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"Across so wide a Sea..."
February 8th, 2010
Watercolors, pencil, masking fluid

I did this for a friend of mine. She asked me to make a Galadriel for her, so here it is. I'm not really very happy about it. I don't know, I mean, I guess it's okay. I suppose I'm just not satisfied with it for some reason. Her dress was supposed to be white, but, because I always do blue as the shadows to make it look more cold and pure, it kind of got gunked up, so I just made it blue. *shrugs* Galadriel looks good in blue too I guess. I used a lot of masking fluid with this one, particularly in the pearls and the border. It's a bit too big for my scanner (as in, it cute her off at the knees) so I took a picture, and thus, the less-than-good quality. Enjoy anyway.

"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold,
and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came
and in the branches blew.

Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon,
the foam was on the Sea,
And by the strand of Ilmarin
there grew a golden Tree.

Beneath the stars of Ever-eve
in Eldamar it shone,
In Eldamar beside the walls
of Elven Tirion.

There long the golden leaves have grown
upon the branching years,
While here beyond the Sundering Seas
now fall the Elven-tears.

O Lorien! The Winter comes,
the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream,
the River flows away.

O Lorien! Too long I have dwelt
upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined
the golden elanor.

But if of ships I now should sing,
what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back
across so wide a Sea?"

Closer, scanned, more detaily version: [link]

EDIT: Okay, I tried, I really did. : There is a huge line right through it, because I scanned it into two parts and had only Paint to edit it together with. I wish I had Photoshop, but I don't. So please excuse that horrible line right through the middle....

EDIT (Take Two!!): ~Sirielle was very kind to offer to fix my picture. So thank you ~Sirielle for editing my picture, and also for giving me a tutorial on editing pictures in the future!

Description
"Across so wide a Sea..."
February 8th, 2010
Watercolors, pencil, masking fluid

I did this for a friend of mine. She asked me to make a Galadriel for her, so here it is. I'm not really very happy about it. I don't know, I mean, I guess it's okay. I suppose I'm just not satisfied with it for some reason. Her dress was supposed to be white, but, because I always do blue as the shadows to make it look more cold and pure, it kind of got gunked up, so I just made it blue. *shrugs* Galadriel looks good in blue too I guess. I used a lot of masking fluid with this one, particularly in the pearls and the border. It's a bit too big for my scanner (as in, it cute her off at the knees) so I took a picture, and thus, the less-than-good quality. Enjoy anyway.

"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold,
and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came
and in the branches blew.

Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon,
the foam was on the Sea,
And by the strand of Ilmarin
there grew a golden Tree.

Beneath the stars of Ever-eve
in Eldamar it shone,
In Eldamar beside the walls
of Elven Tirion.

There long the golden leaves have grown
upon the branching years,
While here beyond the Sundering Seas
now fall the Elven-tears.

O Lorien! The Winter comes,
the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream,
the River flows away.

O Lorien! Too long I have dwelt
upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined
the golden elanor.

But if of ships I now should sing,
what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back
across so wide a Sea?"

Closer, scanned, more detaily version: [link]

EDIT: Okay, I tried, I really did. : There is a huge line right through it, because I scanned it into two parts and had only Paint to edit it together with. I wish I had Photoshop, but I don't. So please excuse that horrible line right through the middle....

EDIT (Take Two!!): ~Sirielle was very kind to offer to fix my picture. So thank you ~Sirielle for editing my picture, and also for giving me a tutorial on editing pictures in the future!