The Sun Prince *finished* and new toy :)

I finished him! I'm really happy with how he turned out for the most part, though I do wish I'd noticed before I started painting that he's leaning slightly to the left. Oh well. :)




He is a new version of an older painting done in 2004. You can see in the side by side view how much I've improved since then.



I also got a cute little netbook computer a couple days ago. I still have to use my main computer for my prints and website stuff... basically anything requiring big programs like Photoshop or Dreamweaver. But this is great for the internet and I can take it anywhere. I love it! I got the Asus Eee 1000HE and it's a really great price. The touchpad and the compact keyboard take some getting used to though. :)

I'm waiting to see a copy of my artbook, and if everything looks right, I'm going to start taking pre-orders for them very soon!! Also, I finished the commissioned painting I was working on too. It was of a gothic sphinx. You can view it on my website HERE. I warn that there is some mild nudity in case you're offended by that.

Store sale and more!!

I'm having a sale in my ebay store this week! 20% off all prints and jewelry! Check it out HERE

I currently have a few things in the works. I'm working on two paintings, one of which you got a peak of in my last post. The other is a commission. Hopefully, I will have those finished paintings to share very soon. I'm also working on... an art book!! It is really coming along well and I'm nearly finished with it. I have the entire main part of the book done. I just have to do the beginning intro pages and the index and the cover and it will be ready. I'll have more information about that coming up! :)

What I'm working on...

Here's a preview of what I'm working on now. I'm going to have to take a break to finish up a commission, but I'll get right back to it once that's done. :)

The Storms Poster!!

I've made a poster of my storms series! It is available in my Zazzle shop!

The Storms Series Poster by elvenstarart
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I bought one myself to see how they look, and it looks great. Below is a picture. Sorry for it being a bit dark.

I'm still working on my "Rose Garden" painting, but I should be done soon. I'm at least half way done! :)

Rose Garden WIP

Here is a little preview of the painting I'm working on. I wasn't entirely sure what I was going to do with it at first, that's why the roses aren't in the sketch. I got the inspiration for those after I transferred the sketch and then drew them in. I had originally had more of a golden color scheme in mind, but since I also want her to be a bit gothy, I wasn't entirely sure how to make that work with the golden colors I had in mind. So I'll save that color scheme for another time. I also thought about making it a sort of sunset/blues color scheme, but decided against it since I've done a lot of blue colors lately. Now I've decided on some more rosy colors, but a bit muted. I like them so far. :)

The Storms: Tornado

Here is the last in the series. I hope that everyone has enjoyed them. This is my favorite of the three, I think. I was going for that unstable green color, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. :)

I feel very productive since I got each in this series done one after the other. I'm usually kind of bad at series since I get distracted by other ideas. It really helped to sketch all these out first before painting them!

Watercolor and white goauche. 9 x 12"

Detail view below:


Here's all three of them together:

The Storms: Lightning

*Edit* I went back and fixed some things the best I could, so ignore the paragraph below. :)

I finished the next one! This lightning one gave me trouble right from the beginning with the sketch. I like how it turned out, and it looks a LOT better in person than on the computer, but I think that I like the rain one better. There are still some issues with this one that bother me. I'm tempted to go back and tweak a couple of things. I may do that still...

Anyway, she's done in Watercolor and white goauche. 9 x 12"

Detail view below: