Mythical Bookshelves

 

I finally finished this one!  I finished the line art seven years ago, way back in 2017 and just finally got around to finishing it up.  Its got lots of wonderful details although I like to think I've gotten at least a little better at drawing people since then.

Lake With Ruins

 

 

And here it is in color.  I just drew this from my imagination.

Saddle Yak Is Back!

 

 

I finally finished coloring it.  I sort of took a break from this one cause I felt like I was just getting bogged down with all the tiny details, but I got back to it (or back in the saddle, heh) and finished it and I think it came out great!

And here's a link to the wonderful stock image this was based on:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bos_grunniens_at_Yundrok_Yumtso_Lake.jpg

Another Dragon In Clouds

 Some times its nice to just sit back and watch the dragons go by.  I wish I had more time off from my other jobs.  If I had more time off there would be more art.

Clouds With Dragon

 

 

I think this acrylic painting came out pretty good.  Maybe I could spin it into a new header image for my blog.

Boy With Yak

 

Here's the color version!  :)

Happy new year everybody!

And remember to vote for Trump!!

Reference Image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mutiger_Reiter_auf_Yak_Yama.JPG

Giant Bees - Or Tiny Rabbits?

I finished another watercolor.  It feels good to finish things like this. :)

Coastline With Floating Islands

 Looks like a peaceful sort of place.

Happy Little Clouds :)

 Here is a painting of clouds I did from a photo that I took.  I figure clouds are a good thing to learn to paint because they are in the background of so many things.

New art for sale!

 I have more artwork for sale in my Society6 shop!  A generic landscape and a wombat for the wall of your burrow.

Landscape: https://society6.com/product/landscape-with-flowers6746093_print?sku=s6-23583199p4a1v45

Wombat: https://society6.com/product/wombat6746069_print?sku=s6-23583161p4a1v45#reviews

Painting

 

11"x14" oils on acrylic on canvas board.  I'm not much good at painting, its just something I mess around with in my spare time.  Drawing is fine but once in a while I like to do something in color.

Floating Island - Watercolor Pencils

 

Watercolor pencils are great, they're so convenient and I like that they leave a texture.

Update:

And here's two more in black and white and sepia.  Just trying things out and experimenting :)

Guy With A Twig

 

The great thing about being a fairy or borrower or wee folk or whatever is that you can be walking along and a lot of things can be fairly similar, like moss looks a lot like grass and rocks are basically boulders but then you come to things like this, where there's a giant twig or a leaf like a crumpled up tent, or a giant acorn, or a pine needle or two and that part is all very different.  Its something I find fascinating.

Snowdrop Princess - Color

I finally added color to it! :D

Its based on this wonderful image: fav.me/d6546n3 by Kuoma-Stock: www.deviantart.com/kuoma-stock

I'm really happy with how it turned out!  ^_^

Pig Post

I haven't been very updaty lately, but here's a pig painting.  Hope you like.

Ruined Castle

Its also available as a print, (and other stuff), on Society6!

I am immensely proud of this one! :)

You see there in the lower right corner where I signed it?  I signed it with my micron pen when I finished the outline drawing last year, and I had to paint in the year with watercolors when I finished coloring it in just today.  So I do finish projects it just takes me a while.

2018?

So apparently I did a ton of art last year.  This year I'm going to create more and better artwork.  But what does that even mean?

 Well here are the salient points:

1. My Celtic Knotwork Coloring Book has been doing really well, (thanks for buying it!), so of course I'm going to keep on coming out with coloring books.  So expect to see more coloring book pages in Celtic knotwork, acanthus ornament, and other elegant decorative styles.

2. I've been saying for years that I want to write and illustrate stories in my own medieval fantasy universe.  The stories I'm currently working on are about children who make friends with some goblin children and have lots of fun adventures even though the grown ups all want to kill each other.  So I'm sorry its taking so long, but I really think I'll be able to finish a short story or two to share with you this year.  I will upload them for your reading pleasure on this blog, and deviantart.

3. Miscellaneous artwork.  As always I will put up pictures of paintings and drawings I'm working on.  These are not always connected to a particular project but they help me grow as an artist, and hopefully you enjoy them.


4. You have a happy new year!  I'm glad that we finally finished the old year.

<3

:)

Another Painting

Its amazing what you can do with just a tube of black paint and a tube of white paint.

So I've been messing around with watercolors lately, and this is my first attempt that actually turned out.  I've been playing around with watercolors lately in the vain hope that the increased evaporative quality of the water, will compete with my tendency to totally obliterate the paper.  The colors have more variety in them than I could reduplicate on purpose, being reconstituted accretions of previous experiments.