Castles

I have a couple of older works to share today, although I plan to post some new art this week.

The first piece is a watercolor created for the The Practical Guide to Fairies. The Grig watercolor I posted last month appeared in the same book. This picture depicts a small, underwater sandcastle, a place where small aquatic faerie folk dwell.

The second piece is a pencil drawing of a castle I did a few years ago for a Swedish company called Riotminds.

For those interested in such details: the watercolor was painted on Arches hot press watercolor paper and the pencil drawing was simply drawn with an ebony pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

Grig

This lively little fellow is a fairy creature called a Grig. He was painted (in watercolor) for a book titled The Practical Guide to Fairies and as you can see, he has some insect-like characteristics. Grig is a real word, used to describe a lively person. However, it is also occasionally used to describe a cricket or grasshopper so it's not hard to see how those meanings translated into this character.

Dragon Anatomy

Here's something a little different. It's a piece I did a few years ago for a book titled The Practical Guide to Dragons. It's a watercolor which reveals that dragons, like us, are full of icky-but-interesting interior organs. This is the first and only time I've painted a liver!

Researching this piece was an interesting experience and it was fun to work out just which organs went where and how they all fit together inside the dragon.