Hello Again, So this time I will be showing the process of painting the latest card of mine that has been released. The new Lord of the Rings LCG expansion pack from Fantasy Flight Games, "The Road Darkens", has become available, which has my "Leaf-Wrapped Lembas" card. When I received the assignment, around this time last year, I was immediately excited. I had been wanting a good excuse to do a highly detailed bread still-life, in the tradition of 18th c. Spanish painters like Luis Meléndez. I then researched what Tolkien was intending his Lembas bread to be similar to; it turns out he was thinking of Bannock bread. Luckily enough, I told my wife about this, and she instantly whips out her obsession: Yvette van Boven 's Cookbook, Homemade Winter . She has a great recipe for Bannock bread. So we quickly fried the bread that night; fried, because it is cooked on a pan over the burners. It looked great, I was quite happy with the outcome on a purely
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