Music Lesson In a Tree

[bunn]

It was little Celegorm’s idea that Cousin Fingon’s music lesson should take place in a tree.  It’s possibly not the least distracting place to have a music lesson.   Fingon and Maglor are playing Anglo-saxon style harps (hearpe) which are much more practical for climbing trees (or Thangorodrim) with than a modern harp would be.  Fingon is playing a jewelled silver hearpe, which Maglor rather disapproves of (I decided that Maglor should disapprove of silver harps when I remembered that Elrond's harp at the end of Lord of the Rings is silver.  That might not make sense, but hey.)

I have decided that the auto settings do a better job of photographing paintings than I do manually. This was taken with a 28mm manual focus lens, and the 'landscape' camera mode.

As usual, I liked the pencil sketch of the faces better than the final painted version:

Comments

[hhimring]

I love this.
All of it, but especially how Fingon is turning around and his expression.

Just coincidentally, I came across the set of relevant Quenya words yesterday, the words for harp, little harp, harp music.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have in mind to practice my figure-painting with a series showing each of Finwe's grandchildren showing up (I had to make up the order since we only get birthdates for half of them of course.) The next are Turgon & Finrod, who do seem to have birth dates and I had not realised were born the same year.

If I do this, the last one will be of them both standing in two groups glaring while in the background Feanor holds a sword to Fingolfin.