2021.12-2022.01 – One Last Time

A Last One
Grégory Geng
Age of man is over. – My sketch of the orc Gothmog from LOTR 3. “The age of man is over. The time of the orc has come.”
Mark Soco
Almost the end… – ….of the Hobbit 😉 – Watercolour
Graeme
Broken shield
Sergiu
Circle of Life – It begins…..it ends. For some of us, sooner than later.
Carol Craig
Cirdan and the Last Ship
CaroB
Embroidery – This is a quick little embroidery representing how John has inspired and encouraged so many artists, through the Theme of the Month and in many other ways. 
Canuck Girl
Facing Fear – Final Boss. Done in graphite. 
Mark Soco
Farewell – This will be my version of me leaving this world for the next when my time comes. Particularly poignant as my cancer progresses lately.
Carol Craig
Four Seasons – I thought this is one of my ALL TIME favorite images to depict the cycle of life. Life begins and ends.
Carol Craig
Goodbye
Graeme
Goodbye daisy – Just a goodbye, not a farewell. 

I’ll see you.
Daisy Alanna
Last Call – The final countdown. The last hurrah. Hopefully just the beginning. 
Carol Craig
Last Stand
Sergiu
Leaving Bag End – Gouache and photoshop

More detailed version http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/2021-img/Leaving_Bag_End_v2b.pdf
Graeme
Morgoth
Sergiu
One Last Look – Paying one last look.
Mark Soco
 
One Last TiMoo – How could I let the final theme of the month go by without submitting Daisy the dairy cow one last time?
Alanna
Salut
Dean
The End
Graeme
The magic of the ring
Sergiu
Well….
Graeme
When John was Gandalf
My sketch of John as Gandalf. Thought I’d add in a real-world material such as his glasses to a fantasy setting to make it quirky and, well, like John. Thank you for inspiring me and other artists. 
Mark Soco
 

2021.05 – Celtic

Carvings – Segui
Knotted Gandalf – Graeme
Gandalf’s hat in a knot.
Sword – Segui
The Artist – Sergui
The First Strike – Graeme
The first nervous tap starting off the Celtic knot carving 😉 
Watercolour (with a touch of photoshop).
Wolf – CaroB

2021.04 -EPIC!

Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities
My drawing of Smaug done in pencils on toned tan paper. I always thought his encounter with Bilbo (in the movie) was both epic and memorable. Mark Soco
Green Knight
No sign of Sir Gawain yet. Watercolour A4 Graeme
 
Grendel –  Sergiu
 
Grendel attack –  Sergiu
 
 
La Chanson de Roland/The Song of Roland –  CaroB
 
 
La quête des Silmarils-Angband –  Grégory GENG
 
 

2021.03 – It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

Taking Shelter – Wet and cold from the long road, the young dwarf Vidar, only a mere 22 years old, warms himself next to the fire while blowing some smoke rings of his own. Oliver Kriel
Stormcrow – Gandalf on a stormy day. Watercolour Graeme
Storm in the Shire – Quick colour study for a stormy Shire painting I have in mind – needs some work, light, rain, detail, inspiration 😉 Acrylic on board A4 Graeme
Storm – Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (German pronunciation: [?te?odo??? ??t??m]; 14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German writer. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism. Tobi
Sheltering – Gandalf taking shelter, there’s an animated version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-4oUo1AQaY 
Watercolour (well mainly watercolour, the animated version had all the rain removed in photoshop and then animated rain added in after effects). Graeme
Rider in the Storm – Niggle riding to find the doctor. Photoshop Graeme
 
Rainy Night – Pencil, grey sketchbook CaroB
Grégory GENG
Ghost in the Storm – Digital painting, Corel Painter CaroB
Ghost in the Storm – Digital painting, Corel Painter CaroB
 
A Cold Rain – Sergui

2021.02 – Just Next Door

Juste à côté – Grégory GENG
King Eveling’s Court
“The Roman Fort of Mediobogdvm, above Hardknott Pass, is said to hold a fairy rath where King Eveling holds his court.”

Acrylic on board. Graeme
Spectral Army
The legend goes that back in 1735 a spectral army was seen marching over Souther Fell, it was seen again some years later by a number of other people.


Although the legend says they were marching I thought a charge more appropriate 😉


For more info https://esmeraldamac.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-ghostly-procession-at-souther-fell/


Procreate on iPad Pro
Graeme
 
The Lake
Strasbourg’s Cathedral is supposed to have been erected on the original celtic sacred site. Because of the groundwater the foundations sit on oak and alder beams. It is said that there is in fact a lake underneath the Cathedral. A mysterious boat drifts on the dark water. The entrance of the lake is in the basement of a house facing the Cathedral. The door to the cave has been walled. CaroB
The Last King of Cumbria
Anyone that has driven through the Lake District has likely seen the mound of stones at Dunmail Raise, legend goes that it’s the burial place for the last king of Cumbria who was killed in battle there. His crown was taken and thrown in a nearby tarn and each year the spirits of his warriors retrieve the crown and take it back to him to see if he is ready to return and he declines saying the time has not yet come. Some of the legend associated with the last king of Cumbria is thought to be where parts of the King Arthur legend came from. 

Watercolour Graeme
The Luck of Edenhall
Just down the road is is the village of Edenhall, there used to be a large country house there and the Luck of Edenhall is associated with that house. The legend goes…
‘a party of Fairies were drinking and making merry round a well near the Hall, called St Cuthbert’s well; but being interrupted by the intrusion of some curious people, they were frightened, and made a hasty retreat, and left the cup in question: one of the last screaming out,

If this cup should break or fall
Farewell the Luck of Edenhall.’

Watercolour A3ish Graeme
The Transformation
The stone circle of Long Meg and her Daughters has a number of myths associated with it, one is that Meg was a witch who along with her daughters profaned the sabbath by dancing and were turned to stone, another myth has the transformation being carried out by a spell from the wizard Michael Scott. 

Acrylic around A3 Graeme
Col? citadel – Col? citadel was build in the XIV century at the footsteps of Retezat mountains. Jules Verne visit it long ago and it became the inspiration for his story „The castle in the Carpatians”. Sergiu