And this is the piece which I did last year for Threads artbook. This goes with my older painting Black Swan…like usually, it was drawn in Photoshop and I drew it 15 hours. More info you can check on links above. Enjoy.
The Iron Crown of Lombardy (Corona Ferrea) is both areliquary and one of the oldest royal insignia ofChristendom. It was made in theEarly Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold fitted around a centraliron band, which according to legend was beaten out of a nail of theTrue Cross.
“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), by Soni Alcorn-Hender
Acrylics, pure silver leaf, and 22k gold leaf on paper; 21×29 cms.
Silmarillion experiments 6: Manwë, King of Arda and his wife Varda, sitting on the peak of Taniquetil ♥ (I have already more humanoid design for both of them… here I wanted to draw Manwë as vast sky and Varda as pure light….eh…. )
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