One Samhuinn Fire Festival, plus a smorgasbord of collages and narwhals later… and we’re almost concluded another volume of work :-D
Getting some inspiration from the latest installation by Tai Shani over at Jupiter Artland!
(2B Pencil on 170mm x 110mm paper) Nudes are common in art, but I've developed a background with these Spelldancers:
They're witches of The Crimson Moon Coven and exist on an alternate Earth where an "Apocalypse Of Man" took place. A terrible war which nearly wiped-out all life on the planet. From the ashes rose the Crimson Moon Coven who directed a miraculous revival of humanity under a benign matriarchal system. In the space of a single generation, they'd pretty much fixed most things and, in the centuries which followed, their Earth became more peaceful and prosperous than it's ever been, with the men resigned to the fact that their thousands of years of tenure hadn't really worked-out and that the women were actually doing a much better job, if they were being honest. They didn't even mind that, over the space of time, their numbers were reduced to 35% of the population. A much more manageable level, with anything above that seen as dangerous.
Men may protest, at first, but after a while they do get used to sitting on comfy cushions!
The Crimson Moon Coven, with their unique abilities to harness the forces of the universe, then looked into our own reality, didn't like what they saw, and decided to do something about it. With the spell-dance (and my help) they're finding a way through to gain influence in our world to sort things out.
At least, that's what they've told me....
“If someone says ‘Give me one word of advice,’ I say ‘be fearless.’ And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else.” - Sir Patrick Stewart (1940 - 2026).
Caroline lost her glasses somewhere in the house. Honestly, I really struggled with drawing them—they just didn't look right.
Ada took Tommy's hat off because I wanted to draw his hair.
Caroline wears her wedding ring on her right hand like her mom.
There’s one more page to go.
A little explanation: in my native language, there's a separate word for gray hair. So I was playing with words a little here, hinting at his morality and also his hair color (she said he is "grey" rather than "gray-haired").
“I'm the only guy I know who died in a f---ing Muppet Movie." - Billy Connolly.
New brush pens and washi tape from Edinburgh Art Shop fuelled something a bit different… fan art of The Big Yin himself!
