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This piece is a recent escapee from the drawing table, and it was indeed challenging. While the linework is symmetrical, its symmetry is altered as I go through the painting and coloring process. This is no bad thing; perfect symmetry would be dull, and it would bore me. As the artist, I do not want to be bored while working on my own artwork. So there are subtle differences between the two blue dragons, and there are differences in the left/right halves of the background dragon face. It's partly intentional and partly because it took me four months to finish the coloring, and I didn't want to try to keep track of eleven thousand details to keep that perfect symmetry.

I used a multimedia approach to this, as always. The line design is one I originally used in the Dragon Adventure 2 coloring book, but I blew it up to about 170% of its original size so that I could really enjoy the details, and I printed it on Bristol board. Yes, this is a hand-colored print! It is absolutely an original artwork, and I won't likely color another of this design for show-and-sell purposes.

I used Prismacolor pencils over a watercolor and salt base; the watercolor gives me control of the overall color scheme, and fills in the negative space with some nice texture. There is some gold paint pen detailing, because I like the shimmery effects when I turn it in the light.

There are lots of stones in this one, too. The large teardrop on top is "sunhouse" jasper. The large blue stone below it is lapis lazuli. The large stone grayish teardrop stone below that is another jasper of some kind. There are also small lapis lazulis, tiger eyes, and black chalcedony (color treated). There are shiny bits also, naturally.

The artwork is 14x17 inches.

Original art: available for $800 + shipping. Will be matted to at least 20x24 inches.

Prints: See the Print Prices and Information journal entry for information.

Description
This piece is a recent escapee from the drawing table, and it was indeed challenging. While the linework is symmetrical, its symmetry is altered as I go through the painting and coloring process. This is no bad thing; perfect symmetry would be dull, and it would bore me. As the artist, I do not want to be bored while working on my own artwork. So there are subtle differences between the two blue dragons, and there are differences in the left/right halves of the background dragon face. It's partly intentional and partly because it took me four months to finish the coloring, and I didn't want to try to keep track of eleven thousand details to keep that perfect symmetry.

I used a multimedia approach to this, as always. The line design is one I originally used in the Dragon Adventure 2 coloring book, but I blew it up to about 170% of its original size so that I could really enjoy the details, and I printed it on Bristol board. Yes, this is a hand-colored print! It is absolutely an original artwork, and I won't likely color another of this design for show-and-sell purposes.

I used Prismacolor pencils over a watercolor and salt base; the watercolor gives me control of the overall color scheme, and fills in the negative space with some nice texture. There is some gold paint pen detailing, because I like the shimmery effects when I turn it in the light.

There are lots of stones in this one, too. The large teardrop on top is "sunhouse" jasper. The large blue stone below it is lapis lazuli. The large stone grayish teardrop stone below that is another jasper of some kind. There are also small lapis lazulis, tiger eyes, and black chalcedony (color treated). There are shiny bits also, naturally.

The artwork is 14x17 inches.

Original art: available for $800 + shipping. Will be matted to at least 20x24 inches.

Prints: See the Print Prices and Information journal entry for information.