Tam Lin: The Milk-White Horse
image © 2009 mleiv
Medium: acrylic
Size: 11"
#3 or 3
This set is drawn largely from The Perilous Gard (see Favorite Books), but I had to throw in a bit from Red Feather in the middle (and I didn't think anyone would get a reference to the gray creature in Pope's book). My hope was to get prints made of these three, but I'm not sure if that will ever work (I've had no luck with the whole painting -> print process before).
This set is drawn largely from The Perilous Gard (see Favorite Books), but I had to throw in a bit from Red Feather in the middle (and I didn't think anyone would get a reference to the gray creature in Pope's book). My hope was to get prints made of these three, but I'm not sure if that will ever work (I've had no luck with the whole painting -> print process before).
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I love this. I wish I could get a book cover like this, but publishers all want photo covers now that they can change out with every new style.
this is acrylic on what? paper?
Yes, just paper. Well, it's canvapaper cardboard something, so it doesn't warp too much during the process (I used to tape thinner paper down, but that was a whole headache of its own and meant I lost 2 inches of the final piece to tape). I spend a lot of time building up the surface to a cracked plaster texture (using thickening mediums, sand, palette knife, etc.), then stain it with transparent glazes and dry-brush the image on top of that.