I’ve added a new painting in the Disanthus gallery, this was pretty much done in a day or so. I was actually finishing a painting I’ve been working on for a really long time (but more on that later), and I was listening to a track of the Snow Storm concerto by Sviridov called Winter Road so I got sidetracked because I love the track so much and I had to do this painting.
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Site updated with new stuff: I’ve added the Collage page to the gallery. There are ten (digital) collages, some of which you might recognize if you’ve visited our site over the years, but there are only three of these, and the rest are new.
Three in particular are a set, the Paper Angels, and they were inspired by a regency mystery I’ve been rereading.
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I got this from Dear Author‘s twitter moments ago (via Sarah Frantz): An editor from Cook’s Source magazine plagiarized an article written by Monica without her permission. When Monica wrote to the magazine she received the most baffling response from an editor who supposedly has “3 decades” worth of experience. This editor, Judith Griggs, told her that the “web is considered public domain“. Read More
And here is the full painting process of Julia, a character from Deanna Raybourn‘s wonderful Julia Grey series.
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I’ve been wanting to paint the character for a while; I’ve painted two other characters from the series (Brisbane and Valerius March), and since she is the main character it was bound to happen, right? Read More
Here are some images of the painting process of Heartbeat of Gaia. I worked on this in the summer, which may be obvious by my choice of colours. I used some texture brushes I made a while back, but never really found a chance to use them. In this case, they worked surprisingly well.
What do you think?
Just to get it out of the way :p So what’s new at Disanthus?
So, now that this is out of the way, onto the shiny stuff!
New Painting: Romance
I’ve added a new painting in the Disanthus gallery titled Romance. This one took quite a while before I managed to finish it a few days ago.
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