My first exhibition – Girls and magic

The central theme for this exhibition is girls and magic, the two things I love to paint and read about in books.

Bloody Claire and Black Lily.

Bloody Claire and Black Lily are characters some of you might have seen before since I drew this particular piece way back. They are characters I felt the urge and need to draw after reading Brandon McHugh’s Lost in Fae: A Deadly Dance. You can find the novella here.

 
Lucy.

Lucy is a character that belongs to Team Lando and is the rendered result of one of the daily sketches in my May challenge earlier this year.

Uninvited.

Uninvited is an image I created after a dream I had. I dreamt of a girl walking into a flowery mossy field feeling like she was in trance and caught a glance of this beautiful fae playing music. She wanted to leave but was just so taken by the music she kept walking in circles.

I got inspired and used this stock image by MariaAmanda on DeviantArt in combination with a photo I took of myself using the same pose wearing a cardigan.

Energy.

Is a very personal piece for me, I wanted to portray how I feel. Almost every day I have to fight (mentally) to block out other peoples negativity, it’s a battle that is never ending.

Spirit Guide.

I’ve always loved the thought of having an astral creature that guides you in the right direction. It made me think of Native Americans and their connections to spirit animals.

Crow Song.

The brother of Phoenix Tears. I wanted to create two paintings where the characters looked at each other in a Yin Yang fashion.

Phoenix Tears.

The sister of Crow Song. Together they create Crow Song and Phoenix tears.

Seeking Guidance.

A shaman asking for guidance in a time of important need. I wanted to try out a different style and new techniques here.

Influence.

Is a piece based of the lovely Miss Naily who you can find here.

She is such a bright and outgoing person with the heart in the right place, thank you for giving me this opportunity to shine, this one is for you.

Personally my favourite is Uninvited, which one do you like most out of these and why?

/Mary-Q.

Please respect me as an artist and these pieces and do not copy, claim or sell any of them. If people are interested I’ll look into how I could sell and distribute them.

Edit: This applies  for only a couple of the pieces, will come back with reasons as to why it is this way in a new post.

May project – Day #4

Daily sketch:

Lulu from Final Fantasy X.
Used a pose reference from Senshistock at DeviantArt (this one)
30 min is nearly not long enough, sorry Lulu

Please put that moogle away!!

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Mary-Q

May project – Day #1

So here is today’s 30 minutes sketch.

Took the freedom to use a Stock image from faestock at deviantArt (this image) since I love her pose and dress in that one. Be sure to check her gallery out, she has a lot of nice images.

Will probably mostly do black and white or monochrome images to begin with, my laptop died so I am back on a six year old computer and screen. And colours are not being true to my eyes at all. I hope it doesn’t look to bad on your screen.

Anyways this was fun, but now back to crunch my vector assignment!

Mary-Q