New Art – Illustrations, a small painting, teasers in October

A round-up of what I’ve been drawing and painting lately.

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New illustrations for An Alchemy of Dragons.

I decided to take pity on you all for once and split my longer chapters into two parts for easier reading on teensy-beensy little phone screens. Of course, each chapter still needs at least two illustrations, so that means more art!

Chapter 4 has been split into Chapters 4 and 5, with two new images. You can see these in the novel text, here, and get a close-up look in the Artworks Gallery, under Illustration, here.

Chapter 3 is also going to get split. I need to do one new image for that. I’ll probably default to Ch. 3, Pts 1 and 2, rather than edit all the other page titles after it.

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A Small Botanical Painting

Dog roses from my garden, pastel on paper.

I actually don’t work well with pastels in the traditional way, as a dry medium. I apply them wet, like watercolor paints. It gives me an interesting matte finish, like a more ethereal gouache. I intend to write about my process in the near future.

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Teasers

Coming Next: The first illustration for Chapter 6 of Alchemy. Here’s a sneak peak of the sketch.

Still Inside My Head: October is the month for lunar art, don’t you think?

I’m thinking collage for this one.

Why, yes, I do take photos of the moon with a rubbish old point-and-click camera with no filters or proper settings, from my studio window in the middle of the night. Doesn’t everyone?