Monday, November 14, 2011

In the Book Forest

Just when I was starting to appreciate the relative speed of digital art, I had to go and do something like this -
- which is currently in progress and taking quite a lot of time.

I started a traditional version of this piece many years ago as a poster to take with me to the second annual SCBWI Winter Conference. It was very large when compared to the sizes I'm accustomed to working with and proved to be rather overambitious given the very limited amount of time I had to complete it. So... it has sat around in my closet waiting for its day of resurrection which seems to have come at last. Now, I just need to tame this beast by painting lots and lots of books, books, books!

3 comments:

Archie-The-RedCat said...

ah that so cute.. ^^ I really wanted to see the finished result,keep up the amazing work!

Phyllis said...

Thanks! Hope I can finish this one up soon!

Cindy D. said...

This is great! I love giant stacks of books, particularly with cute animals. I hope you post the finished project (or even more progression pics).