mightiest and fairest of all f-elves

You know, I really liked my Idea for this one. The black paper, the white paint.  The white foreground the silhouettes further back … But then my boyfriend came, looked at it and said: Looks great, but – you know, it’s not right. He does sit on top of  that mountain … .:. This post […]

I’ve always imagined the Girdle of Melian to be – at least in parts- botanical. Some maze of trees and shrubs and thorns … A bit like the castle of ’sleeping beauty‘ … briar rose and blackberries … In the drawing I kept it a bit simpler. Just vegetation before a hill and two clearly […]

I like this one. I like the merging of the elvish and the dwarven styles. The dwarfish side seems to be prone to circles. The treetops are simple spirals, and so are the waves. It’s a design piece I adopted from the before mentioned hobbit drawings. The elvish side is the art deco side. The […]

Do we have Ships? – Yes. Are they White? – Yes. Do we have Water? – Yes. Are the Ships burning? – Yes. Is there anything else? – No. Title and Picture are a match. That’s good. .:. This post is part of the Series ‘Mightiest and Fairest of all F-Elves – Illustrating Tolkiens Silmarillion’ […]

I wanted to capture the essence of all things spidery. Which is not ‚having way too much legs‘, but ‚webs and strings everywhere‘. I like the composition of this one. .:. This post is part of the Series ‚Mightiest and Fairest of all F-Elves – Illustrating Tolkiens Silmarillion‘ You will find all the pictures in […]

You know what happens if you stay to long out there in the woods, don’t you? Nature comes cuddling. .:. This post is part of the Series ‚Mightiest and Fairest of all F-Elves – Illustrating Tolkiens Silmarillion‘ You will find all the pictures in my Portfolio

Once more… I struggled hard with the trees. They had to be extraordinary and divine, with big, visible flowers, but still, well … treelike. My chief source of inspiration came one spring in the form of a tree of ‚golden rain‘ (Laburnum anagyroides) which laid the ground for the fundamental tree…shape (the must be another […]

„The Light of the Trees!“ „What trees?“ „THE Trees!“ „Oh, the TREES! What are they called again?“ „What? The twinkletrees? „Yes dear, the twinkletrees!“ „Laurelin and Telperion.“ „Oh, Manwe, please …“ This one goes out to all the members of the ‚German Bedřich Hrozný Society‘ .:. This post is part of the Series ‘Mightiest and […]

I’m always having trouble with people, even the fictional ones. .:. This post is part of the Series ‘Mightiest and Fairest of all F-Elves – Illustrating Tolkiens Silmarillion’ You will find all the pictures in my Portfolio