[original artwork] "Seven Colours of Light", OCs, rated G
Title: "Seven Colours of Light" ("Fairytale #1")
by lineae
Characters: two unnamed OCs (OMC, OFC)
Rating: G
Disclaimer: (Not so) deep down in my heart I'm still a kid. A colour-starved kid. A colour-starved kid with a vivid imagination and a well-stocked watercolour paint box. ;)
The following painting might blind you - proceed at your own risk. You've been warned.
"The Seven Colours Of Light"
Indian ink and watercolours on 300g white paper
A detail shot of the artwork above. Cropped to show a detail exactly 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 in) in size, so you get an idea of the scale of things. :)
Artist's blurb: If I had to pinpoint the moment this idea first started, the answer would probably be, "years ago".
When I was about 10 or 11, I had a fairytale book about a handsome goldenhaired prince who got shipwrecked onto a foreign shore and fell in love with the darkhaired beautiful princess who came to his rescue. Her father - like all fairytale fathers - gave him seven tasks to complete before he would allow the prince to marry his daughter. To cut a long story (with beautiful illustrations!) short, the prince had to find seven flowers in the seven colours of the rainbow and plant them in a garden for his beloved. Those adventures to find the flowers (and all the plots to prevent him from doing so) involved magic shoes, a flying horse, a few near-misses and some elaborate scheming on the part of the princess - but of course in the end they lived happily ever after in their brightly coloured garden...
I've drawn princesses almost as soon as I could hold a pencil. There's hardly a man in all those folders where my early works are stored, and the few you can find look like women without breasts and badly-styled moustaches. *sigh* Yeah. The first time I really had to draw males was when I got into the LotR m/m fandom - and those Elves weren't all that manly when I started.
I've gotten better, though. Must have been all the practice I got with the Elves, and now the Navyboys... so much so, in fact, that I probably haven't drawn a woman in months before this. Odd how that got completely turned around, isn't it?
Either way, after dozens of RN sketches, drawings and watercolour paintings, I realized that not only was I sadly neglecting female characters, but I was almost exclusively using the blues and browns in my watercolour box. The Royal Navy is an interesting sandbox to play in, but it doesn't exactly give you much opportunity to use bright yellows, or reds, or those stunning purples I have. If I like Lt. Gillette so much, it's partly because - when he goes wig-less - he gives me the excuse to at least use the bright copper and russet tones among my browns...
And I was literally starved for colour. I wanted to dip my brush into the dishes of those colours and see them sparkle on the white paper. And so, I finally did.
The two characters you see here have a life of their own, they've popped up before, they will again some day - and who knows if they'll ever decide to sit down and tell me their story. However, they provide me with a delicious excuse to play with period style clothing, with folds of fabric, beads, pearls, jewellery and other fancy stuff ~ and that's exactly the purpose this painting had to serve. I had fun designing it, I had a wonderful afternoon inking out all the details, and the marvelous and very relaxing evening spent painting with all those bright colours made me very happy.
So, if this manages to brighten up your day as it did mine, then it has more than served its purpose, and that, too, makes me happy! Enjoy!
And look, I even made a colour bar! My first! Watch me becoming more and more silly with age...
Yours,
~Eve
by lineae
Characters: two unnamed OCs (OMC, OFC)
Rating: G
Disclaimer: (Not so) deep down in my heart I'm still a kid. A colour-starved kid. A colour-starved kid with a vivid imagination and a well-stocked watercolour paint box. ;)
The following painting might blind you - proceed at your own risk. You've been warned.
"The Seven Colours Of Light"
Indian ink and watercolours on 300g white paper
A detail shot of the artwork above. Cropped to show a detail exactly 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 in) in size, so you get an idea of the scale of things. :)
Artist's blurb: If I had to pinpoint the moment this idea first started, the answer would probably be, "years ago".
When I was about 10 or 11, I had a fairytale book about a handsome goldenhaired prince who got shipwrecked onto a foreign shore and fell in love with the darkhaired beautiful princess who came to his rescue. Her father - like all fairytale fathers - gave him seven tasks to complete before he would allow the prince to marry his daughter. To cut a long story (with beautiful illustrations!) short, the prince had to find seven flowers in the seven colours of the rainbow and plant them in a garden for his beloved. Those adventures to find the flowers (and all the plots to prevent him from doing so) involved magic shoes, a flying horse, a few near-misses and some elaborate scheming on the part of the princess - but of course in the end they lived happily ever after in their brightly coloured garden...
I've drawn princesses almost as soon as I could hold a pencil. There's hardly a man in all those folders where my early works are stored, and the few you can find look like women without breasts and badly-styled moustaches. *sigh* Yeah. The first time I really had to draw males was when I got into the LotR m/m fandom - and those Elves weren't all that manly when I started.
I've gotten better, though. Must have been all the practice I got with the Elves, and now the Navyboys... so much so, in fact, that I probably haven't drawn a woman in months before this. Odd how that got completely turned around, isn't it?
Either way, after dozens of RN sketches, drawings and watercolour paintings, I realized that not only was I sadly neglecting female characters, but I was almost exclusively using the blues and browns in my watercolour box. The Royal Navy is an interesting sandbox to play in, but it doesn't exactly give you much opportunity to use bright yellows, or reds, or those stunning purples I have. If I like Lt. Gillette so much, it's partly because - when he goes wig-less - he gives me the excuse to at least use the bright copper and russet tones among my browns...
And I was literally starved for colour. I wanted to dip my brush into the dishes of those colours and see them sparkle on the white paper. And so, I finally did.
The two characters you see here have a life of their own, they've popped up before, they will again some day - and who knows if they'll ever decide to sit down and tell me their story. However, they provide me with a delicious excuse to play with period style clothing, with folds of fabric, beads, pearls, jewellery and other fancy stuff ~ and that's exactly the purpose this painting had to serve. I had fun designing it, I had a wonderful afternoon inking out all the details, and the marvelous and very relaxing evening spent painting with all those bright colours made me very happy.
So, if this manages to brighten up your day as it did mine, then it has more than served its purpose, and that, too, makes me happy! Enjoy!
And look, I even made a colour bar! My first! Watch me becoming more and more silly with age...
Yours,
~Eve