Saturday 30 March 2013

Hobbit Cake

Its overly narrative cake time! This is another painted one, based on the scene in the hobbit where Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves are set upon by goblins. They escape by climbing trees, which the goblins set fire to, singing the gruesome song I've put on the cake - in excerpted form. Tolkien's songs are generally a bit wordy for decorative applications. Luckily, Gandalf is able to negotiate an eagle rescue.
Its sad that the photo's so blurry - I forgot my camera - as there's a lot of detail that isn't coming across. Most of it was painted in a sneaky corner of Pret A Manger in my lunchbreak, with the benign interference of two Glaswegian lawyers.