Lucifer

Enjoy my watercolor attempt at smoke and the lame Dutch pun.

Dreaming

Kind of a tribute to the amazing Agnes Cecile, whose speedpainting video inspired me to do this. 

 

 

Cambodia

My only travel-themed drawing so far. This beach has a pretty significant meaning to me.
(that are chairs btw)

Cows, cows everywhere!

First and foremost: I refuse to call cows cattle, end of discussion.

These cows are color-tryouts for a huge-ass (75 cm by 115 cm) painting for my cousin. She's a vet, hence the cows, and asked if I could paint something with livestock and lots of color for her new home. Since I rarely draw for other people, much less even as a decoration for their living rooms, I've been fretting over the color palette ever since... Anyway, I'm still working on it right now, and I might or might not post some crappy phone pictures of the progress later.

In case you're wondering, no, I haven't been drawing the same cow four times. I've drawn it once, taken a picture (because of non-working scanner) and printed it four times. And learned two things: printer ink bleeds and people like tetraptychs*.

*Tetraptych apparently isn't an English word. English artists seemingly never went above three pictures in one... picture... painting... whatever. The English are silly. If you happen to know the correct word, please tell me!
*edit: it is an English word, or at least recognized as such by Wikipedia. It just doesn't feature in my dictionary. 

The unadapted

There is a kind of moth, the peppered moth, which favorite tree is the birch. And while a birch is usually white, exhaust fumes and other black nastiness caused trees around factories to become dark. Which can be quite a problem if you're a white moth.

I thought the image of the unadapted moth against the dark bark was quite striking. 

On account of the technique behind this picture: it's not a cut out. It's also not made with masking fluid, because I don't own that (I would have loved to though while making this, would've saved me some headaches). It's just made by extreme carefulness.

Tree with saplings

It's a walking tree! With kids! And murderous razor sharp roots! And it has absolutely nothing to do with Tolkien!

Also, it might be carnivorous.

The ones that stick around

If you're going to stick around, you might see these two return quite a bit. Once, when I was a young girl still into writing and story-making, I created these. Their names are Will(varin) and Lumindash, respectively, and those names perfectly reflect their age of creation. The long ago age of ridiculously sounding fantasy names (hence the abbreviation "Will" because that's slightly more normal. Unfortunately, I couldn't make anything of Lumindash so nowadays I blame it on his weird, fictional gypsy mother). I could be long and tell you about their respective characters, but the short thing is: they're the only two of a sh*t-load of characters that really stuck. And I love them to death.

The Necromancer in Black

I love this guy. Honestly. He's a fantasy book character, the anti-hero, and I find him extremely likable. Along with his brother Horst, who definitely deserved a bigger and better part.
I'm talking about "Johannes Cabal the Necromancer" by Jonathan Howard, for all those people who haven't read the book and don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about. To everyone who loves his share of witty fantasy novels I really recommend this book.
And now about the drawing: it's Johannes Cabal, the necromancer (if that wasn't clear already), done in ink and watercolors as a substitute for ink. Because, lesson learned, one shouldn't forget one's bottles of indian ink when traveling. This results in tedious work with technical pens and lots and lots of black watercolor used.
The result is very pleasing though.

Pre-Kiwi: Two Watercolors

 Today, I'll combine two older watercolor pieces. They're both fan-art, more or less.

The left one was inspired by the song "Rain" by Mai Yamane (http://youtu.be/l9_p-nhZXLg) from the anime "Cowboy Bebop". The picture refers more to the song than to the tv show, though.

The picture on the right is based on a poem, "Life and Death of Puppet Girl" by acidlullaby (http://fav.me/d2ul0y). For those who won't follow the link and read the poem, it's about a puppet girl living near the sea, wanting to go there but not able to.
For a bigger size, click the picture.

Pre-Kiwi: Horror Duckie

Once, on holiday in Scotland, I saw something floating in the water while walking down the beach. I've never closely examined it, but I'm pretty sure it was a bird carcass, completely scooped out. This friendly bird is the product of my imagination running wild with that picture:

Pencil and watercolors on paper