Morganaswelt

Boats

2009-04-26T12:10:00.003+02:00

Hi,
We were on a trip to England last week. I took my watercolor stuff with me because i thought i might paint while i am there. In the end I only managed to do one painting but i am quite satisfied with it and so here it is.

Watercolor on guardi artistico paper
30 x 24 cm

Hope you like it.

Bye

Morgana

Red Currant WIP4

2008-08-03T14:24:00.003+02:00

Bit further down the road. Will be slowing down a lot this next week, with hubby in hospital and working again i will not have as much time on my hands as i wished.

Blessings

Mo

Red Currant WIP3

2008-07-30T16:32:00.002+02:00

A bit further down the road this is going to take a long while to complete if i keep this pace.

Bye

Morgana

Red Currant WIP 2

2008-07-29T13:49:00.002+02:00

A bit further progress on this one. Not to much yet though. This is a slow going one with all the many layer it requires. I enjoy doing it though. I like the colors in there will be trying to post some updates this week. Next week vaccation is over and i have to work so probably things will slow down a lot then.

Bye

Morgana

Red Currant WIP

2008-07-26T13:22:00.003+02:00

Next one, still in early stages. A bowl of red currant. I found the reference in the WetCanvas Reference Image Library. Will have to look up who posted it there. Liked the red against the dark background so i thought i give it a try.

Also tried blending the frist layer of the background with a very short cut brush i normally use for blending pastels. Did work not bad. I managed to move the pigment a bit so the beige paper did not show to much anymore. Layered two more layers on the background now and will take the brush to it again when i am done with the last black layer i started in the top left corner yesterday.

It's on mi-teintes paper, smoooth side of course. About 23 x 19 cm. Prismas, Colorsoft, Polychromos ... all of the cps i own mixed together.

Thoughts? Ideas? Feel free to comment on this.

Mo

Primus inter pares

2008-07-23T20:33:00.003+02:00

Here is one fresh from my easle, finished it yesterday. Quite different to my usual work but i kinda like how it evokes thoughts.

Primus inter pares
Colored Pencils / Fabriano Drawingpaper
23.7 x 15 cm

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it.

bye
Morgana

Playing with §D Modeling and Rendering

2008-05-08T21:54:00.004+02:00

As i do not have enough time for traditional art, i decided to go for digital art meanwhile and produced this today with 3D-Modeling software.

Hope you like it

Bye
Morgana

Selfportrait

2008-02-08T16:30:00.001+01:00

Finally done! This one took a long time. Not because it was so much work but because i got bored with the hair and shirt in the end and had it sit unfinished for a long while. But at last i pulled it out and got it done.

Derwent coloursoft on mi-teintes
21 x 26 cm

I love those CP and i want more of them. I want them ALL.

Bye

Morgana

Falling Water

2008-02-03T14:31:00.001+01:00

There it is, finally got it done. Just plain old graphite on Fabriano Nr. 4 drawing paper. I love this paper. It is all smooth and slick and no bumps to fight with. It works great for CP too but only if you manage to get the job done with only a few layers. As it is so smooth you do not get many layers down.

19,5 x 28,5 cm

The only drawback is that they have an embossed mark in one corner of the paper and thus you have to leave a fairly large white space to two sides to avoid drawing over the mark and make it visible. :(

Anyway
Hope you like it

bye

Morgana

Graphite... i nearly forgot

2008-01-13T11:21:00.000+01:00

I have been starting a graphite work too. Thought it would be comfortable to do something with less mess for a change. :) This is going to be a landscape from my imagination with (how could it be other...) a lot of rocks. I was always fond of waterfalls. The power and the beauty of water in free fall is impressing. Still at an early stage, and a bad photo too. Will be back with a better photo and more done hopefully later this week.

bye

Morgana

Pastels and Oils

2008-01-13T11:01:00.000+01:00

I have been doing some pastels lately while waiting for the oils to dry. So i have some photos to show today. First is the oilpainting it is still in WIP stage and no where near finish. I have real trouble getting a photo of that one. No matter how hard i try there is always a glare on the picture. I tried to photoshop it to get a decent look. Still it is a bit off.

50 x 40 cm
Oils on canvas

It has no title yet, working title is "Dark place" but this will most likely not be the final one.

