Kip Rasmussen is a painter, author and independent film producer. He uses traditional acrylic paints and his art has appeared in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug DVD, The Official 2023 Tolkien Calendar, Numenor the Mighty and Frail (2025) from The Tolkien Society as well as ten volumes of commentary by David Day including the Illustrated World of Tolkien, The Second Age of Tolkien, A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien, The Dark Powers of Tolkien, and the Heroes of Tolkien. Kip is currently working on developing some new Star Wars traditional paintings. Stay tuned for more!
