Paintings
A selection of paintings by Daniel Reeve, including watercolours, oils and acrylics.
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"Hesperus", a calligraphy artwork made with the text of the poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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"Hobbiton Across The Water" - watercolour. |
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"The Hobbiton Mill" - watercolour. Both this painting and the one above it show parts of the film set as built for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This beautiful film set still exists now as a tourist attraction near Matamata, New Zealand. Both paintings hang in the Green Dragon pub, also part of the films, and also at this location. |
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Government House, Wellington. This was a demonstration painting for Watercolour New Zealand's monthly painting group. |
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A portrait of famous NZ poet James K Baxter. Detail shown at right. |
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"How To Decorate Your Hobbit Hole", a demonstration painting using a limited palette of 3 colours. |
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Three of the four acrylics shown below are painted with a palette knife: the Liquidambar leaves, the Tuatara (a lizard-like relative of the dinosaurs found only in New Zealand) and the Weta (a very large and fearsome-looking nocturnal cricket, also indigenous). The painting of the Weta hangs in New Zealand's Parliament.
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More illustrative artwork can be seen on the Illustration and The Lord of the Rings Illustrations pages.