And here is the Pastels. The first is on Velourspaper. I liked how i could make soft transitions for the clouds but i hated how that paper worked for the buildings. No way i could get a crisp line down. I think i will try one of floating island on a different paper. I like the concept but this paper is no good for it.

28 x 19 cm
Softpastels on Velourspaper

And the last one is done on Mi-teintes. I was not sure if this paper i use for colored pencils a lot would work for pastels for me but it did. I think it shall do more pastels on that paper. It takes quite a few layers and allows for crisp edges and softtransitions. Me being used to do pastels on sanded paper i had to fight a bit but not to bad.

28 x 19 cm
Softpastels on mi-teintes paper.

That much from here and now. Hope you like it.

bye

Morgana

Two WIPs

2007-12-20T13:37:00.000+01:00

Working with oils includes a long time between sessions to allow for drying (at least for me) so this is why my output is low lately and i have 2 paintings still in the stage of WIP.

Wanted to show them to you anyways so you see i am still working and not only hanging around.

Both are flowers, a rose and a pink calla.
The rose is 30 x 40 cm and the calla is a small one only 15 x 15 cm

Two New...

2007-12-20T13:29:00.000+01:00

....two more to go.

Put up the two finished pieces on my website today and want to show them here too.

"Cold Barriere"
Oils on Canavas
30 x 40 cm

and a colored pencil piece i have been working on for what seems ages.

"Imbolc"

Colored Pencils on transparent paper
19 x 27,7 cm

And a WIP of a Rose....

2007-11-19T00:11:00.001+01:00

and again oils, giving me a hard time but still i believe i can pull it off. The photo is much to dark in the background but to light on the rose itself. *sigh* not easy to get decent photos.

will post update on the next Weekend hopefully.

Bye
Morgana

Lots of new work on my website...

2007-11-19T00:05:00.000+01:00

Tonight i felt like getting things in order again so i updated my website (Morganaswelt) and put up all the new work i have shown on here already. There is but one new piece which has not been on the blog yet and here it is.
"Graak" 30 x 40 cm , Oil on Canvas

And.... Nope it is not a siencefiction christmas tree, it is supposed to depict a demon.

I am not sure yet how i like oils for painting, will have to make more things with them before i decide :)

Bye for now Morgana

Where Planes Meet

2007-11-10T14:52:00.001+01:00

I got one finished at last. Due to the not so nice weather around here i could not get a better photo though. I shall try again another day when the sun is out again.
This one was done on velours paper, and it was driving me nuts on the one side and pleasing me on the other side. It is hard to get crisp edges on this paper but super easy to create soft transitions. So i shall use this paper when i want to have something soft looking and not try to get hard edges with it.

32 x 23 cm, various pastels on velours paper.

Hope you like it

bye

Morgana

Drawings

2007-11-01T20:01:00.000+01:00

Just two doodles... wanted to do something but not pull out all the equipment.

Graphite in my sketchbook, so nothing special
bye
Morgana

The latest... fresh from the easle

2007-10-21T12:37:00.000+02:00

"Zodiac Signs"
Watercolor on Watercolorpaper
24 x 32 cm

The Idea for that one came to me while i was reading up on astrological issues. Thought it would be nice to depict the qualities of the zodiac signs in a landscape. Took me ages to complete but not due to the difficulty of the painting but due to having next to no time for art. :(

Okay now i have posted all i did in the last month. Hopefully i will have more time to do more art and more experments in the weeks to come

bye
Morgana

I am still painting, even if it does not look like it :)

2007-10-21T12:10:00.000+02:00

I have not had time over the last few month to do anything on here. My retraining does occupie most of my time and what is left is dedicated to dancing (ballroom dancing that is). But i did actually paint to. Just a little... and mostly with watercolor. But i thought i might share anyway what i did.

As some of you might know i am not much of an abstract artist, but i did that one nevertheless. It was an experiement with watercolor on regular canvas. Did not turn out bad. I still need to varish this one. Not sure what i am going to do with it. Maybe it gets to be a present for someone i do not like a lot :)

"Abstract Forest"
Watercolor on Canvas
15 x 15 cm

Lately i find Watercolor much more conveniant than any other medium. It is done with brushes and it does clean up easy. That makes it nice for me to use, as i do not have a lot of time to spent on washing brushes and making sure no acrylics get dried out in them.

