fairy tale

Graphite drawing in a Moleskine notebook - illustration for Grimm's fairy tale. I'm posting both the raw graphite version and the one I painted in Photoshop b/c I never know which I end up liking better!

Colorful illustration of Cochem Castle located in Germany

An illustration for a Grimm's Fairy Tale in a Moleskine notebook. This one is for a kind of obscure story called The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse. Just graphite.

Things I learned from fairy tales. Being first is not always good. Being second is worse. And so, slow down and enjoy not being the fastest! https://www.instagram.com/p/COa3tsAhAWf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Advice learned from fairy tales. Size matters. https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5khqshrVI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerod Denmark

A fantasy little rounded house in the forest. It could be a part of some fairy tale. Who lives there?

Advice from fairy tales. Always open all the doors. (Results may vary). https://www.instagram.com/p/CNkUMKAhHzs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Whimsical. Fairy tale. Alter ego. Mixed media. Used real rose petals for the background. I’m not super happy with it but I’m still getting used to mixed media. I draw and paint the girl separately and then superimpose with modge podge.

Trying out tattoo designs

Red and Big Bad. My take on the fairy tale

Fairy-tales lie. This frog didn't turn into a prince. Or a princess. At least the snack was nice.

procreate mish mash of 2 previous drawings for the seven ravens fairy tale

Things I learned from fairy tales. You are indeed what you eat. https://www.instagram.com/p/COdBxFLhO1s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Advice from fairy tales. Hedgehogs make good messengers. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNp3zYthWOD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

New one shadowed & ready for color. Drawn with a Pilot Custom 823 FA (favorite pen at the moment) with Noodlers 41 Brown on Strathmore Mixed Media paper.

Colorful Pena Palace, Castle in Sintra Portugal.

Colorful White Castle Palthetoren in Sprengenberg

Colorful Purple Castle in Budapest

Eltz Castle, Wierschem, Germany. Photo reference by: Jonny Caspari

"She stopped to speak to him, altering her mind, and went on her way." Trying to learn more about Kay Nielsen's style. He illustrated folk and fairy tales in the early 1900s for Grimm and Disney and others. I love his dark/moody style with everything so flowy, elongated, elegant, and tragic. And his amazing compositions.

Acrylic on paper, this small work is one of a bunch for a children's picture book.

THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN WITH FIVE COWS From Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen. One morning a little old woman got up and went to the field containing her five cows. She took from the earth a herb with five sprouts and, without breaking either root or branch, carried it home and wrapped it in a blanket and placed it on her pillow. Then she went out again and sat down to milk her cows. Suddenly she heard tambourine bells jingle and scissors fall, on account of which noise she upset the milk. Having run home and looked, she found that the plant was uninjured. Again she issued forth to milk the cows, and again thought she heard the tambourine bells jingle and scissors fall, and once more she spilled her milk. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnCvkZpxW0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Little red riding hood distracts the wolf with a tennis ball