Tuesday, March 12, 2013

In Progress: Fairies

I recently started getting my stuff together, and I'm ready to start working on a whole new portfolio.

Here are my goals...
  • Illustrate three to four pages each from four stories
  • Illustrate several spreads and several single pages, including text
  • Limit theme to little hidden folk and fairy tales

My first project is a spread from the tale, "The Ivory Cups", which appears in the book The Hidden Folk by Lise Lunge-Larsen.

I started by selecting a good section of the story to illustrate. Next, I quickly sketched out a few thumbnails.


Then I did some practice with grass, oak leaves, mushrooms and fairies! So much fun...



Finally, I moved on to a full size sketch and transferred it to watercolor paper using a light box, scanned it in and added text.




I am so excited to start painting this scene! So here we go again, adventure waiting ahead...