Did this one as an try out on postcard size watercolor paper. Wanted to see if i could achive a misty feeling. Well.... judge yourself.

"Misty Shore"
Watercolor on Watercolor cardstock
14, 8 x 10,5 cm

I like this one best of all those on this page. Just plain grapes i did from my imagination. I know they are not quite right in some places. But i liked doing them and i like the outcome.

"Grapes"
Watercolor on Arches Watercolorpaper
26 x 18 cm

This one was just another experiment i did on cardstock watercolorpaper. Used the "Derwent Inktense" on this one. Not at all bad how it turned out.

"Bright Day"
Inktense Pencils on cardstock watercolorpaper
14,8 x 10,5 cm

One more in this post. Again experimenting. Wanted to try out my favorite subject: Rocks. I liked the concept of a town high on cliffs in the see. Would be pretty hard for conquerors to get in there.

"Above The Sea"
Watercolor on Watercolorpaper
24 x 32 cm

Crocusses

2007-06-16T11:01:00.000+02:00

Finally done... phew...this was endless, as i had not much time to paint lately. Done with my new toy the Derwent Colorsoft pencils. And i must say.... i want to have them all...they are fabulous.

21 x 24,5 cm on Daler & Rowney Murano paper (brown)

bye

Morgana

Waterlilies

2007-05-01T22:23:00.000+02:00

Did those on mi-teintes paper, the blue one. Had a bit of a hard time with the fuzzy edges in the foreground, but finally done

about 20 x 36 cm - Prismacolor and Karismacolor pencils

Hope you like it

Morgana

Just a little inbetween....

2007-04-06T13:28:00.000+02:00

Did this one on a small piece of La Carte pastel card, that came with my new Senelier pastels. Nice that they put 2 of those small strips in to try it out. I was not overly impressed with how it performed though. I prefer the Schmincke Sansfix paper as that one does not shed any crumbs at me. This paper does seem to soak up pastels. I put down some darks first and when i came back next day they where much less present as they where when i applied them. Never had that occure with other papers, stange effect. Will try one more to see if it happens again.

7 x 14 cm - with all the pastel pencils i got on la Carte Pastelcard

Hope you like it

Bye
Morgana

Yule

2007-03-23T13:50:00.000+01:00

This is the second one in the series. Took even longer to complete, not because it was so difficult, but because life got in my way.
Again on transparent paper, 21 x 29,7 cm. Done with every brand of cps i have available.

Hope you like it

Morgana

Samhain

2007-03-02T11:45:00.000+01:00

Finally done! This one took quite some hours to complete. It is the first painting in a series i want to do depicting my view on the 8 solar holydays of pagan religion.

I have used no references at all for this. I just looked up henbane and had a good long look at how that plants look like, then i jumped right in and freehanded it from imagination. All in this painting sprung from my head.

It is 27,7 x 19 cm - colored pencils on transparent paper 112g/m²

Hope you like it

Morgana

Spring Bouquet

2007-02-24T12:01:00.000+01:00

Done this with real watercolor. I had them for about 20 Years now and never managed to make anything decent with them. Seems that all that practising with aquarell sticks and watercolorpencils worked wonders on my watercoloring skills.

I have that little booklet i bought 20 years ago, on painting flowers with watercolor. It fell into my hands last time i was rumaging around in my study to get it a bit more orderly and i thought "Hey why not give it a try?" I read about painting poppies and then sat down to sketch out a bouquet very loosly based upon what is in the booklet. (Can you guess that the clearing of my study was immediatly forgotten? :D ) Anyhow... this is what i came up with and i must say i am surprised myself how good it turned out.

I have no masking fluid or other fancy stuff. Just went with water and the brushes i use for my acrylics and watercolorpencils. The only thing that bothers me a fair bit is that the paper got buckled a bit in the process. Maybe i should have soaked it first and stretched it and let it dry again before i started sketching and painting. Well.... i am impatient :D

Size: 30 x 22 cm on simple watercolorpaper (boesner brand)

As always comments and critique is very welcome

bye Morgana

Playing with Inktense pencils

2007-02-19T09:10:00.000+01:00

I wanted to try out my new Inktense pencils and was fascinated with the bright, vivid colors. I had to back them up with a few watercolorpencils because i only have 12 of the inktense. I will for sure buy more of those.

