Alan Lee
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Strider walked forward unconcernedly, 'Get up, old stone!' he
said, and broke his stick upon the stooping troll.
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The work I have chosen to look at is at illustration by Alan lee. This illustration is in the novel The
Fellowship of the Ring. It is titled “The Stone Trolls". This piece is a watercolour painting, which is the medium Alan likes to work in the most. The watercolour produces a slight glow to the whole painting, this makes it very much a fantasy illustration. The watercolour also allows the painting to have a great amount of detail. The trolls themselves are very much the vocal point of the painting. They are placed in the middle of the painting and given the forest as a background but also a foreground. Almost creating an open vocal point in the painting. Overall the is a lovely painting.
Alan painted this Illustration around 1993-1995 when the anniversary edition of the lord of the rings books were re published. Around this time Computer design was not used that much in book illustration. So Alan sketched with pencil and used watercolour to produce the work in all of his works within the novels. This gives his work a well know and recognisable style. Which he can usethought out the years of his career.
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