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I have been working on a new image for the Green Man. The Green Man is normally depicted full face but I am experimenting with half profile at the moment.
Here is the first draft. It was drawn with Derwents last weekend.
As a child I longed for a complete set of Derwent pencils but they were for children with wealthier parents than I had. I had to wait for my son to give me a set, which he did, for Christmas, two or three years ago.
The final will probably be in water colour or possibly oil paint but, after all these years, I still turn to pencils first when working up new ideas.
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Do you think Tolkien's Ents were inspired by the Green Man? (or would that have been Bombadil?)
Posted by: Jonathan at September 24, 2003 12:02 AMI *always* wanted Derwent pencils too, but we couldn't afford them either. Now, much, much older, I am sitting here eyeing my box of inferior Faber-Castells as I write this, and wondering why I have never thought to buy some for myself...or ask for them as pressies....strange Green Man...very strange.
Posted by: saint at September 24, 2003 12:29 AMLooks good!
Posted by: Homie Bear at September 24, 2003 06:43 AMTom Bombadil is the Green Man in the Lord of the Rings, see this post.
The Green Man is strange, and a little disturbing, and I am hoping to capture this in the image. He represents a primal part of ourselves that developed when we too occupied the ancient woodland. We are not always prepared to admit to this ancient part of our psyche these days but that doesn't mean it has gone away.
Posted by: GreenMan at September 24, 2003 07:48 AM
Stumble It!