Holly The Terrible's Art and Life
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!
Also, I won the Winter Tag Team Contest over on deviantART! Both categories too! Best Illustration and Best Team Effort! Here is the link to check out the full/completed illustration I made for the contest, http://hollytheterrible.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4d6fe0
I miss it terribly.
1. Illustration from my sketchbook of the talented actor Richard E. Grant as Giles Redferne from the film Warlock.
2. Victor finds Elizabeth. A scene from Frankenstein, Chapter 23.
3. Random sketches
4. Smile!
Hello All!
I have been drawing like mad lately. Really been trying to get better at it. Don’t want the young art students kickin’ my ass in class.
So here are two of my latest scribbly doodles.
First one is a quick sketch for a painting idea I have. It’s of the masquerade scene in The Phantom of The Opera. With my own style/twist on the subject of course.
The second is of Gwen the Ghost (before she got a touch of paint). The finished/painted version is up in my Etsy shop.
I have just noticed that I have been drawing a lot of ladies in dresses that get blown by a breeze on the same angle! Huh? What’s that about I wonder…oh, well, time to move on!
TO THIS!
Gotta love that Labyrinth! If you don’t, then I’m afraid we can’t be friends.
This is a rough preliminary acrylic painting on watercolour paper. It is around 6″ x 9″ in size. I’m thinking of changing things around a bit. I might want to add dancers and Sara in her ball gown within the orbs/bubbles. I also need to fit Sir Didymus in somewhere as well. Not sure where though? Don’t worry. The larger version won’t look as crammed as this small version. Hopefully. The panel I will be painting on is around 18″ x 24″.
Just a little Notice*
I Don’t Own Labyrinth or any of its amazing characters. Henson, Froud, Lucas, and Jones own it. This is just fanart for my own amusement, and not for sale.
Bye for now,
Holly The Terrible
P.S. Ludo is awesome.
P.S.S. I signed up for the Sketchbook Project again! My theme is “the companion book” and I’m not telling yet what I will be doing for it! It is a secret! I will show it to everyone once it is completed though. So don’t worry.
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“I never express myself like other people. I don’t do anything like others. But I’m tired, very tired…I’ve had enough, do you hear? Enough of having a forest in my house, and a torture chamber! Enough of being lodged like a mountebank in a double bottomed box! I’ve had enough, enough! I want to have a quiet apartment, with ordinary doors and windows, and a good wife in it, like everyone else! You ought to understand that, Christine, and I shouldn’t have to keep repeating it to you! A wife like everyone else…I’d love her, and take her out for a walk on Sunday, and amuse her all through the week. Ah, you wouldn’t be bored with me! I have more than one trick up my sleeve, not counting card tricks. Tell me, would you like me to show you some card tricks? My little Christine, my little Christine…Are you listening to me? You won’t reject me anymore, will you? You love me! No, you don’t love me. But it doesn’t matter: you will love me.” -Erik (aka Phantom)
Excerpt from Gaston Leroux and his brilliant novel, The Phantom Of The Opera.
Artwork details:
Christine Daae and Erik, aka The Phantom.
I have been wanting to paint these two for awhile now and I am really glad I had some time inbetween other projects to do so. I actually might paint them again soon for it was so much fun doing this one. Maybe next time I will paint his mask black like I was going to originally, but found I already had too much blackness going on with the background. I wanted some contrast, I guess. I am really proud of Christine’s curly blonde locks though. Totally worth the time painting it.
Painted on heavy watercolor paper using acrylics. Painting’s measurements are 7″x9″. Completed in the summer of 2011.
~Holly The Terrible
*The Phantom Of The Opera and its iconic characters belong to Gaston Leroux. One of the originators of the detective story. If you haven’t read it yet, I completely recommend it. The unabridged version, of course.
I have been working on a ton of new work lately. Feeling pressure to get many things completed before I take a vacation soon to see family/friends back home in Florida. The one pictured above is called, Eve. I just finished her up last night, March 9. Took several weeks to get it to a point where I felt that happy completion could commence. I’m really proud of the overall tone with this one. Painting those scales were fun, but time consuming. Its acrylic paint on a 8″ x 10″ cradled wood art panel.
Hopefully, I will be posting within the next couple of days, a larger painting on canvas that looks like something right out of Wuthering Heights. This is probably for I have been watching oh-so-many Masterpiece Theatre productions while working. I’m trying a different style on this one so I’m a bit nervous on what the public response will be.
Well, that’s it for now. Remember kids, never use the phrase, “March Madness”. Uttering that remark will certainly irritate anyone within earshot distance. Trust me.
Take care,
Holly The Terrible (An irritable artist during the month of March).
So I have been missing in action for quite some time because of me getting picked randomly for Grand Jury. Luckily, I did finish up my sketchbook project. So here are a few of the pages that I completed. Actually, almost all of them. Enjoy!
So I signed up to receive my moleskin sketchbook today (should arrive within 2 weeks). I’m really excited about the whole thing. I picked the theme of “science project gone wrong”. MUHAHAhahahahaaaa. I also signed up for the digitizing of my book as well. That way years later on down the road I can look it up and see what I created. Thanks to my friend, Aileen, for letting me know about it.
I have been working on some weird 3D portrait stuff recently. I only have two finished as of right now, but plan on making three more. The materials I have been using are wood (for a plaque base/background), paperclay (an air-drying clay that is adhered to the wood), and acrylics. I like how they look like my 2D paintings, but when viewed from angles, the faces pop out. This project is more time consuming than my usual painting style, but I am quite enjoying it. Maybe one day I will go larger with this concept. The ones I am working on right now only measure at 5″ x 7″ in size.
Again, I most thank my friend, Aileen, for this latest project of mine. She is always telling me to get back into making my 3D art dolls that I used to make while I was at art school. I made so many that now live in boxes on my shelves. I only have about two out on display in my apartment. Guess I still don’t like remembering art school. So yeah… at this point in time, I didn’t want to create a whole art doll. So I decided to create whatever you might call these things. Hmm…what should I call them? Heads on plaques? 3D portraiture? Well, for now, I will just call them the names I have given them. Beatrice and Violet.
Here is some early pictures of the making of them.
I got a banjo for my 27th birthday! Now I’m really excited to learn how to start frailing about! Yes!
In other news, I have started two larger portrait paintings than my more recent work. Both are on wood panels. One measures at 18″ x 24″ and the second at 18″ x 18″. One is going to be a portrait of a young lady covered in insects (clothes will be made up of bugs basically) and the other will be of a lone gun-woman (what is the female version of a lone gunman?) waiting for a dual on the street of a western town. I felt like visiting old themes of late with these new works in progress, but with my style twisting them up a bit. So enjoy the early photos of my crazed pencil markings before the work gets too painted up. Wish I had gotten a picture of the lady with the bug problem before I painted her face. Oh well. I try to work fast.
