Thursday 20 February 2014

Pealing Potatoes For Inspiration

I will start this tale with once upon an evening of pealing potatoes for dinner...


 Lo and behold the majestic hippocomp that sparked my imagination...


The mythological creature was often depicted as a fabulous fish-tailed horse. The hippocomp were the mounts of Nereid nymph and sea-gods. In art they were often covered with green scales and had fish-fin manes and appendages.


The ancients believed the mythological creatures were the adult-form of the sea-horse fish. 


I have been always fascinated by the sea-horse fish, especially by the amazing fact that unlike any other species, the males become pregnant!!


So With a potato skin in mind and a pencil in hand I sat out to draw my own vision of the mythological creature.




Here it is.. My vision of the magnificent creature... Floating in the emptiness of a blank page with an airy mer-child peaking through its brood pouch, forever reaching beyond dreams...

Thursday 6 February 2014

A Walk In The Mist



The mist one morning came creeping in..


World in white haze is all bellowed and curled..
And trees are half way hidden and half way in sight


Clinging dew...


Or scattered pearls


When one shape ends...


Another begins





And something brewing...






And about to begin...