Image 1 — Finished reading the books to my kids this year, so showing them Two Towers for the first time. Theme food! Sam’s Coney Pasties (this time WITH taters), Gollum’s Forbidden Pool Salmon Canapés, Faramir’s Henneth Annûn Ranger Board, and some Fangorn Ent-Draught (I might have added some gin to mine…)
Image 2 — Finished reading the books to my kids this year, so showing them Two Towers for the first time. Theme food! Sam’s Coney Pasties (this time WITH taters), Gollum’s Forbidden Pool Salmon Canapés, Faramir’s Henneth Annûn Ranger Board, and some Fangorn Ent-Draught (I might have added some gin to mine…)
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Finished reading the books to my kids this year, so showing them Two Towers for the first time. Theme food! Sam’s Coney Pasties (this time WITH taters), Gollum’s Forbidden Pool Salmon Canapés, Faramir’s Henneth Annûn Ranger Board, and some Fangorn Ent-Draught (I might have added some gin to mine…)

u/jejwood — 5 hours ago
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This one was a mother load; over forty hours in. Gouache, gold and silver leaf, and gold and silver paint, on A3 Bristol

u/jejwood — 1 day ago
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My kids have been forbidden from watching LOTR until we’ve read all the books. The time has come! Sausage rolls, Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms and taters, jam tarts, and pumpernickel, roast beef, cornichons and roasted pearl onions (from the Prancing Pony, of course). And ale for papa…

u/jejwood — 1 month ago
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I regret beyond words how inadequately an old beat up cell phone camera captures the beauty of gold, lapis lazuli, and physical art media in general. For a fellow Shiite Catholic.

u/jejwood — 1 month ago
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Doing a side project while waiting for paint to dry on gold leaf for a commission. 24 carat shell gold and lapis lazuli ultramarine blue…

u/jejwood — 1 month ago
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For a fourth generational Royal Danish Naval officer, whose name literally means “of the sea.” I had fun experimenting with a quite unconventional mantling style, and the richness of ultramarine blue gets me every time.

u/jejwood — 1 month ago