Tag: Watercolours

2018, Other Artworks

Occamy

Miss Escapist

“Hey, Mr English guy! I think your egg is hatching.”

Jacob Kowaslki – Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

When I’m not too busy with being a metalhead, I like to spend my time in the Potterverse as well. And with the new Fantastic Beasts movie coming up, doing a little Occamy painting was just the right thing to do. I mainly started this drawing because I wanted to practise working with watercolours for a change. I rarely use that medium and it was nice to come back to it. I started with painting the background and working out the Hogwarts silhouette. After the background had dried, I was able to start sketching the Occamy. I mainly used blue and purple colours for painting the Occamy and added some metallic highlights on top. For outlining the Occamy I used a black fine liner. As a final touch (that wasn’t originally planned), I drew the deathly hallows symbol that’s partially formed by the Occamy’s tail.

Paper size: A4

Materials: Faber Castell watercolours

Time: approx. 2 hours

2015, Other Artworks

A Colourful Experiment

Miss Escapist

“Open your eyes
See through the disguise”

Disturbed – Open Your Eyes

There are those days where I feel the urge to just randomly scribble around without thinking about what I’m doing. Just letting the creativity flow. This artwork came to life on such a day. I was roughly sketching an eye and sent a picture of it to a friend who immediately told me that he’d like to have it. I didn’t mind giving it away as I had only spent 10 minutes on drawing the eye. Nevertheless, the picture felt quite empty and lifeless to me and I didn’t want to leave it in that state. I spontaneously got out my watercolours and started splashing around – and to my own surprise I ended up liking the result (and my friend also liked it). Actually, I had a lot of fun while creating this as it felt so free and easy going.

Paper size: A3

Materials: charcoal, Faber Castell watercolours

Time: approx. 30 minutes

2014, Other Artworks

Moonlight Sailor

Miss Escapist

“Moonlight falling over me
Sail on where the shadows hide”

Kamelot – Moonlight

This rather simple painting came to live in December 2014 when I still needed a Christmas present for a friend. I was listening to music while I thought about what to draw – and of course got my inspiration from it. The artwork is mainly inspired by two things: Nightwish album “Oceanborn” and Kamelot’s song “Moonlight”. I had a quite clear vision in my mind how the picture was supposed to look like and got out my watercolours to bring it to life on paper. First I painted the moon, then I went on with the background. As a final touch I added the ship – which I drew with a fineliner to not mess up the details.

Paper size: A4

Materials: Faber Castell watercolours, Faber Castell fineliner

Time: approx. 2 hours