Tuesday 29 January 2019

4th Painting Challenge Entry - Faramir, Captain of Gondor

This was supposed to be my entry for the second Bonus Theme in the Painting Challenge, but unfortunately real life conspired to prevent me completing him by the deadline, so he forms the only figure in my fourth entry for the Challenge.

The plan for the Bonus Themes is for every entry to be from the Lord of the Rings, and to be honest coming up for something to do with Sport was leaving me scratching my head. In the end, inspiration came from this quote from the third book, The Return of the King:

"[Gandalf] fell silent and sighed. 'Well, no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come. And there is nothing that I can do to help it. The board is set, and the pieces are moving. One piece that I greatly desire to find is Faramir, now the heir of Denethor. I do not think he is in the City; but I have no time to gather news. I must go, Pippin. I must go to this lords' council and learn what I can. But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are likely to see as much of it as any, Peregrin son of Paladin, soldier of Gondor. Sharpen your blade!"

And so here is Faramir, Ranger and Captain of Gondor, and the piece Gandalf desires to find.





Although I am pretty pleased with how he turned out, the silver tree on his chest did my head in, as no matter how many times I tried, I just could not get it done to may satisfaction - the branches are just painted too thickly. I will have to console myself with fact that from 3' on the table it will be fine!

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