feeling that this not a good place to be.

To me though the Eye of Sauron looks a bit small and insignificant the sky speaks more than the Eye itself.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Bubbling yea I guess...but I think he/she? overdid the clouds...they look like a poodle...sorry! lol The overall feel is menacing tho, and I like the scene. The fell beasts are fab! But I agree that the eye is too small.

[Elfdaughter]

Hmm, I agree with that - in fact, I barely noticed the Eye at all. I DO like the perspective though, and the colours are briliant! I like the way the Fell Beasts seem to be...Pteradactyl-like, though I think I prefer the film versions of them.

I like the way the moon, and the cloud shape around the moon seems to be echoing the Eye...

[Nessa the Dancer]

This is a Ted Nasmith painting!

Yea perhaps it overdone a bit but still effective I think and I like the black tower growing out of the clouds the eye is just wrong though I think

[Elfdaughter]

I wouldn't say the clouds were overdone, I think that lends to the atmosphere of the painting as a whole.

[Cuiel Rilwen]

The moon does echo the eye! I didn't notice...that is very symbolic!

[Domlegolas]

Oh, I wasnt here over a month....So I would like to say some about first artwork of Minas Tirith.
It wa so nice but I agree with both (Sirion and Cuiel) about Shadowfax.
If some dont know the story about Shadowfax, so it will look little funny that the horse is bigger than Gandalf. But if we know the story, so it looks fine.
But I love the colour of red, it is so powerful but I would like to add more fire to notice... It is just my opinion :p

Second artwork of The Fell Beasts. First of all, I love the clouds. It makes double powerful. Also it makes me to forget other things in artwork. The cloud gives me to see it first. But.....The eye is very weak.... Hmmm....And easy to ingore it... So it isnt excatly wonderful but the background of clouds is so powerful...
:p

[Peppyy]

I have two versions of this art, one is too bright and this one is a bit too dark... But I think you'll succeed iin seeng what's on it:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/peppyy/tfotrq.jpg

That is from the Croatian FOTR hardcover.... My parents say that i have to log off, so I don't have time to post my opinion about it... but I will!

Artist is Igor Kordej

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thank you Peppyy :grin:

This picture is a bit to cartoony for my taste but I do like the contrast of the light and shadows especially in the tree - it gives a sinsister look especially with the mountain looming up behind as well

[Stormcrow]

Yeah, it is a tad cartoony, but I like it! :)

[Periantari Andruil]

There are not many pics of the Fellowship being attacked by wargs and i'm glad for this illustration. The coloring is not my favorite, for the colors seem a bit too striking and harsh. I like the light background though... quite a contrast from the action where the Fellowship is.
Thanks for sharing, Pepppyy! =) :thumbs:

And i love the previous one though... Very dreary colors, very creepy... and nice blends of colors too. :thumbs:

2300th post!!!! :) =) :runs to get new Avatar:: =)

[Cassandria]

Eeeek this one certainly brings out the terror of the moment! :o :o I'm not fond of the faces, but the color is very interesting and I love the way the artist did the torch. The land and the tree are almost as menacing as the wargs! :o It is a good illustration for a book, imo. :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes the torch is very well done and th light and shadows cast by it too are great I like the way the light falls on the tip of Aragorn's sword, looks like a sword of fire.

[Nessa the Dancer]

We will start the New Year with a new paining and revive this thread again :grin:
Not the most cheerful of subjects but interesting.
A Ted Nasmith paining of Aragorn and the Hobbits on their way to Rivendell its labled 5th day from Weathertop, so it is after Frodo has been stabbed.

http://www.warofthering.net/photoforum/data/509/cheerless.jpg

I like the scenery very much in this picutre, the moss growing on the trees is very realistic, my only fault with it might be that its a bit too much the scenery is a bit overdone, there is no breathing space with everything packed tightly together.

One aspect of the picture that I particually like is the way Frodo is portrayed, now, it might be a bit much for some but I like that Frodo is one almost like a Ringwraith - which is what the Witch-king's intention was.

The others are all in the light whereas Frodo is back in the dark and there is a kind of mystiness about him, and it is like the darkness is around him alone.

[Cassandria]

Oh! You are right Nessa! That thought about Frodo has never occured to me with this picture. Ooooh it is spokey and sad! :o :(

I love the colors in this pic. :thumbs: Ted has a way with natural colors, they are so brilliant without taking away the gloominess of the forest and looking unnatural. And I like the fine detail...it reminds me of the forests of New Jersey where it is thick and there is no 'breathing space'. So to me that part shows the wildness of the lands they traversed.

[Aletheia]

I like this picture a lot...just the use of color and light alone is fantastic, but its the attention to detail in the plant life and roots and such that really stand out to me. There's a darkness hanging over Frodo that is forboding and hints at the burden he's dealing with. The forest is heavy and I can just imagine the air being think and heavy.

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes, I think this picture captures the worry and anxiety that the group are feeling, and the heavyness of the forest mirrors the heavyness in the hearts of the hobbits and Aragorn - Frodo seems detached and distant.

