I will just be over here painting Princess Serenity holding the silver crystal in variations on this pose until the end of time. Although it's a simple and iconic pose, I like the potential of little variations really change the mood, from sorrow to reassurance to happiness to raw power.
(Plus I get to draw those ponytails doing hair flippies, and boy howdy is that fun!)
This year's illustrated holiday postcard to friends and family! It's bananas that this is the 20th year in a row I've continued this tradition! 馃巹鉀勶笍馃摤 also my friends joked that I made a Dune themed card and that the Spice must flow.
Aina Stenberg (6. okt., 1885 - 1975) was a Swedish artist, who trained at the Stockholm Academy in the first decade of the 20th century. She mainly illustrated book and calendars and made thousands of postcards - not your typical museum art. However, G枚teborgs Konstmuseum owns this fun piece:
Kaffedrickande Damer, no year - gouache and ink on paper
I received 3 postcards to art up for a show at Brassworks Gallery in Dec, but wasn鈥檛 feeling like simply drawing. Sometimes the urge hits to just try something totally off the wall and you gotta answer the call.
so I slathered on a layer of varnish, adhered paper with greyscale photographic backgrounds on them (which made the printer ink bleed and result in neat color effects), covered it all in epoxy resin, threw ink on the resin before it dried, and waited.
today I painted atop the dried epoxy, and once the paint is dry it鈥檒l get a second coat of resin