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16 x 22
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on watercolour paper

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all of my Potter art work, building up to (hopefully) having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

The last of the paintings for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"! It was a huge deal finishing this painting. I touched on this a bit in my talk about the vignette drawings, but I did all those first, so I could be finishing it all with a paintings. And as I said there, I thought this chapter could have been split into 2, because there is another scene I'd really wanted to paint - but read the vignette breakdown for Chapter 17 if you want to know more about that.

This painting I fought with for a long time before it was finished. There was so much I wanted to show, I wasn't sure I'd be able to fit it all in... but I think it worked out pretty well. The fact that one of the elements was a mirror gave me the reflection to work with so I could show 2 sides of the room.

The main scene though was Harry fighting with Quirrell. I wanted so badly to give a solid sense of action and movement. It wasn't perfect, but I like how it turned out.

It was really exciting to get to give a hint at Voldemort so early in the series. It's too bad I won't get to do any more with him until book 4... but I'm working on book 3 now... so maybe it's not SO far off

Oddly enough, Dumbledore - even though he's supposed to be a secondary element - came off smashingly well if you ask me. I really had fun painting the black flames, being both black, but also producing lite since they're, well, flames! But also Dumbledore himself - who's turned out to be one the characters that comes really easily to me to draw. I liked his body gesture and his placement on the page worked out just about perfect - not pulling focus from what was important while also making an entrance.

It was a decent piece to end the first book with!

Description
16 x 22
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on watercolour paper

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all of my Potter art work, building up to (hopefully) having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

The last of the paintings for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"! It was a huge deal finishing this painting. I touched on this a bit in my talk about the vignette drawings, but I did all those first, so I could be finishing it all with a paintings. And as I said there, I thought this chapter could have been split into 2, because there is another scene I'd really wanted to paint - but read the vignette breakdown for Chapter 17 if you want to know more about that.

This painting I fought with for a long time before it was finished. There was so much I wanted to show, I wasn't sure I'd be able to fit it all in... but I think it worked out pretty well. The fact that one of the elements was a mirror gave me the reflection to work with so I could show 2 sides of the room.

The main scene though was Harry fighting with Quirrell. I wanted so badly to give a solid sense of action and movement. It wasn't perfect, but I like how it turned out.

It was really exciting to get to give a hint at Voldemort so early in the series. It's too bad I won't get to do any more with him until book 4... but I'm working on book 3 now... so maybe it's not SO far off

Oddly enough, Dumbledore - even though he's supposed to be a secondary element - came off smashingly well if you ask me. I really had fun painting the black flames, being both black, but also producing lite since they're, well, flames! But also Dumbledore himself - who's turned out to be one the characters that comes really easily to me to draw. I liked his body gesture and his placement on the page worked out just about perfect - not pulling focus from what was important while also making an entrance.

It was a decent piece to end the first book with!