I spent this year’s July 4th holiday in Vermont, like I did in the past 10 years.
The moment I get to Vermont I feel like I start regenerating. The nature and the green, the birds and the deers, everything is enchanting.
This year I decided to put to good use a zoom lens for my Canon EOS that my husband gave to me as a gift years ago.
I wanted to share this time lapse video that I shot of my gouache painting process.
I have painted Ludo, a character from the 1986 movie Labyrinth. The production design for the movie was by one of my favorite artists ever, Brian Froud.
One of my favorite illustration artists is Alan Lee.
I discovered his work in my teens, when a (boy)friend showed me the book ‘Faeries’, which Alan Lee illustrated along with another one of my favorite artists, Brian Froud.
At first I was constantly going back to Froud’s work, intrigued by his depiction of pixies, fairies and goblins. In time, though, Alan Lee’s work grew on me.
Read moreI love researching the work of illustration artists. I find it exciting to discover previously unknown artists and to find out about the art techniques that they used, the approach to composition, the influences that inspired them and so on.
Just recently I have discovered the work of German Illustrator Hermann Vogel (16 October 1854 – 22 February 1921).
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