Rickerby Park

Journey

Illustration Friday, this is only my second entry for it but I'm going to do more.

Ahh Panic and Stress my old friends...

Old but not lost friends, unfortunately our relationship is still ongoing.

Colourful

An idea for a spread for my last project of this uni year. Describing my colourful nature and style.

Childhood Memories

If you can recognise a place by just the railing and trees in the background of a tiny photograph you know you've been there either too many times or it's an important place to you. Especially if it's not school, work or home.
This is one of my favourite pictures of my childhood and yes I can recognise the place because I have definately been there far too many times and it's also quite a memorable place for me. Clitheroe Castle long before they chopped all the trees down.

Wild Birds at Home

I've been to the second hand bookshop again, I bought this lovely little book about birds. I was first attracted by the cover (above) because the illustration is so pretty. I'm quite a fan of birds and well any animal really and I when I saw the photos inside I thought, wow these are lovely. So I have chosen a few to share:

The Silmarillion Fini

This has taken me a while to post, I've been a bit ill recently but I'm better now hopefully and shall get back to posting more often.

These are my final illustrations of 'The Silmarillion' by JRR Tolkien.
This one is Telperion and Laurelin, the trees of Valinor. Born of the thought of Yavanna and the ancestors of the sun and the moon and the White Tree of Gondor.


This is the Vala Oromë and his horse Nahar. He was a hunter and with his hounds he hunts the fell beasts of Melkor's thought.



This is the elven city Tirion sat upon the green hill of Túna nestled between the Pelóri Mountains. Here the Noldor and the Vanyar lived in harmony.



These last two illustrations are the least successful, I was ill at the time but they were also my least developed ideas.
Fëanor rallying the Noldor to return to middle earth and recapture the silmarils stolen from them by Melkor.



And finally, Carcharoth the werewolf, fed on Melkor's hate, evil and power, after he has bitten off the hand of Beren which was holding a silmaril.



I really enjoyed this project, especially the painting part of it. I first read the Silmarillion when I was about fourteen maybe fifteen, I really enjoyed it as a challenge because it was so hard to read. I got a bit worried about half way through the project that by illustrating this book I would ruin it for myself but even though it didn't go well at the end I don't think I've ruined it. My favourite of the five is Tirion on Túna, I like the colours.