Folk art

INFO: 2024, digital painting Like most of my large scale paintings this again took longer than planned. This was mostly due to the tweaks required, once all the various parts had been painted, to make the goblin and animals on the right side of the…

INFO: 2022, digital painting Another painting that took longer to do than I expected. The abstract cave walls needed alot of trial and error both in shape and tone. Critique: the gradient cat reflection does’nt really fit with the flat style of the rest of…

INFO: 2021, digital painting My second attempt at a painting based on the Brother’s Grimm story The Three Gifts. As mentioned before I didn’t like the undefined style I used the first time round. I tried to make this version more 2D and geometric. I…

INFO: 2019, digital painting The overall tone and color palette worked out well enough for this piece aswell as the sky/flowers pointing to the action. I think it fitted with the accompanying orchestral composition too. Critique: the background tree silhouette needed more work, it should…

INFO: 2018, digital painting Yet another painting based on a story (The Three Gifts) from the collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and part of the larger composition project. Critique: This was a messy confusion of styles (should be less realism and more…

INFO: 2018, digital painting This was another painting based on a story (The Star Talers) from the collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and part of the larger composition project I’ve been working on since 2014. Critique: The global contrast worked out quite…

INFO: 2017, digital painting This was one of the first paintings I made to accompany the compositions I was writing/orchestrating based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales collection. This particular story was called Mother Trudy. It used a few older reference photos I had taken…