An actual painting with real paint!

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I got all inspired to paint last weekend, but I kept being put off by the fact that I paint so rarely that I keep making rookie mistakes (man do I love the "undo" in digital art), so decided to do something so self indulgent and fun that I'd enjoy painting it even if it went horribly wrong.

Thus, a combination of pretty much everything I like to draw when I'm feeling self indulgent: floating islands in the sky, clouds, trees, books, dragons/stuff with wings, windows/mirrors, and a blatant self insert character:


Inspired very much by the zepellin-heavy Dr Who episode "The Rise of the Cybermen" I saw just before it. (The painting is set inside a passenger carrier attached to a dragon)

It really was fun, and went better than my last painting (about 6 years ago, not counting clay scultpures) But by GOD did I miss the ability to undo. And layers! Guh! I spent pretty much the whole time wanting to repaint the sky but being unable too cos there was other stuff painted over it. And then the cat jumped on the painting while it was still wet! *has just finished cleaning up the little pawprints off the wooden floorboards*

Comments

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

Flying dinosaur, cute!

Oddly I tried real art today as well. It has been so long that I can't find my stamps!

[alias_sqbr]

Heh, yeah, I did jewelry making yesterday for the first time in ages and was all "Argh! Where is everything?" and got by with the wrong components before finding what I needed in an unexpected place :)

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Its very pretty. (I like dragons)

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks! I like dragons too :)

[miss-kittylix.livejournal.com]

I Love that painting. It's really lovely, the type of thing I like. You have teh skillz.

[alias_sqbr]

Aww, thanks :)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

What is she reading, I wonder...I always have an intense curiosity about what people are reading. I was reading Dragonlord over someone's shoulder in the bus once...never saw the title and this was waaaaaaaaaaaay before the internet was everywhere...but tracked it down finally because I was taken with the conversation the main character was having with the dragon.

I like the way you've done the clouds, particularly. Paint and I don't get on much.

[alias_sqbr]

You know, I hadn't really thought about what she's reading. "How to control dragons" perhaps :)

Myself I have a very on-and-off relationship with ink. At least with paint you can paint over things again, to some extent.

[tevriel.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome.

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks!

[elaran.livejournal.com]

ooooh that's so pretty! :D

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

The clouds are nicely done!

Man, a dragon-zeppelin would be awesome.

[alias_sqbr]

As nico_wolfwood pointd out, it would be very bumpy.

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool! Worked out really well!

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks!