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On the Ice: LeftHandOfDarknessby *frodo-lives

Traditional Art / Paintings / Sci-Fi

Genly Ai and Therem Harth rem ir Estraven on their epic trek across the polar ice cape of the planet Gethen, aka Winter.

How does one paint White Weather?? That condition were the light is so intense and so diffuse, being reflected from sky and ice in all directions, that you can't see anything because there are no shadows to outline the shapes of your surroundings?

Illustration for "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
characters and story are owned and operated by Ursula Le Guin.

This is the picture to go with the song - and there is the song to go with the picture - but I've removed it from my Myspace account, where I had posted it shortly, due to copyright restrictions (gotta be careful about those copyrights!!)

watercolours on Canson paper

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~GlaucusAtlanticus Mar 14, 2012

This is amazing. It captures the feeling of vast openness, the insignificance of two small figures against the ice, in a very beautiful way.

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*frodo-lives Mar 16, 2012 Professional General Artist

thank you! glad you like it.

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Still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

~rainbowneutron Nov 12, 2011

Very nice, captures spirit of the book

*frodo-lives Nov 13, 2011 Professional General Artist

thank you! It's a great book.

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Still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

*Starlace Feb 26, 2011 Traditional Artist

You've really captured the wintry atmosphere.

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"Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever."

*frodo-lives Feb 26, 2011 Professional General Artist

thank you!

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Visit me at home! [link] --- listen to my music! [link]

Still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

~jacmac Sep 29, 2010

WOW. This took my breath away.

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They say that the cake is a lie...

...But sometimes a cake is just a cake.

*frodo-lives Oct 7, 2010 Professional General Artist

thank you.

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Still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

~MandyMullins2 Aug 8, 2010

Pretty!

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*frodo-lives Aug 9, 2010 Professional General Artist

thank you!

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Visit me at home! [link] --- listen to my music! [link]

Still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

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