22,5 x 14,5 cm on Watercolorpaper

Hope you like it

Morgana

a few new ACEO

2007-02-17T15:15:00.000+01:00

I bought 2 new papers and new pencils too, and of course i went to town with them and played a bit. The first one, named "Out of the dark" is on the Schöllershammer Transparentpaper (Glama Microdraft) 112g/m². So is the "Tulips in the sun" painting. They are both done with Prismacolor pencils.

The last one is called "Ivy pot" and was done with the Graphitint pencils on Watercolor paper.

I really enjoyed working on those. Right now i am thinking about something to make with the inktense pencils i got, lots of experiments on my mind and thinking hard about how i can afford to get me more pencils and more paper (i seriously need to find out how i can sell those ACEO cards on ebay :) )

Oh yes...they are all 2,5 x 3,5 inches as ACEO cards are supposed to be.
Hope you like them
bye
Morgana

Played with oils (WIP)

2007-02-17T15:12:00.000+01:00

and this is what i came up with. It is still a WIP and a lot more needs doing and i am sure it will be a long time till this one is done but i thought i might share anyways.
Oils on Canvas
24 x 32 cm

bye
Morgana

and one more softpastel

2007-01-28T15:51:00.000+01:00

First try on figure painting and a dragon with softpastels. Well, i think it is okay, i can live with it. I shall try some more later, but for now my hands need a rest from softpastels, they get so dry from all that dust.

Format: approx. DIN A4 (21 x 29,7 cm)

bye

Morgana

Two new Softpastels

2007-01-06T09:23:00.000+01:00

I finally got me a new SD card for my camera. So here is what i have been up to lately. Both of them are Softpastels. After this last few month of school where i did not manage to paint much i feel i am a bit out of practise. I hope you like them anyways. Both are on sanded paper and approx. 30 x 20 cm.
The first is named "Under a full moon" and the second is "Bridge into the sky"

bye
Morgana

Chalice and Dagger

2006-09-24T12:52:00.000+02:00

I did this one over a couple of days with the aquarellsticks. For me this one is quite large. It is 30 x 40 cm on watercolorpaper and i can tell you a had a hard time with the sky and water. I have the distinct feeling that i should come to grips with smaller formats first before i try anything so big again.

Anyways... it came out okay and now i a free to go on and do something i know ... colored pencils... hehehe

bye
Morgana

I thought i share those...

2006-09-22T11:35:00.000+02:00

This one is the first try with the Aquarelle sticks i have been talking of much lately. I did it while in Berlin, where i got these sticks and i quite like how it turned out.

11 x 15 cm on Watercolorpostcard

The other two are small ACEO size colored pencils works with a bit of black ink for the outlines. These i made during a time where i felt sooooo not like creating. I was simply lacking inspiration and so i thought i went for a bit more graphic design instead, where i do not have to think up so much in the way of composition.

They are both 2,5" x 3,5"

Hope you like them. Comments and Critique as always very welcome

Bye Morgana

Rainbow Angel

2006-09-20T18:37:00.000+02:00

Finally worked up the nerve to play with my new aquarelle sticks (Faber Castel brand) first i was just putting in blocks of colors and dissolving them and getting rather desperate because i did not like at all what i was getting, i am now very sure i am not an abstract painter. But then i saw the head and arm and wings of an angel in the shapes and settled to bring her out.

There she is

24 x 32 cm on watercolorpaper

hope you like her

Morgana

Refugium

2006-09-20T18:33:00.000+02:00

Finally finished it... i actually finished it a couple of days ago already but simply forgot to take a photo again.

45 x 50 cm
Acrylics on Canvas

Onion

2006-09-18T08:14:00.000+02:00

Here is the latest work i did ... well... i finished it 2 days ago and delayed posting. :( i am in a hole and need to find the exit. Harder to do than say...

ACEO Format
Colored Pencils on black paper

bye Morgana

New ATC

2006-09-13T12:17:00.000+02:00

I have been working on these two the last few days. The paper i bought in Berlin is nice black and acidfree but it does not take the colored pencils all to well. They only take a few layers. I think it sufficed though and i made them look good enough.

ATC format of course :D

bye
Morgana

Sooz River

2006-09-12T00:38:00.000+02:00

I did this landscape as a tribute to a great pastel artist who has passed away. She was a moderator to the virtual painting group i work with. This place i thought up and learned a lot while painting it. I call it Sooz River (because Sooz was the name i knew her under) and find it a comforting thought that she could sit in just such a place somewhere and paint.

