"Ulmo at Vinyamar"
Ulmo appears to Tuor at his home of Vinyamar.
"You all know the place in the legends where Ulmo shows himself at the shores of Vinyamar and Mount Taras, the long beaches where the white swans roam etc etc.
That was my second try in making a mosaic. its 121 x 85 cm."
"Breaking of the Spring"
"The last piece is non-Tolkien and the first try I had on mosaics but here it comes.
Size 70 x 120"
The last one is really some Norse longships but if others imagine swan ships like those I am fine with that. Tolkienvise I am more inclined to think Numenorean fisherboats from the southern Hyarnustar and Nindamos. (Unfinished Tales - Description of Numenor - Vëantur)
I have often had the lines of Vëantur in mind: "He brought his ship Entulasse into Mithlond on the spring winds blowing from the west.." I find it a magic phrase showing a clear and cold light blue sky with thorned thin white clouds and a dark greeenish sea with sharp waves topped with white foam and a tall ship riding proud with all sails set while passing lighthouses into a calmer bay. Maybe that should be the next mosaic project :)
"The last piece is non-Tolkien and the first try I had on mosaics but here it comes.
Size 70 x 120"
The last one is really some Norse longships but if others imagine swan ships like those I am fine with that. Tolkienvise I am more inclined to think Numenorean fisherboats from the southern Hyarnustar and Nindamos. (Unfinished Tales - Description of Numenor - Vëantur)
I have often had the lines of Vëantur in mind: "He brought his ship Entulasse into Mithlond on the spring winds blowing from the west.." I find it a magic phrase showing a clear and cold light blue sky with thorned thin white clouds and a dark greeenish sea with sharp waves topped with white foam and a tall ship riding proud with all sails set while passing lighthouses into a calmer bay. Maybe that should be the next mosaic project :)
"Smaug and the Lonely Mountain"
Smaug and the Lonely Mountain took 8 months from idea to completion.
The third try "is called Smaug and the Lonely Mountain.
The landscape is copied from one of John Howe's because he hit the "feel" of it right on in my opinion but of cause the transformation into mosaic changed it a great deal.
The dragon is one I have used before in drawings but now turned into mosaic and inserted in the landscape.
The original idea of this mosaic was to build it into the floor of my terrace but now it's done I am not sure it's possible and it might just go for the wall."
Size is 122 x 105."
Smaug and the Lonely Mountain took 8 months from idea to completion.
The third try "is called Smaug and the Lonely Mountain.
The landscape is copied from one of John Howe's because he hit the "feel" of it right on in my opinion but of cause the transformation into mosaic changed it a great deal.
The dragon is one I have used before in drawings but now turned into mosaic and inserted in the landscape.
The original idea of this mosaic was to build it into the floor of my terrace but now it's done I am not sure it's possible and it might just go for the wall."
Size is 122 x 105."