[Ponette]

My first post here, but let me compliment on the lovely, original idea for a thread.
I can't comment on Igor Kordej's painting impartially, since he's my countryman, so let me just say that his illustration looks killer on the book, very effective, and not nearly as "cartoony". :)
As far as the other painting is concerned, it's typical Ted Nasmith. The nature is painted with painstaking detail, and I especially love the moss on the tree in the foreground and the contrast between the greens and the reds. The white glow of Frodo's face under the black hood is a particularly great touch. Giving him a resemblance to Nazgul and placing him last in the line makes him look threatening, like his coming after the other 4. What I dislike is Aragorn's "Robin Hood" style of clothing and a rather modern look of hobbit's clothes and their backpacks. But that's all. :)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Welcome to the thread Ponette.

I must agree with you Nasmiths real strengths when drawing are in the backgrounds and nature.

[Periantari Andruil]

There's a darkness hanging over Frodo that is forboding and hints at the burden he's dealing with. The forest is heavy and I can just imagine the air being think and heavy.
I agree with that and i think i like that part best about the painting~ =) ;)
I also agree with what Nessa had said about landscapes and nature being Nasmith's strength.

Also the appearance of Aragorn doesnt' fit how i imagine him to be though--i do not think that ARagorn had short hair but that's just a minor thing...

my favorite thing about the painting is the appearance of how Frodo looks and how its' so misty and dark in the background leading back into the forest. =)

:frodo: :rose:
:frodo: =)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Yes Aragorn doesn't really look Rangery enough, he looks a bit too clean as well, especially his boots.

[Nessa the Dancer]

Time for a new picture, this one is by John Howe.

http://www.warofthering.net/gallery/galleries/albums/johnhowe/gandalfbagend.jpg

Another hobbity Shirey one :grin:

I think this picture is just so beautiful!
The colours are fresh and bright and the picture is so realistic that you almost feel you could go for a walk over the hill and the path gets lost in the mists of fine rain.
I like how the Bilbo's fence is done as well.

The one issue I would bring to the picture though is that gate is a bit too tall for a hobbit gate, I think it should be smaller in proportion to Gandalf.

[Cassandria]

Don't you just want to live there!!! I love the colors too, they remind me of the greeness of my old homes back east, or over the sea. And I love the little blue hobbit hole with the round window and doors...it is so cozy. :)

[Periantari Andruil]

Gandalf and the Shire! Preciousssssssssss one by John Howe!
He used the same colors for his "Grey Pilgrim" one i believe.
I think PJ definitely got much inspiration from this painting actually...Howe was one of the conceptual artists as well and you can really see some of this in the movies... =) :thumbs:

The colors is awesome--i always love light colors in paintings. Really contrasts to what Anke Eissman does---(though i love her too) Also big contrast to the darker paintings that Howe does.

After all, who is NOT innocent in the beginning of Fellowship? The colors really reflect light and innocence as well....

[Nessa the Dancer]

Definatly! This is the Shire as it was before the trouble of the Ring became known. Ooooo I've just noticed the little lantern hanging on the porch, I didn't see that before hehe

[Periantari Andruil]

http://www.sandelwood.net/artfortheshire.html

According to the artist, she does not want hotlinking so i STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you ALL to roam this site. She's amazing. And this picture...

I'll just write the caption text for it's just so beautiful... and so true and ...makes me love hobbits all the more. :loveyou: :loveyou: :frodo: :sam: :Pippin: :merry:


"This is a symbolic little piece, post-Return of the King. Each of the hobbits leave something as a memorial of their place on the journey. Pippin's sword and scarf: He became a warrior for Gondor, but sacrificed his innocence along the way. Merry's Shield: His place in the quest was, above all else, to stand by and protect his friends and his home. Sam's Rope: The lifeline of the journey, holding fast to the path and never letting go. And finally, Frodo's Chain: Binding him to his task and holding him prisoner to the power of the Ring."


Omg, fellow hobbit lover, i so feel your love. No, but the artwork is REALLY beautifuly drawn......all must look! ! !

:grin: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Thank you for sharing Peri An!

Oh wow that picture is really beautiful, and also sad as well. The colours are gorgeous, and I love the feel of the wind blowing through the long grasses it makes you want to remember.

[Periantari Andruil]

It's very melancholy and that's the best part of it... and to have the artist be creative in drawing that and have each of the hobbits' items symbolize something is quite.... mecry touching and poignant.

[Nessa the Dancer]

Time for another picture and this one I post mainly for the way it looks back a bit in history.

http://www.warofthering.net/photoforum/data/509/Boromir_Faramir_and_Finduilas_study.jpg

It's by an artist called Alexandra Kitlickova and it is of Boromir and Faramir as young children with their mother. I think this picture shows the closeness of Faramir to his mother as Boromir was to his father

[Cuiel Rilwen]

It's beautiful...I've never seen it before! Sure shows a more happy time for the brothers...esp Faramir!

