Alan Lee

             Alan Lee was born August 20^th, 1947 and is a well-known English illustrator and film conceptual designer. Watercolor painting and pencil sketching are his most common mediums.

Not much is known of Lee’s early life, but he came into the spot light when he and John Howe were hired by Peter Jackson. Together, they became lead concept artists for Lord of the Rings in 1998. Ten years later, both Howe and Lee came back when Guillermo del Toro recruited them for The Hobbit adaptation. But when Toro stepped down as director and Jackson took over, they stayed on to do what they do best.

Lee also concept designed for films such as Legend, Erik the Viking, King Kong and Merlin just to name a few. He even released a book that was a collection of his conceptual art for the Lord the Rings trilogy.

 One of his watercolor pieces deals with the story where two dragons, one red, one white will determine the outcome of a war in Northern Europe.

His use of very cool, bland colors gives it a spiritual feel to this and a lot of his pieces. I really like the feeling that I could probably see this as a dream sequence as everything seems to have a bright quality to them.