I have had a few pictures that got started, were done to a point and then just stoped. I still have a couple that I love what I have done on them so far but that have sat for years unfinished. I really want to finish them but no matter how much I try they just are not ready to be done yet.
This was one of those pictures. I started it, had an idea what I was doing, loved what was done so far but just could not go any further. Finally after 3 years or more of it being partly done I dug it out and finished it. I had most of the mountains and the sky with a dragon done but I had to redo the dragon totally as it just was not fitting the quality of the mountains. By this time I had NO idea what I had originally planed for the picture and had to figure out what I wanted to do with this. "Ice Dragon; Blue Flame" is the end result and I am very pleased with it. The subtleties of the colors in the mountains and flame as well as all the colors (most you just don't notice) in the Dragon is some of my best work. 16 x 20 on Canson board done in Acrylic, watercolor colored pencil and Prisma colors.
This is a great peice, it hangs in my bathroom where i see it every day walking into and out of, i'm not sure if i have a print or the riginla but the detial in the mountains stands out reguardless. I'm supprised to know the dragon that is present in the picture is not the one originaly drawn for it.
ReplyDeleteYou have a print, done on my expensive but great art printer. Thankfully it is waterproff or I would yell at you for having it in the bathroom! The original sold last year at Balticon.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful picture and you are rightly proud of it. I wish I had a fire altar that burned in that sapphire-blue color (not a gas flame). The low sunlight on the mountaintop reminds me of some of Chesley Bonestell's planetscapes.
ReplyDeleteThe mountains in the background almost look real!
ReplyDeletewell it.s in the downstairs bathroom so theres no worrie of it getting wet. I wouldnever risk something you gave me like that. never.
ReplyDeleteThis piece would just something I would expect to appear on a cover of a D&D book. Or one one of Anne McCafrey's books. Very very inspiring.
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