[Ponette]

Hooray, they all have black hair! That makes me so happy. :) I've seen other paintings and drawings by the same artist and they're all wondeful, and each one possesses the same, warm, homely feeling. I really admire the way she creates completely original moments, but remains very faithful to the actual story and the depiction of characters. One can truly believe that this was an actual scene from "Boromir and Faramir - the early years". ;)

[Cassandria]

I love it! Faramir looks so cuddly...sweet Faron! ;)

[Periantari Andruil]

I've actually imagined Finduilas with yellow hair... :shrugs: Don't know why i imagined that... I imagined Denethor with black hair like his sons but Finduilas kind of like Eowyn in her loveliness...and thus when Faramir placed the blue mantle cloak upon Eowyn, she looked like her mother... while having that on.
Does it say anywhere what color hair Finduilas had?

And..i also imagined everyoen to have lighter skin here. ... (hehe sorry i'm so critical) :blush:

It's a nice drawing though. :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Hmmm I can't find a reference anywhere to the colour of Findulas's hair I agree though that their skin a little too dark even for Gondorians - she was Prince Imrahil's sister though and he had dark hair so maybe the hair colour is acurate, the Rohrrim were more for the light colour hair and the Gondorians darker.

[Domlegolas]

I agree with Nessa about Faramir and Boromir, and it shows that Boromir prefers to be army like his father, it looks like the goal too earlier.....
And I like mother's face how she looks like..... also shadow at her face...
Very nice artwork...

[Aletheia]

Hey ya'll- here's a new painting for everyone to discuss:
http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/g...p?image_id=313
(sorry I cannot post the image itself seeing as I don't want to hotlink it, and it wouldn't let me save the image).

Whatcha think? :)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Leia, I'm afraid that the pic has now gone from the link :( could you try to find it again?

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I tried searching for the image id=313 but no show. I'm sure Leia will retrace it. :)

[Domlegolas]

Ops... That was me who send to Leia, let me look for the painting..Hold a moment, then I will send to Leia again, thanks for patience :rose:

[Aletheia]

Okay let's try this again....
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1968/entsisengard3um.jpg
Alright....DISCUSS! :elfqueen:

EDIT: that took a few tries, and eventually dispite my initial reservations I've had to image link it. Domlegolas, let me know if this isn't your imageshack site or if you don't want it linked, k? Thanks!

:rose:

[Cassandria]

Ooooh I love the turmoil Howe captured! The slant of the horizen I think really adds to that. The look on the Ents face is fierce and the fires look so hot! I even feel like I almost want to choke on the smoke and steam! I like it, very much! :thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

That's better! :grin:

Oooo that is a wonderful picture, I have not seen it before. The slant of the background is kinda threatening and the steam whipping around the towe like it's about to pull it down.

The colours here are minimal and that makes the bright colour of the flames stand out more and add to the threat.

[Domlegolas]

I liked it first time when I looked at Howe's webpage, so it was difficult to find the same painting at other webpages until I found another..
It feels like a real war by Ents at Isengard, yeah like face of ent, very angry.
Also each of ents' movenment is so heavy of angry feeling as I can feel it.
Background of storm, it tells a lot of emotions as it can feel how really it is like war at the moment.
Colours is so smooth but it's still a lot of stories on canvas.
Like Howe's job! Feel wow with this painting :thumbs:

Leia, I saved at my desk,then copied it via imageshack. So it's all right :)

[Elfdaughter]

I've always loved Howe's work - this is brilliant! I love the composition with the slant, and the juxtaposition between the straight tower and the swirling smoke....briliant!

[Domlegolas]

Hmm... ED makes me to think.... Yeah, I agree with u that I like Howe's art but I cant say if I like all of them... Some of them I really dislike but the reason? No idea, then I have to analyze more, isnt right? :blush:

[Gwaihir]

I've never seen this one before either. Is it one of his less well-known paintings?

I like it a lot.. the slant, of course, and the lighting that draws my attention to the tower. I can almost see the swirl of the steam moving!

[Periantari Andruil]

I find the angle in which it is drawn pretty interesting. I like Howe's take on the Ents wrecking Isengard. I agree with ED about "the juxtaposition between the straight tower and the swirling smoke"
The light colors that Howe uses is always one thing i like about his paintings. This really differs from his darker paintings of the evil things/scenes of ME.

:thumbs:

[Nessa the Dancer]

Domlegolas had suggested a new Painting for us to discuss it is by the Hildebrandt brothers: The Healing of Eowyn!

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5910/healingeowyngw1.jpg

I assume that the man at the end of the bed is Eomer but I'm not quite sure what he's suposed to be doing. I looks like he's pointing at something. Ahhh he's resting his arm on the foot of the bed. I think it would have been better if his arm was curved slightly.

I like the detail on the mail suits, and smoking goblet is really good, showing the insense filling the room.

[Domlegolas]

Mellon nin, Nessa :rose:

The painting reminds me quickly of the artist Caravaggio with a painting "The Calling of St Matthew" because of the light.
The light is so beautiful, and powerful of the painting. Background is so nice and a lot of curves.
I agree with Nessa about Eomer, I studied and it seems like Eomer's arm moves to pick bowl, so it is possible the painting tries with movenment... Or do we are talking different person? The man who hold helmet, Eomer? But it doesnt look like for me.. But his hand points, so it bothers me little... Humm...
But it is so nice with "colour family" and simple.