"Self Portrait 2011", 5 x 8 1/2, Acrylic on Canson board. Picture 12.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Changes
I have updated my profile "photo". It is a new self portrait I just finished. I have changed my look a bit, accidentally recently. I found out that by combing my beard forward, it curls..which I like. I have cut my own hair for many years and this time I had an accident. The clippers I used did not work as they should and I lost allot more than planned, so it became very short! The new self portrait is of course NOT very realistic, it is stylised as is all my art. I wish I looked like this more and less like I really do. But, be as it may, I now have short hair except for the tail I kept (and combed forward for the portrait. The shield is my SCA Arms.
"Self Portrait 2011", 5 x 8 1/2, Acrylic on Canson board. Picture 12.
"Self Portrait 2011", 5 x 8 1/2, Acrylic on Canson board. Picture 12.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Another Day Another Fight Picture
Here is the latest in my series of commissions featuring barefist/cage fighting. This is the greyscale prelim for the next picture. "Football Fight", 8 1/2 x 11, acrylic on Canson board. Finished full color version soon.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Merboy Muse Treat
It took a bit longer than planned and I could keep working on it, but I think it is done. Everyone knows about the Little Mermaid well, this is her cuter little brother! Little Merboy, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2, Acrylic, watercolor colored pencil and a tiny bit of Prisma Color on Canson board. Original and prints for sale. Picture 11.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
No Art
Just letting anyone waiting know why I have not posted any art in the past couple days. I was sick for 2 days and had to redo a sketch because it did not please the person commissioning the art. New sketch is done and I am working on a "muse treat" as well, so I hope to post something new tomorrow or Wednesday.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Illustrating Music
My husband has written and sung a song cycle called "Cardunne", unfortunately the only copies we have recorded are distorted so I can't post them. But the music and song story is great, and I did this picture based on the song below as a Christmas gift for him back in the late 80's.
Burning Veil
by Don Hooper
Laying down a book, he sighs
And the memories stir behind his eyes
With the fall of darkness on the land
And he pauses there to touch my hand
As he leaves to walk within the darkness again
Burning Veil
Shimmering on the edge I look beyond
And Burning Veil
Sears my skin with fire that knows no light
A shadow in the night
Far away the song begins to stir
On the eve of darkness standing there
With a pause, a beat, a straining cry
In the wind your glowing hair will fly
And your eyes will call me ghostly with their light
Far away within a burning keep
With the flames about your face you leap
"Come away with me in passion's hold
Through the veil that burns your body cold
To my arms that glisten, circle you in their fold"
Burning Veil
Shimmering on the edge I look beyond
And Burning Veil
Sears my skin with fire that knows no light
A shadow in the night
To the wind I run upon a path
By the mountains echoing in her laugh
Round the cliff a tower far beyond
And a lady sings her chanting song
To a blade that pierces deep within my side
To the sky I search through blazing stars
For a hint of coolness in the air
For the pain that brings the Burning Veil
From the past it reaches through these walls
Of a man that cries his sorrow to all
Here the wind shrieks its frightening call
And I stop before a damning fall
Gaze into the blackness beyond
Step back, step back
Return, return
Burning Veil
by Don Hooper
Laying down a book, he sighs
And the memories stir behind his eyes
With the fall of darkness on the land
And he pauses there to touch my hand
As he leaves to walk within the darkness again
Burning Veil
Shimmering on the edge I look beyond
And Burning Veil
Sears my skin with fire that knows no light
A shadow in the night
Far away the song begins to stir
On the eve of darkness standing there
With a pause, a beat, a straining cry
In the wind your glowing hair will fly
And your eyes will call me ghostly with their light
Far away within a burning keep
With the flames about your face you leap
"Come away with me in passion's hold
Through the veil that burns your body cold
To my arms that glisten, circle you in their fold"
Burning Veil
Shimmering on the edge I look beyond
And Burning Veil
Sears my skin with fire that knows no light
A shadow in the night
To the wind I run upon a path
By the mountains echoing in her laugh
Round the cliff a tower far beyond
And a lady sings her chanting song
To a blade that pierces deep within my side
To the sky I search through blazing stars
For a hint of coolness in the air
For the pain that brings the Burning Veil
From the past it reaches through these walls
Of a man that cries his sorrow to all
Here the wind shrieks its frightening call
And I stop before a damning fall
Gaze into the blackness beyond
Step back, step back
Return, return
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Celtic God
(Cross posted from my FurAfinity account. I hope this is not already on the Weble someplace).
I tried to do a play on words and capture the two natures of the God Hern. He is both the hunter and the hunted so the wolf and the stag both represent him. Being in the SCA (http://www.sca.org/) I have done many "period" based pictures and have studies things like the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospel. Both have amazing, intricate Celtic knot work and designs. I tried to make the knotwork look like it was metal jewelry on this. Overall I was pleased with the outcome. This was about 20 x 30 on Canson board in Acrylics and watercolor colored pencil. Prints available.
I tried to do a play on words and capture the two natures of the God Hern. He is both the hunter and the hunted so the wolf and the stag both represent him. Being in the SCA (http://www.sca.org/) I have done many "period" based pictures and have studies things like the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospel. Both have amazing, intricate Celtic knot work and designs. I tried to make the knotwork look like it was metal jewelry on this. Overall I was pleased with the outcome. This was about 20 x 30 on Canson board in Acrylics and watercolor colored pencil. Prints available.
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