Emily Austin

@emilyaustindesign.bsky.social

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She/her. Artist, graphic designer, Tolkien illustrator. Married to @tacol0rd.bsky.social. 💜 travel, Jane Austen, inclusive faith, community solidarity. emilyaustindesign.com/hello art prints, commissions, & design freelance.

a view of an auditorium stage from a balcony during the event Q&A time. The event was held at St Mary’s College in South Bend, IN. On the stage in two armchairs are the moderator and featured speaker Emily Wilson. The other featured speaker, Madeline Miller, attended the event virtually, and appears behind them on a screen.
A small watercolor painting showing a corner of the picturesque ruin Tintern Abbey. We look down a green corridor with pillars on the right side, and face a window showing more green behind it and blue sky above (there is no roof).
Image shows a stack of four cards with my illustration “A Very Snowy Hobbiton” on it. The painting includes a series of three hobbit homes under a single hill. They are blanketed with snow and cheerful light spills from their windows. A full moon shines over a blue evening sky. In the foreground, a tiny hobbit mom and child are walking to one of the homes.
Image shows a photo of my illustration of the Prancing Pony Inn as laid out in physical poster format. See next image for description of the artwork itself!
A gif from the animated film Song of the Sea, showing the selkie girl Saoirse diving into the green-blue sea with the other seals.
Image shows a pencil sketch (foundation of a watercolor) depicting four hobbits and their five ponies at lower left, crossing the open space between the Hedge and the Old Forest. The forest’s trees loom over the right half of the image atop a slight rise in the ground.
Painting shows Sam, facing viewers and looking back towards Frodo, who is closer but faces mostly away from us. The pair hold hands as they walk through a tunnel of thorny, yellow-blossomed gorse bushes, Gollum creeping in the distance ahead. The image is very tall and narrow to show the tunnel of plants, and is composed in dull yellows, browns, purples and greens under a faint light.
Image shows a page from the Kelmscott Chaucer, specifically beginning the prologue to the Wife of Bath’s Tale.
A selection of my Middle-earth bookmarks arranged in front of a stack of books, including The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Story of Kullervo, The Dark Fantastic, and The Ladies of Grace Adieu
My print of the Prancing Pony Inn framed and hung on the wall next to a huge Middle-earth map. Several Tolkien related books sit on a shelf below.
Image shows a hand holding a small painting of a maple leaf in its autumn glory of red and orange, with yellow veins. Small dots of red and yellow surround the leaf on the white textured paper.
A top-down shot of one poster with two others peeking from beneath. They are all lying on a plain white background.
Close up photo shows just one corner of a piece of artwork. The details are obscured but bright light is visible and some fuzzy figures. The numbers “03/150” are handwritten under the image.
image shows a stack of notecards featuring cozy hobbit holes covered in snow with a full moon shining brightly. A hobbit parent and child follow a few footsteps in the foreground.
A digital sketch showing a single rowan tree, laden with red berries shining out against the deep green of its leaves.
This piece portrays Yavanna as a Black woman in 3/4 profile. Her eyes look at the viewer and her dark hair has highlights of blue, red, and gold. Flowers and leaves of gold and silver surround her, over a background of yellow and green.
This is a tall and narrow watercolor painting focusing in on the mound of Cerin Amroth. One central tree with a big gray trunk stands at the center. In its branches at the top of the painting, a round tent-like structure sits on a platform. Smaller trees ring around the central one. They all have brilliant yellow leaves. At the bottom of the painting, small trees with white trunks make a larger circle around the mallorn mound. These smaller trees have no leaves; nevertheless small white and yellow flowers form blushes of color on the green grass. In the background, a sea of other mallorn trees fade into low hills and a pale blue sky.
A black and white digital sketch showing two white trees against a pure black sky. Stars appear as myriad pinpricks between the bare branches, which arc around the top and sides of the drawing.
It is a crisp, early Fall day. The sky is light blue. A golden-leaved oak tree sits atop a hill, dropping leaves here and there. A little lower in the hill is a round blue hobbit door, draped by crimson vines. A pathway of stone steps descends from the door and curves toward the viewer.
My painting of a yellow sunset casting its final rays over a scene of hills engulfed in a carpet of fog. On the central hill, tiny figures cluster near a large standing stone. In the foreground several more stones frame the image like teeth.