23 x 34 cm, Schmincke Sansfix paper

Hope you like it

Morgana

One more update..

2006-09-04T19:22:00.000+02:00

Now this one is drawing to an end. My current mood is to just add a few shadows to the rocks and even out the sand on the nearer plateau and then call it done.

Morgana

Arch in the sky finished

2006-09-02T21:08:00.000+02:00

finally done.... this photo is not the best as it is taken in artificial light and needed a lot touching up to make it near the original.

various pencils on drawing paper

bye

Morgana

Arch in the Sky

2006-09-01T17:17:00.000+02:00

Here is what i have been working on this last night and most of this afternoon. Originally it was thought to be a sketch for a new pastel work. I decided that i needed a more distinct sketch after i did a smallish tryout sketch. To cut a long story short.... i got stuck with it and before i realised i had 1/3 of it done in refined drawing style... oh well... i will cary on now till done.

15 x 23,5 cm various graphite pencils on drawing paper

The photo was a quick one and therefore is not really good. I think you will get an impression anyways.

bye

Morgana

a bit further on the way...

2006-08-31T17:47:00.000+02:00

still a long way though. The rocks give me headaches i still ponder if i should add browns and greenish hues to them... on the other hand i like the black rocks. I seem to have painted those black rocks quite a few times and still i like the contrast and the darkness in the shadows.... hm... i will work on the crevice more today i think, creating a bit of green landscape there to counterbalance the bare and desertlike planes. Not sure yet where this one goes in the end.

Morgana

Floating

2006-08-24T18:44:00.000+02:00

Done!

I started this one last night during VPON and as you may have guessed it is an ACEO (means it is 2,5"x3,5" in size).

Colored pencils on drawing paper

Hope you like it

Morgana

Do you get bored yet by this?

2006-08-23T15:04:00.000+02:00

I do get bored.. at least by the rocks, so i decided to work a bit on the waterfall and the trees in the crevice. I also added a few scattered rocks but i am still nowhere near finish.

Morgana

more of it...

2006-08-22T15:01:00.000+02:00

Yesterday i had trouble uploading this one, which is not really an issue as i have not done anything to it since. I am not sure if i have the nerve to work on these rocks more today either. We shall see the rocks are not finished yet. I want to have those fallen rocks even more like crumbled manmade structures and the rocks in the middleground are not there yet either. Still lots of work to do

Morgana

and yet again....

2006-08-20T15:11:00.000+02:00

the daily update of my monster WIP, this is going to take forever to complete, the rocks to the right are just not right lot more work there.

I might pop in a small coloredpencil work or two, can not stay away from them for long :D

bye

Morgana

further steps on the WIP

2006-08-19T18:24:00.000+02:00

Here... as requested the next step on the long way to a finished piece ... i got some sky in and i think it looks a bit more like the viewer was outside and the trees grow inside!

Tell me what you think?

Morgana

New WIP

2006-08-18T16:30:00.000+02:00

I started this one late last night during the Paint out, it is going to be a rather surreal piece - fantasylike kinda. I pretty much just roughed in some colors now, only begun to refine the rocks on the left side, and still they are not yet there where i want them.

I also need to find a way to make it more obvious that the part behind the gateway is actually "inside" and where the viewer is is "outside" i think i will add a bit of blue sky to the right and change the hue of the light in the cave to a greenish hue and have more obvious rays of light and a more misty humid feeling there, maybe some plants hanging down from the cave ceiling too. Not sure yet. It is very far from where i want it to be and there will be a lot more details.

Anyway... it is on a 40 x 50 cm canvas, and it is acrylic paint.

Bye for now

Morgana

Black Calla

2006-08-17T17:51:00.000+02:00

Here we go, the Black Calla i was working on for two days and then had no time to take a photo.

The camera seems to have issues with the violett hues. Either there are no violett hues at all or they overpower everything. I needed to adjust it a lot to make it look like the original.

This is on Artspectrum Colorfix Paper (the small sheets and this one a reddish brown hue) with Toison d'or pastels (yes you guessed right koh-i-noor brand :) ) and a few pastel pencils to get the fine detail right.

