Girl and Horse...

This might serve as the basis for a painting one day, on the theme of the strange damsel who, in Arthurian legend, presents Sir Perceval with a great horse that is really a demon in disguise. A particularly gothic feeling section that obviously struck a chord with me. This reference image was quite close to the image already in my head. It would need to be a nocturnal scene, though.

Terse dream descriptions.

I definitely agree with the cartoonist in the latest ImagineFX that peoples descriptions of their dreams should be restricted to five words or less, so: 'Rainy street. Horse. Saturn looming'.

Rider

Here is a peek at a work in progress, started yesterday, one of a couple of personal pieces I have on the go...



I'm quite pleased with it so far and am letting it develope organically. Sometimes it's nice to start painting and see who or what appears on the board. I originally thought that it might turn out to be a character from one of my visual stories, Asterith the druidess. However she's turned out a somewhat more wistful figure, and a brunette (because there was brown paint on the brush), so probably not. As she has a medieval air (and looks less of a tomboy than the character I had in mind), I'll probably change it so she's riding side-saddle. Maybe a more precise theme will emerge as the piece progresses.