A few of the sketched ideas for the ‘Elemental’ series while playing with ideas; including an increasingly long (and increasingly tragic) story between the Merman and his lover.
All are in pencil and acrylic, paper size A4 / 8.5×11 inches. A few of them are available as prints here.
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Saturday 11, November, 2017
https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/11/11/elemental-sketches/
From a series of paintings embodying the four elements as human(ish) characters: the Spirit of Water and choice.
Seen here with his would-be lover, and the choice she has to make.
Acrylics, gesso, and liquid gold on paper; size A3 (30×42 cms or 12×17 inches.)
Created for Perna Studios (to be printed as a basecard) for their trading card set ‘Elementals’.
Prints and shiny things available here.
The work in progress (condensed into a few seconds) :
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 9, November, 2017
https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/11/09/elemental-of-water-choice/
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/
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