Hope you like it

Morgana

Small stuff first....

2006-08-17T17:36:00.000+02:00

As i have promised, i did take a photo of the colored pencils landscape i did a couple of days before.

It is 12 x 8 cm and it is in my Sketchbook. I wanted to try out the new Progresso Pencils i got (koh-i-noor brand) and i must say i like them. They are a bit like wax crayons but only a bit and have nice translucent colors. I needed the polycolors (koh-i-noor brand too) to get real dark darks though and two really really dark prismas. But for the ground work and getting down the first layers quickly they are really neat.

I tried hard to have different shades of green for the various bushes and trees to make it appear like a clearing in a forest with a small pond. Not sure if i succeeded.

Well... this second one is a ACEO i did this afternoon.

I read a class (Basic 102 Portrait with Derwent drawing pencils by alfredart on WetCanvas!) and i thought i could give his technique a try.

I do only have one white Derwent Drawing pencil but i used Prismas instead. I like how it turned out. It is very diffrent to my more refined and even colored thingies i do normally but somehow i like the grainy look of it. As it is a ACEO it is 2,5 by 3,5 inches.

What do you think about this two pieces? I am not over the moon with them but i am kind of satisfied.

Morgana

Sunsettree

2006-08-14T20:56:00.000+02:00

New work!
I managed to finish the landscape in cp i was working on (and as usual forgot to take a photo while we had enough light - will show that tomorrow.)

Then I sat down to try my hand on a sunset i had laying around for ages. I always wanted to do that one in pastels but did not feel confident enough to try. Well, i felt like it today and so i did.

Hope you like it.

Hahnenmühle Japico-Pastelpapier
24x32 cm

Bye
Morgana

Grassblades

2006-08-12T17:35:00.000+02:00

Here is the second pastel painting i did, this time on Artspectrum Colorfix. I found a photo with grassblades on morguefile and altered it a lot to make the composition better (the original had such a strong X composition i did not like) The Colorfix paper worked great, what i pity it is soooooo expensive What do you think about this one? Bye Morgana

Red Pepper

2006-08-11T16:23:00.000+02:00

I was having a blast yesterday on VPON with the pastel lesson Piper did for us. She is such a fantastic teacher and we had much fun following her instructions. Even me who has never worked with pastels seriously managed to get something decent down.

Various Softpastels
Schmincke Sansfix Pastel paper (sandcolor)
33,5 x 27,5 cm

Actually the darks are a lot darker in real, somehow the purple pastels "shine" so much that i lost that dark shadow on the bottom left side of the pepper. Wonder how to get over that problem.

This is really the first serious pastel piece that i tried to do. And i feel kind of satisfied with it.
What do you think? Shall I go on trying to learn more or better give it up? :))

Bye
Morgana

White

2006-08-07T10:03:00.000+02:00

Finally... Done! Phew....

This one was quite tough, for this one artist that relyed to much on grey pencils all the time.

I struggled every step of this white flower drawn with no greypencils at all. But i learned a lot about complementary colors with colored pencils and how to layer them to arrive at a grey tone.

23 x 17,2 cm on mi-teintes paper
Prismacolorpencils and a bit of Derwent Drawingpencil

Hope you like it!
Morgana

Colored Pencils Project

2006-08-04T17:25:00.000+02:00

I have been working on a white flower for a project on Wetcanvas (CP-Forum). The main goal for this project is to draw something white without using grey pencils.

I have been struggling all over this piece to make greyish shadows with blue, rose and yellow pencils and i feel that i have to work a lot more to make it look realistic.

The piece is on mi-teintes paper and approx. 23 x 17 cm.

Bye
Morgana

Have been playing...

2006-07-26T20:25:00.000+02:00

....with watercolors. The last time i used watercolors was about 15 years ago and i produced such a mess that i gave it up.

After talking to Artman (jim) in the Wetcanvas chat last night, I decided that I could give them a try again. What the heck - what could happen? it is only a few cents of watercolor and a sheet of paper.

So i sat down and drew two poppie outlines and jumped right in.

These are ACEO and therefore only 2,5 x 3,5 inches (6,4 x 8,9 cm) on Guardi hotpress watercolorpaper.

What do you think?

Oh.... nearly forgot, i am thinking about reconstructing
my website. I get so tired looking at it, i need to sort out the old works too and make new groups for the different media i am working with.

