Month: May 2017

  • The Golden Bear

    The Golden Bear

    This fantasy illustration was created in watercolour and pencil crayon, and is 9 x 12″ on watercolour paper. It features a determined traveller carrying a cranky golden bear in a bag. The sun is just starting to rise and the mist clearing from the ground as they walk onward. We can see a golden bear…

  • Colour DnD Illustration – “Critical Perception Fail”

    Colour DnD Illustration – “Critical Perception Fail”

    This illustration, featuring a 5th Edition D&D cleric named Brialma, was painted in gouache on hot press watercolour paper, at about 8 x 10″ in size. The scene is taken from 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, or DnD, and was inspired by some of our in-play failures to detect or defend our characters against monsters and…

  • Drawing – Lonely Visitor

    Drawing – Lonely Visitor

    This drawing on cream paper is an exploration of the Crystal Island concept to include people. The figure creates a psychogeography of the landscape. The landscape in this drawing was taken from reference photos of French River Provincial Park, an absolutely gorgeous place in Ontario, Canada. There are delicate tall pines and windswept shrubs and bushes along the…

  • Serpentinite Crystal Island

    Serpentinite Crystal Island

    This gouache painting is about 7 x 9″ in size, on watercolour paper. It’s an exploration of the geological identity of some parts of Gros Morne National Park, in Newfoundland, Canada. The green serpentine crystals are growing from the granite and serpentinite mix of Gros Morne, specifically the Tablelands. The dark spruce and fir trees…