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g-m-kaye · 1 month

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More work in progress - a new tarot card design for either The Empress or Strength from the Major Arcana :)

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g-m-kaye · 2 months

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WIP of my High Priestess tarot painting!

This will be a full deck. Starting with the Major Arcana and then I’ll move on to the minor! Follow and watch this space for updates. I’ll be making individual paintings available as prints before producing the full tarot deck :)

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g-m-kaye · 3 months

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Míriel Therindë (also Serindë 😉) was the first wife of Finwë, the High King of the Ñoldor and the mother of Fëanor.

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g-m-kaye · 3 months

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“IMAGINATION” or… how it feels to lose yourself in a book you love :)

#art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #painting #artists on tumblr #reading #imagination #fantasy scenery #fantasy #fantasy landscape #fantasy illustration #fantasyart #drawing

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g-m-kaye · 3 months

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"Éowyn was slender and tall, with a grace and pride that came to her out of the South from Morwen of Lossarnach, whom the Rohirrim had called Steelsheen."

(Appendix A "The House of Eorl")

Éowyn with Shadowfax in the lush meadows of Rohan @megarywrites @sotwk :)

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g-m-kaye · 4 months

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When they asked me to paint my vision of a wild Arda in the 1st Age... this is what I came up with.

For a small static print of this painting, pls see my Etsy listing 🤍

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g-m-kaye · 5 months

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The burning of Ilium

#art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #painting #sketches #sketch #storyboard #Troy #Iliad #ideas #concpet art #film frames #greek epic #epic scenery #scenery #freeze frame #artist

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g-m-kaye · 8 months

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hi i was wondering if you do commissions?

Hello Anon :) ty for your question! I only very occasionally open commission slots, and if/when I do I’ll post this info here on my blog. However, I’m afraid I haven’t been doing online commissions for a long time due to my workload.

BUT what tell everyone who asks about commissions is this: even if I can’t open them right now, I still have my personal painting time.. and I am open to suggestions and ideas as to what I sketch/ design in those sessions 😉

So if you or anyone else want to suggest ideas or characters or scenes, please do! It’s something I will try to take into account… until proper commissions are possible once again!

#an ask!#painting commissions #commissions

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g-m-kaye · 8 months

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"Aredhel the White was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved to ride and hunt in the forests. There she was often in the company of the sons of Feanor, her kin; but to none was her heart's love given. Ar-Feiniel she was called, the White Lady of the Noldor, for she was pale, though her hair was dark, and she was never arrayed but in silver and white."

—The Silmarillion, Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie

I actually made two palette versions and can’t decide which I like better: above is “sunset” (more dramatic), and below is “twilight” (softer).

After doing a few quite illustrative, stylised paintings recently I think I may move back towards doing some realism for a bit

I’ve never really enjoyed sticking with one style of painting for too long - it’s more fun to switch around between stylised, realism and painterly imho :)

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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Solo post from my recent sketch dump - this is supposed to be a rough sketch of a different view of the Great River Anduin: where the Greylin and the Longwell meet & become the Anduin in the Northern reaches of Mirkwood, close to the Ered Mithrin.

#anduin #river anduin #ered mithrin #art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #the silmarillion #painting #tolkien #jrr tolkien #silmarillion #middle earth #lotrart #lotr #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #the hobbit #fantasy sketch

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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Sketching a rough concept for ASTERIA, mother of HEKATE 🔮

“ASTERIA (aka Delos) was the Titan goddess of falling stars and perhaps of nighttime divinations such as oneiromancy (by dreams) and astrology (by stars). She was the mother of Hekate (Hecate), goddess of witchcraft.”

#not sure I’ll take this one further tbh #asteria #hekate #Greek mythology #witch #witch aesthetic #art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #painting #doodle #greek gods #ancient greece #titans #mythology #fantasy art #moon #moon and stars

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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The Temple after sacking - sunrise.

#yes re-reading the Iliad XD #homer's iliad #the iliad #art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #painting #classical mythology #Greek epic #greek tragedy #hector of troy #achilles #epic heroes #landscape illustration #landscape painting

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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Fëanor to the Noldor: “…In Aman we have come through bliss to woe. The other now we will try: through sorrow to find joy; or freedom, at the least.”

Here is the sketch of Fëanor + unnamed Noldor elf on its own ❤️‍🔥

#fëanor #noldor #Silmarillion #the silmarillion #art #illustration #sketchbook #concept art #tolkien #painting #jrr tolkien #elves #tolkien elves #lotr tolkien silmarillion #valinor #concept sketch

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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Posting this sketch on its own at the request of my lovely friend @sotwk whose world building and love for Thranduil inspired this quick rendition of two Thranduilion riding in Greenwood the Great! 🌳 🍂

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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Here are six varied sketches I made for unrelated projects or simple, fun warm-up exercises! I think they look pretty together :)

What I was thinking for each sketch:

1. Noldor elves/ Feanor/ 2. I love oak trees!/ 3. I love storms/ 4. THRANDUILION! Legolas and another brother riding through the woods. Inspired partially by encountering and reading the lovely deep-lore fics of @sotwk which centre around Thranduil and his family/ 5. Yes Uve been re-reading the Iliad and re-watching Troy (2004) and it shows lol/ 6. I was thinking about the Anduin river and how it might look from a boat, near the wide shore.

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g-m-kaye · 9 months

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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” —Bilbo Baggins

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g-m-kaye · 10 months

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Nienna of the Valar; Nienna the Compassionate; “She who weeps”

“She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda has suffered in the marring of Melkor…But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope.”

(J R R Tolkien; The Silmarillion; Valaquenta)

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