I recently came across this poem by Robert Louis Stevenson and have been thinking about it ever since. The little boy is the son of a family friend.
I wanted to make a CHristmas card this year and when I went through past photo references, I knew that this little boy would be a perfect Christmas elf! The gold paint on the border is metalic and reflective which gave the whole project a happy jester feel.
This was a comission recently completed for a customer as a gift for his father. He asked that follow a specific format and that i depict him as a fire mage and his father as a wizard. It was interesting to paint a picture according to a scene that he saw very clearly in his head. It was a good practice in portraiture as well as in depicting something other then what I myself had in mind.
I was practicing a few techniques when my Aunt asked if I had anything that might look good in her office. Well, how about a waterscape? I added a quote from Emily Dickinson, one of my favorite poets.
The third in the Daycare series! This little girl was also one of the kids from the daycare. When I brought in the painting she very casually pointed out that of course it was her in the painting since it had her castle. I didnt realize before hand that she had a castle in her room at home.
