Tendrils

This is the other piece I have for Spectrum. It too is watercolour. I have many more ideas to go along with this theme but those will have to wait. In my imagination I see these little scenes as taking place in a tangled old Witch Garden. A secret place where lots of small and hidden things are happening.

Dreaming Wren

This one and it's companion piece above were done over the Christmas Holidays during a lull. I was really hoping to get something new done for my Spectrum entry this year and this is one of them.
I can feel myself on the return journey back to watercolour. I started with watercolour years ago but felt the commercial pressure to "paint" with opaque colour so I sort of compromised and started bringing gouache into my work, which definitely punched it up. Gradually the gouache began to take over, which on the one hand is what I wanted, but I always felt like a bit of a trader. I'm now feeling like I want to get back to watercolour and that original inspired feeling it brought me in the beginning and still brings now. But of course the gouache is always handy to make an adjustment when necessary.

Sketchbook - Giants and Trolls 2

Still messing with ideas for the giant or troll trundling through a landscape. I want to paint something big and round and heavy moving through the mist. Maybe with a nymph or faerie of some kind riding on his back or shoulder. Still thinking .....

Sketchbook - Giants and Trolls

Some more messing around with ideas for new pictures. I'm starting to feel like I want to do a big guy lumbering through a landscape again. I've gone this way before, but not lately. I love the idea of big round figures pushing past the trees, almost like hot air balloons only much heavier.
Anyway - still thinking.

Sketchbook - Faeries and Nymphs 4

More of the prep work for a couple of personal pieces. I had only a vague idea of where I was going so these drawings tend to wander a bit - but of course that's the fun of it. Here I was considering posing some figures on a floating island - a kind of Roger Dean inspired idea which I gave up on, for now anyway.

Sketchbook - Faeries and Nymphs 3

And yet more of the pencil work from the last month while preparing to execute a couple of personal pieces.

Sketchbook - Faeries and Nymphs 2

More recent pencil work. My plan was to try and get a couple of personal pieces completed over the holidays before everything started up again. These would be Spectrum entries. I prefer submitting personal work whenever possible because I feel the work is stronger and more in line with the way I'd like to advertise myself.

Sketchbook - Faeries and Nymphs

Some recent sketchbook activity - the resulting finished works to be posted shortly.
Happy New Year everyone.
Lets hope it's a busy one.

Larry

HolidayTraveller

This one is for Christmas.
Happy Holidays everyone :)

larry

Sketchbook - Faun 2

Some more doodling on the Faun piece. I'm calling it the faun piece but it actually has more to do with the Pine Faerie - still just messing with design ideas and the pose.

Sketchbook - Faun

Some pencil work for a personal piece I'm going to try and get done in the next week or so. I want to have a figure lounging in a tree - maybe a faerie - with a faun or two milling around in the back ground - so I'm just goofing around with some faun ideas. I also want to get the right pose on the faerie - more work required.

Teeney Too

Here is another version of Teeney O'Feeney for the book project I'm currently working on called Teeney O'Feeney King of the Leprechauns. I think this one may end up being the cover.

The Jack

The Jack is for Jack O' Lantern of course. Inspired I'm sure by our recent foray through the Hallowe'en season which I love so much. The leafless trees, the early sunsets, the windy nights - autumn !
This painting is small, really small. It's about 4 by 7 inches - gouache. Just a quickie for my own amusement.

A Bit More Sketchbook

Some more pencil work.

More Sketchbook

I've got something new starting up soon that I shouldn't really talk about. But here are some pages anyway - just getting ready, warming up, concepting and getting a head start. It will of course have to do with super-natural and or mythical characters - but that's all I can say.