Elijah David

I know I'm late with this month's art post. I haven't been as actively computering this week and it's always slipped my mind when I've been active. So here we are. I did a couple of Narnia paintings centered around Shasta and joined the April Fae art challenge on Instagram, so I've been very steadily making paintings and drawings for the last two weeks. I also did some prep sketches for the next couple 100 Myths drawings, but I'm saving those for once the final versions are done, probably after April Fae is over. First up, the Shasta series. This first one is a rendition of Shasta's night among the tombs of the ancient kings of Calormene. Note the cat keeping him company. I loved the colors in that one so much I wanted to do a portrait of Shasta with the same scheme. But first, a practice sketch. Then the colorized version: Day one of April Fae was the Fool, so I drew a Faerie hunter who felt foolish for taking a bet. Day tw...

Welcome to another Watercolor Wednesday, featuring lots of drawing, a few knit/crochet projects, and some actual watercolor! (Ok, so it was done with pencils, but  it's still painting.) On with the show . . . Mirriam did an art auction in which art/crafting projects were acceptable tender (good news for this broke guy), and I won her painting of Azrael from her novel Paper Crowns  (and its sequels). [I bid on him because he looks eerily like how I imagine Merlin from Albion Academy , especially after Chapter 11.] In exchange, I created a wand holster to match the Gandalf gloves she commissioned a while back. et viola! Modified from this pattern After that, I had two scarves commissioned: one for a friend's wife's birthday in a blend of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff colors (and I forgot to take a picture before I mailed it off! :( ) and one for my pastor using the same pattern as my Newt scarf, but in different colors. Yes, my pastor is a Ravenclaw and doesn't...

Welcome to the first edition of Watercolor Wednesday at Inexhaustible Inspiration! I am excited to share my fumbling beginnings in this art form with you all. The first two paintings this month are actually postcards. Yes, you can buy watercolor postcards  to paint and send to your friends! Merry Christmas!  These were painted with  Artist's Loft watercolors  and I have to say I like the way these paints work. They have a very opaque look on the paper when painting wet on dry (that's wet paint on dry paper, as opposed to wet on wet when the paper has been dampened before the paint is applied). I'm happiest with the green I was able to mix up with the blue and yellow, though I was a bit dismayed to discover that the red I selected for some of the lights on the tree dried a pale pink. Oh well. I've warned you all about my love of puns, right? For this one, I was able to find a red that stayed red when it dried. I tried to be clever with th...