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One of the watercolor woodcuts I'll have for sale at AC! These were invented in Provincetown, MA in the 1910s - instead of carving fifty blocks and making fifty prints, you carve one block and make countless monoprints. (There's more of them; the "1/1" is only because that was the only print I made that evening. Don't trust one without the date.)
You nail the paper to a block of wood, apply the watercolor to the raised surface, and the grooves remain white. But since the rubbing pushes the paper down, you get this great raised tile glaze texture to the whole thing.
But best of all, you can play with texture for days. Putting down white below the color so it comes out as a fuzzy mouse coat, applying it dry and gummy and moistening it, or (like Bilbo's jacket) instead of rubbing it down, just slap the paper with your fingers. The possibilities are infinite. Next time I'll put some saran wrap on the wood and see how it blobs.
I imagined Hobbits as mostly human when I read the books, but I love everybody who's drawn them like fucked up little rabbity creatures. They deserve ears and a tail and the hint of a muzzle.
Also, some dad wrote a post saying he read the whole book to his daughters while She/Her'ing Bilbo the entire time, and it didn't change the plot one bit, but was a fascinating dimension.
If FA still had the gender tags, I'd put it under trans guy, because why not. Short hairy king.
Fun fact, if you count the Rose from Le Petit Prince, The Hobbit is the bestselling book of all time not to have a woman in it.
You nail the paper to a block of wood, apply the watercolor to the raised surface, and the grooves remain white. But since the rubbing pushes the paper down, you get this great raised tile glaze texture to the whole thing.
But best of all, you can play with texture for days. Putting down white below the color so it comes out as a fuzzy mouse coat, applying it dry and gummy and moistening it, or (like Bilbo's jacket) instead of rubbing it down, just slap the paper with your fingers. The possibilities are infinite. Next time I'll put some saran wrap on the wood and see how it blobs.
I imagined Hobbits as mostly human when I read the books, but I love everybody who's drawn them like fucked up little rabbity creatures. They deserve ears and a tail and the hint of a muzzle.
Also, some dad wrote a post saying he read the whole book to his daughters while She/Her'ing Bilbo the entire time, and it didn't change the plot one bit, but was a fascinating dimension.
If FA still had the gender tags, I'd put it under trans guy, because why not. Short hairy king.
Fun fact, if you count the Rose from Le Petit Prince, The Hobbit is the bestselling book of all time not to have a woman in it.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fanart
Species Exotic (Other)
Size 1870 x 1970px
File Size 4.44 MB
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