Acrylic on textured board.I first came across the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green. I later discovered that it came from an ancient poem, and information about this, together with a summary of the story, can be found at Wikipedia .The New Year celebrations at the court of King Arthur at Camelot are interrupted by a giant Green Knight armed with an axe, who enters the hall and asks for someone to strike him once with his axe, on condition that the Green Knight shall return the blow one year and a day later.
The Time Machine, by H G Wells 1895.The scientist, inventor and time traveller has materialised in his machine on Earth in the year 802,701 AD. High above he observes the "sphinx-like structures" of the Morlocks. The Morlocks are ape-like troglodytes that live in the darkness underground and only surface at night. The traveller will come face to face with the Morlocks, soon.
From Job 2:7. Job was stricken with sores and boils from his head to his feet at the hand of Satan.I wanted to portray this without literally covering him in sores and allowing the viewer to feel his emotion and the predicament that he was in.I imagine the flies would be attracted to open wounds and sores along with the stench of manure.This is a pencil drawing painted in photoshop. Reference for the flies-google images. Flies were drawn on paper and scanned.Please enjoy my painting.Good luck to all other artists!
Outside, the wind screamed and gobbeled -- old wives cringed in their beds and slept poorly and told their husbands that Rhiannon, the Dark Witch of the Coos, was riding her hateful broom this night, and wicked work was afoot. The Dark Tower
3rd degree Guild Navigators from the best selling Sci-Fi novel Dune, written by Frank Herbert. Originally they were humans who volunteered to join the Spacing Guild and then eventually mutated through the consumption of and exposure to massive amounts of the spice Melange, found and mined on the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune. They are able to use a limited form of prescience to 'fold' interstellar space then safely navigate and pilot huge starships called Heighliners, to allow instant space travel to any destination in the universe.To enable their prescience, Guild Navigators not only consume large quantities of the spice, but are also continuously immersed in highly-concentrated amounts of orange spice gas, in large windowed tanks. This level of extreme and extended exposure causes their bodies to atrophy and mutate over time, their heads and extremities elongating, with finned feet and hugely fanned membranous hands, causing them to become vaguely aquatic in appearance. The first external sign of melange-induced metabolic change is visible in the eyes, as the drug tints the sclera and iris to a dark shade of blue, called "blue-in-blue" or "the Eyes of Ibad". The Navigators are cared for and guarded by the mysterious and secretive Spacing Guild Agents.
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let them tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spar!" - M o b y D i c k by Herman MelvilleNo artistic filters used-achieved through brush work. Only reference was a bath toy.
Lewis Carroll. Alice falling down the rabbit hole :)
"The hum stops and bends into a shudder that flows through my body like a melody, and when I open my eyes there's the glorious outline of a door of light, shimmering and beckoning as if it's been there the whole time just waiting for me to find it." A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Name of book : The SilmarillionAuthor : J.R.R TolkienPainting inspired by the story of Eol and Aredhel (Chapter 16) "And it came to pass that he saw Aredhel as she strayed amoung the tall trees near the borders of Nan Elmoth, a gleam of white in the dim land. Very fair she seemed to him, and he desired her; and he set his enchantments about her so that she could not find the ways out, but drew ever nearer to his dwelling in the depths of the wood."Oil on canvas, 48" - 48".
Hand painted & drawn illustration of a book that inspired me as a kid called"Mr Bill and the Run-away Sausages" The author is Georgie Adams.I loved the scene when the dog ran down the street with the sausages.The machine had gone crazy and there was so many being made! It always made me laugh as a child so I thought I would illustrate it in my style.Acrylic, watercolour pencil, biro and glitter on A4.