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An experiment with watercolor and gouache, this is an illustration for Chapter 19 of my Hobbit-inspired story, “Love Is A Shield”, where Thorin imagines himself painting flowers in an effort to establish a lasting connection with Bilbo before they part.

“He begins painting. It’s all just experiments; he will probably not be able to grow such flowers in the Mountain, but he can try to create them in some other way. So he paints his ideas, some carefully informed by the pictures he’s seen in Thranduil’s books, others flowing directly from his subconscious. Some of his resulting “flowers” are lights projected on a wall of different shapes and colors; others are painted on walls, on glass, on rocks... and Thorin doesn’t know which ones are him.”

Description
An experiment with watercolor and gouache, this is an illustration for Chapter 19 of my Hobbit-inspired story, “Love Is A Shield”, where Thorin imagines himself painting flowers in an effort to establish a lasting connection with Bilbo before they part.

“He begins painting. It’s all just experiments; he will probably not be able to grow such flowers in the Mountain, but he can try to create them in some other way. So he paints his ideas, some carefully informed by the pictures he’s seen in Thranduil’s books, others flowing directly from his subconscious. Some of his resulting “flowers” are lights projected on a wall of different shapes and colors; others are painted on walls, on glass, on rocks... and Thorin doesn’t know which ones are him.”