Chinese Zodiac - Year of the Rabbit painting

This year I wanted to paint a companion piece to the previous year's Chinese Zodiac Tiger painting. The tiger painting was and ACEO, but that size can be pretty confining. This painting is 6x8 inches in watercolor, and inked with acrylic ink and a tiny paintbrush instead of a pen.

In China and Japan rabbits are associated with the moon. The moon is said to have a rabbit on it instead of the "man in the moon". I can't see it myself so I'll just take their word for it! Bunnies are definitely cuter.

The original painting is available on Etsy (detail pics at the link).

Crazy Kitty Time

Does your cat zoom around the house at midnight chasing invisible things, leap in the air and chase her tail? It's Crazy Kitty Time, AKA The Midnight Crazies!

Perhaps the fairies are chasing them, but that's just my theory.

Fine Art Prints of Crazy Kitty Time are available in several sizes.

Raven's Treasure

Raven's Treasure
8x10 watercolor and acrylic painting

Across the sky
fly ravens black,
with treasure gold.
Such great power
to behold.




Click for prints!

Limited edition prints of Summer Sun and Blossoming Spring are now available as well.

Red panda ACEO steps

1. I inked the sketch in black and then painted in most of the panda's colors. The paper is taped down around the edges with artist tape so it doesn't wrinkle. I went over the background with a light greenish yellow. Normally I'd paint the background first so this is a bit backwards.



2. Roughly filled in some darker areas between the leaves.



3. Worked more on darker leaves in the background to give an impression or a full forest behind the panda and started on the tree limb. I wanted the foreground leaves to stand out more so the area around them needs to be darker.



4. Almost finished here. The tree limb requires many layers of color and final detailed lines for 3d bark. Foreground leaves are are painted and details added for leaf veins.



And the finished painting:



The original painting is for sale on etsy.

New paintings - Sinovia, Tree Swallow, Foxfire, Red Panda, Celtic Ferret

New Originals for sale:



"Sinovia"
8x10 inch watercolor painting of
an elegant gothic vampire sitting on a throne. I've painted her
before, but always wanted to do a better version. I think this
painting is much improved and shows her personality.
The original is for auction on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360276684274




Tree Swallow ACEO
2.5x3.5 inch watercolor painting
The original is for sale on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/49664845/original-painting-aceo-tree-swallow-with

New Prints available:

- Foxfire




Emerald Dragon



Gathering Poppies



Moon Mermaid



Red Panda in the Treetops



Celtic Ferret

Chinese new year - year of the tiger ACEO art

Year of the Tiger - SOLD
2.5x3.5 inches
Watercolor



Tiger Sun - for sale on Ebay SOLD
2.5x3.5 inches
Watercolor & Acrylic

Midnight Magic

This painting started as a sketch way back in 2006. The idea stayed pretty much the same, with the addition of with some better perspective knowledge. And of course, she resembles my own cat.



Midnight Magic
medium: Watercolor and acrylic

Prints will most likely be available after the new year.

ACEOs, Dancer + WIP

Dancer
5.5x10 inch watercolor and acrylic painting
The original is for sale here: http://www.meredithdillman.com/catalog.php?item=339



People were asking that I post more works in progress. I only saved one one scan from when I was painting it. You can see the difference between that and the ink I posted originally.



And, the ACEOs below are already sold.

Slavic Girl # 2 was commissioned


Autumn Tea Time

3 aceo paintings

These are all up for sale on Etsy:
Slavic Girl - Red Panda - Fae girl (interrupted)

Red Panda

• Original for sale on Etsy

One small problem with ending up known as a "fairy artist" is that people keep asking me to paint more fairies, when sometimes all I really want to do is draw cute pandas. Here's the first one. There may be more.

New paintings

I'm a great fan (addict) of tea and I recently designed this tea label design for Blue Raven Tea - blueraventea.com.


All of these were commissions, but for the last two I did with very little direction and as a result they are more me than some other paintings. I don't often get to paint men, but when I do I enjoy it. The armor was inspired by Burne-Jones's designs.

The Moonlight Spinner is available as a print

In mystic swirls of the night
her lamp suspended on gossamer strings
she captures starlight,
moonmoth, and fyreflye's wings
pearls of the moon entwined in her webs



Prepared (prints will be available soon)



Upcoming conventions and art shows:
Kakkoi Con - Minneapolis MN, August 1-3 *attending*
Anime Iowa - August 15-17
Dragon Con - Atlanta GA Aug 29-Sept 1

On another note, I found a good blog for anyone who loves the Pre-Raphaelites: The Beautiful Necessity