Inspired by the work of George Petty and WWII nose art, I’m experimenting with painting directly on to metal. The painting is on a new-made-to-look-old tin sign that I sanded and distressed myself.
Those of you with a keen eye and a knowledge of popular video games might be able to guess what she is promoting.
I will have the finished painting for sale at Supanova Melbourne next month.
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I had the pleasure of designing 2 character concepts for the games release. This my finished concept for the Gentlefolk Highwaywoman and final miniature sculpt by Seb of Demented Games.
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Lara Croft – Art Nouveau style poster based on the Inktober sketch I did last year. I will have this for sale as prints at my upcoming conventions.
Happy Women’s Day! Everyday!
Month of Love: Fantasy
“Fern Heart”
“The Oldest of all, the Queen of the Forest hid her heart
Under lock and blade, By frond and key”
From a very rough thumbnail this painting, along with her story developed very quickly. I found inking the tiny plant details very soothing.
The two sides represent his different performance styles and the surrounding elements inspired by traditional playing card motifs mixed with symbols based on his music.
Month of Love Challenge : Weapons
“Love is war: choose your Weapon.”
Eros, the winged Greek god of love, desire, embodies sexual power. Armed with golden bow and arrows he interferes with the lives of gods and mortals.
The finished plush is roughly 8 inches long (not including tail) and stands 12 inches tall including her horn. She is made from soft fleece with felt appliqué detail for the shooting star, eyes and mouth. The design also includes 3D eyelashes made from foam and plasticard re-enforced hooves.
The story behind it is that the client gave a card to her friend about ten years ago that she has treasured with a cartoon of a potato and biscuit holding hands and the words “Friends: The Biscuit would only dare be just a biscuit when it is with it’s true friend the Potato”
The plush pair were ordered as a gift inspired by this card.
Approx 15cm tall plushies made of soft fleece with black plastic safety eyes.
Machine sewn with hand stitched details – felt sugar pieces and knotted potato ‘eyes”.
Filled with cuddly polyfil and plastic pellets for weight and balance.
Their hands are sewn together so they will never be separated 🙂
He is made from soft grey, black and dark red fleece with matching red felt appliqué and embroidery details.
The squeezable fat belly is weighted with plastic pellets and the wings are wired to be poseable.
The left horn has 4 black metal hoop earrings – shown in the last image.
The plush ended up being slightly larger then I planned – approx. 14 inches nose to tail (36cm)
Joining in the “Month of Love” February weekly art challenges this year – Just scraping in to this weeks challenge “Heroes, Protagonists and Idols”.
To Hayao Miyazaki – one of my real life heros.
For my grandfather who I watched Princess Mononoke with for the 1st time as a child. He pretended not to be interested but sat and watched the whole thing.
And San as a great hero herself – strong, protective and loving.