“But there was in Thranduil’s heart a still deeper shadow. He had seen the horror of Mordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south its memory dimmed the light of the Sun.”
JRR Tolkien, Unfinished Tales
The Elvenking in Winter (book version)
Acrylics, pure silver leaf, and 22k gold leaf on paper; 21×29 cms.
Prints etc. available here.
Work in progress:
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 5, March, 2018
https://bohemianweasel.com/2018/03/05/thranduil-in-winter/
Finished: Thranduil upon his throne,
Acrylics, gold leaf, red crystals (in his crown), and sass: 8.3×11.5″
In his crown alone there’s so much gold leaf that dragons are gathering outside my studio. Though they’re poor appreciators of art, they just sit on it.
Prints and pretty things available here.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Sunday 3, July, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/07/03/3626/
31 Days of drawing, Day 5. The prompt: ‘A movie/TV character drawn in a cartoony way‘
Even though he’s first and foremost a book character, the movie version makes a good subject: Thranduil.
As a ‘cartoon’ it’s a failure: too many lines by about five-bajillion lines, and peculiarly Byzantine, but I like it anyway. :) But I still (really) need to practise drawing cartoons and other simplified, non OCD things.
Inks and liquid leaf on scatty cardstock. 8×10″
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 12, October, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/10/12/31-day-art-challenge-day-5/
Hobbit ‘Illuminations’: with European medieval illuminations and bookplates as an inspiration, this was an experiment to create illustrations that might look like they came from the books of Middle-earth itself.
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Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Sunday 21, July, 2013
https://bohemianweasel.com/2013/07/21/hobbit-illuminations-finished/
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