So i fired up the painting software and tried to paint the pair of eyes i have had on my websiteheader for quite a while now. Here is my result! Looking okay?

Bye

Morgana

ATC Delicate

2006-07-23T15:55:00.000+02:00

Here is another one, i did it this morning, i saw a photo of such a flower somewhere on the web a while ago. This one i did more or less from my imagination, remembering the flower i saw. If some knows what that flower is called i would like to know please.

I did cut plastic sleeves with a selfadhesive back, for all my cards today. I thought it was a nice idea, one could peel of the backcover and just put the sleeve with the card in it into an album or on a bigger piece of cardboard to have them all together. The cards look really great in their sleeves, have to go and buy more sleeves to cut to the right size, as i plan on doing many many more cards.

bye
Morgana

By The River

2006-07-21T01:02:00.000+02:00

I nearly forgot.... Here is the newest ATC.
Again colored pencils on canson drawing paper.

Hope you like it.

Morgana

Blue Blossoms

2006-07-16T17:05:00.000+02:00

I did it again. This one is also an ATC (2,5 x 3,5 inches) on black drawing paper.
The photo is off again, the colors are more subdued in original and look more smooth too. I don't know how i will ever manage to get a photo that shows what really is there. Maybe i should take lessons on photography. *sigh*

Bye

Morgana

I discovered ATC

2006-07-15T15:48:00.000+02:00

I was busy the last days creating my frist ATC. This was really fun, i like working small so i think i will create a lot more of them. All of them are in colored pencils the rocks and the cuppacoffe are both on mi-teintes transparent paper the fencepost is is on white canson drawingpaper, the doorway is on black drawingpaper. I plan to sell them on ebay once i found out how that works.

Hope you like them

Morgana

Rocks

Cuppacoffee

Fencepost

Doorway

Waterlily

2006-07-09T17:17:00.000+02:00

This took me quite a while to complete. When i was half through with it some coffee managed to get spilled on it. I thought it was ruined past rescue. But then i decided to give it a try and cover the stains up. It turned out quite well.

21,5 x18 cm on mi-teintes transparent paper
Prismacolor pencils

Hope you like it
Morgana

Balcony view

2006-07-03T15:11:00.000+02:00

Done... finally.... This piece was from my imagination without any reference at all.

I still want to find out how to draw foilage with colored pencils and i do not feel i get nearer. If i look outside my window i see so many different shapes and greens in the trees, i would never be able to draw from that (would take 20 years to complete one tree) there must be a way to simplify but i did not find out yet. Will keep trying though.

18 x 26,5 cm on doreè Sketchingpaper (which was great great great to work on with colored pencils)

About 30 h or so of work. I did not count them all but i sat awake a few nights through to create it.

Grateful for every comment and thought as always
Morgana

The Gladiolus finished

2006-06-23T20:44:00.000+02:00

Oups i nearly forgot to show my finished gladiolus. Here it is... on a A4 sheet of artspectrum paper (21 x 29,7 cm), Prismacolor pencils bye Morgana

Just playing around a bit....

2006-06-23T20:35:00.000+02:00

I wanted to do a bit of sketching yesterday to plan out my next colored pencil piece. Did i ever tell you i can not sketch at all? All i ever get are fully grown drawings. I sort of get carried away and can not stop until it looks right. Here are the two i produced yesterday. The flowerpot is approx. 10 x 15 cm in size and the earthtemple is only 10 x 7 cm.

Sorry about the poor photos, the light is getting dim again, i should have taken the photos 3 h ago but forgot (as usuall)

bye
Morgana

Still the Gladiolus WIP

2006-06-21T14:25:00.000+02:00

Here is the latest photo, got all the color in place now and i think i got the detail allright too.

Now i have to go over the whole piece again with a very sharp pencil and "kill" all the tiny spots of black poking through and even out the coverage and add some touches of coler to places... the usual fine tuning.

I include a detail shot too so you can see how it looks close up at the moment. I hope to get this finished today.

