FINISHED
The last dragon has been painted and the Prince is home safely again with all his friends. Team work and friendship has marked the success of their adventures. The fairy story ends, like all good fairy stories, with a happy…
Final stage
Only three paintings to do! Since mid April I have completed 40 paintings in watercolours! Some quite large and detailed and some just small vignettes. But each one need careful planning to get the colours right and details looking realistic…
The climax of the story – the end is nigh
The climax of the story. Prof T.W.I.T 'Twoo flies into distract Hexit, the witch, before all the brave company charge in to put a stop to her wicked ways. Luckily my deadline of mid June for everything - text and…
Starting another painting
The drawing is done and I am about to start painting. I fill in the background and plan my approach. I must have painted a million trees and rocks by now! For the trees good old Sepia, Raw Sienna and…
22 paintings done – half way
Half way! This is the first stage of one of the larger crowd scenes. If you select 'read more' the next two paintings in the process are shown. Haven't mastered a slide show yet! I start by filling in the…
16 painted 29 to go
With the deadline getting closer I am spending all my spare time in my studio - painting. I go through such a roller-coaster of emotions as I love my drawings but get very tense around the painting process - they…
Starting the paintings – last lap
I finished copying the rough drawings onto good watercolour paper and am now starting the last process before the book can go to 'Copy Press' and be prepared for printing. It's been a year at least since I painted at…
Thirty-six drawings copied – 18 to go!
I'm going a bit googled-eyed copying and tracing my rough sketches onto good watercolour paper so I had a break today and did some 'Zentangling' - very restful and totally absorbing. I used some shells as an inspiration collected from…
Transferring the drawing to good watercolour paper
It's a three stage process to transfer the much rubbed-out, much scribbled drawing onto the final suitable paper. First the transparent tracing paper is taped onto the drawing and the image is drawn with a very heavy pencil. The the…
At last final drawings done!
I finished the 50 odd drawings for the final book of my trilogy today. I need to transfer them to good watercolour paper and paint them now! I am super organised this time. For my first book my drawings were…