“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
HP Lovecraft
‘Dreaming Cthulhu’ in a range of Lovecraftian colours: Cyclopean sepia, non-Euclidean green, Decadent indigo, and Daemoniac black. Now there’s a cosmic horror to suit every mood and occasion. Available here.
The original (available on Etsy here)
In acrylics, pastel, and pencils, 21×29 cms
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 14, November, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/11/14/cthulhu-dreaming/
This monstrous little she-creature is part of a small, on-going series inspired by the works of HP Lovecraft and different sea creatures.
This one takes after an astonishing ghostly white octopus found a mile and a half under the sea, in the frozen black and crushing depths at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean. There they survive on the vents of volcanically-heated water erupting from under the seabed. That’s about as extreme as it gets. If we tried to visit we’d be simultaneously boiled, frozen, and pulped.
So my Antarctic Octopus mermaid is a force to be reckoned with: pictured here resting sweetly on the skull of a much larger foe that she vanquished before breakfast.
21x29cms, acrylics and gold leaf, digitally-added frame.
Prints and pretty things available here!
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 7, November, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/11/07/octopus-mermaid/
My deep-sea monster ladies are inspired by the works of HP Lovecraft and various sea creatures; this one a starfish – specifically the ‘Egyptian sea star’, which then suggested a sunken (or sinking) Egyptian temple for her to haunt.
(The statue is based on a particular pharaoh, extra points if you know which.)
Prints and shiny things available here!
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 5, November, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/11/05/starfish-mermaid/
Hera and Aphrodite
Aphrodite and Hera work in progress
Sketch cards (artist returns) for the Perna Studio set ‘Classic Mythology II’.
Acrylics, pearl media, crystals, 22k gold and silver leaf. 2.5×3.5 inches
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 22, October, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/10/22/little-greek-goddesses/
If you’d like to win this sketch of Bag End check out my Facebook post to see how! :)
And a hasty animation of its work in progress.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 15, September, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/09/15/bag-end-sketch-giveaway/
I did this as an indulgence just because I think Sylvester McCoy has a glorious face, and I loved the idea of framing Radagast with lovely living things.
This is the movie version of Radagast-ish, but without the bird poo etc. because he’s better than that.
Pencils and acrylics on paper, 20x30cms.
And here’s how he was done. :)
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 12, September, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/09/12/radagast-the-brown/
Father and son (one of them) with the border design I made especially for Elf portraits
(you can see it being made here.)
Fëanor whose name meant ‘spirit of fire’.
“Curufin the crafty … who was of perilous mood.”
Both from JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillion.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 10, September, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/09/10/feanor-and-curufin/
Thingol, King of the Grey Elves, from JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillion.
“In Beleriand, King Thingol upon his throne was as the lords of the Maiar whose power is at rest,
whose joy is as an air that they breathe in all their days,
whose thought flows in a tide untroubled from the heights to the deeps.”
Thingol throned in his grand and secret underground kingdom The pillars were said to be sculpted like great beech trees, with golden lamps hung from all their branches.
In the frame, either side of him are symbols based on those for Melian (his wife) and Luthien (his daughter), and above him his doom: the ‘Nauglamir’ necklace with a Silmaril in the middle.
He can also ornament your own underground lair, with pretty printed things from my RedBubble shop here.
Thingol (work in progress)
Thingol (detail)
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 9, September, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/09/09/thingol/
Eöl the Dark Elf from JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillion.:
“But Eöl, though stooped by his smithwork, was no Dwarf, but a tall Elf of a high kin of the Teleri, noble though grim of face; and his eyes could see deep into shadows and dark places.”
If you’d like a print of his glowering suspicion, you can find them in all sizes and finishes here.
This glowering gentleman was painted in a different way (for me): sketched entirely in paint, no line drawing at all until the end for details.
An interesting exercise, though riddled with mistakes and horror and doom. :)
Eöl (detail)
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 26, August, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/08/26/eol-the-dark-elf/
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