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✨Valar and Valier series (late 2000s)✨ - 🌳🌿Yavanna Kementári🌿🌳
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I now prefer to headcanon Yavanna as dark-skinned, but I quite like how this watercolour turned out - especially the gradation of the different greens in the dress and mantle, and the trees in the background. I also love Alan Lee’s original drawing on which this painting is based 🌿💚 (swipe for the comparison! Original is black and white, coloured by me as a guide for the painting).
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Some years ago I started a ‘Valar and Valier’ project in which I took an existing painting/drawing as reference/inspiration to draw/paint one of the Valar. So far, I’ve done Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Mandos and Aulë, and I also have some sketches of Nessa, Vána and Estë. Hope to get back to this project sometime!
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. 🎨Media: Graphite, watercolours, inks, ink wash
. 🌱References: Alan Lee’s drawing of the Celtic fae Ladies of the Land of the Young, for the book Faeries.
🎨Cara