Blessings

Morgana

Gladiolus on Black WIP

2006-06-19T17:53:00.000+02:00

I have been busy creating a gladiolus flower on black artspectrum paper with my colored pencils. I got a bit distracted around noon because the mail contained the new GERSTAECKER catalogue. I spent 1 happy hour looking at all the wonderful things i can not afford to buy *sigh* But i promissed myself a visit at the large art store (it is 1 h by car away... very good for me, that way i can not visit all to often...) and get me some sheets of this mi-teintes paper... i simply have to try it out. Maybe i can get some Bristolcarton too... hope to pick up sheets of some different papers to try out. I will leave my purse at home and only take 20 Euro to set myself a limit *grin*.

Anyway.... here are all the WIP pictures i took so far...

Rose Macro

2006-06-16T14:29:00.000+02:00

Finally done... worked on this something like 20 h... phew... I am still unsure about the shadows but what the heck i have to stop somewhere and anywhay the paper is not going to take any more layers.

It is on Fabriano No. 4 a heavy very smooth paper. Had a bit of a hard time working on this paper. I liked that it had no grain (indents) but it has little tooth too which makes it hard to do more layers. While working on this piece i found out about using stiff short brushes to fill in the more obvious specks of white poking through by drybrushing the surface with medium pressure. Not a bad idea but i have to go and buy some of those really cheap (1 Euro for 10 pieces) brushes to cut them short for use as a drybrush on colored pencils.

Anyway... i am off now to find me another reference... this one was from the Wetcanvas RIL.

bye
Morgana

Cup of Coffee

2006-06-14T13:36:00.000+02:00

This is just a doodle i did yesterday. I tried to get the outline of a waterlily down correctly... failed... then i tried for a rose with waterdroplets.. the outline went okay, but then i realized that the paper did not take enough layers... so one more failure... at least i got frustrated and started doing some tryouts and came up with this little thingy. It is totally done from my mind, no reference at all. At least it has no petals *smile*.

Bye

Morgana

White Flowers

2006-06-12T19:57:00.000+02:00

And again a flower. After the first experiments worked out rather well i tried my hand at a photo from a very nice man who granted me permission to use his work as a reference. Drawing the outline freehand was a bit difficult as i had to get it right on first try because none of my erasors would take off the color from the black paper again, but all in all i managed to be not to far off the reference.

The work is 15 x 20 cm on black paper with Prismacolor pencils only.

Hope you like it!

Bye Morgana

Bouquet

2006-06-09T14:28:00.000+02:00

I did this one as an exercise with my new Prismacolor pencils. I was so eager to try them out that i did no planing at all. I just went to the "WetCanvas Reference Image Library" and found me the middle flower, drew the outline, left the computer to sit down at my working space and started to throw the color in.

The first flower turned out so well, that i decided i could have a few more. So i went to find me some other flowers, one at a time and again just copied the outline and went with my imagination to fill them in.

I have to apologise for the bad composition in this piece. As i said, no plan before i started, they simply got mixed together as i found them.

In the original drawing the contrast is much better, especially with the big red flower, the photo turned out to be very flat so i had to tweak it, but could not get the original value range.

All in all i am very pleased with the outcome. Now what do you think?

Bye Morgana

Pig Headed Timothy

2006-05-30T01:33:00.000+02:00

In a beautiful, crystal clear mountain lake lived Timothy with his parents. Now you certainly want to ask why Timothy lived in the lake. Well… that is because Timothy was a little fish boy. In fact he was a child trout. He was very funny and clever and his parents loved him so, because he was their only child. And, as it is with many single children his mother had much more time to spend with him then other mothers did. That was the reason why Timothy became very intelligent and was the head of his class at school.

He was a sweet child, and his parents were very proud of him but sometimes Timothy was stubborn and wouldn’t listen to anybody because he thought he knew every thing. His parents used to sigh and say: “Oh how stubborn our child is!” They sometimes scolded him and said: “Timothy, we are much older and wiser then you are, don’t you think we know what is best for you?” Timothy thought it funny if his parents acted that way, because then he had their full attention. So he started to throw tantrums more and more and this really unnerved his parents. . .

One day his mother could not bear the situation any longer. She had an idea. This time as Timothy started to throw a fit and would not do as his mother had told him; she would sit in her big rocking chair and start to rock very gently, back and forth back and forth.

“Mummy, I want ice cream, now.” – No reaction, just a gentle smile and a soft “No!”

“Give it to me, I WANT ICE CREAM NOWWW!!!!!” One could hear Timothy’s screams on the other end of the lake, but mother acted as she had heard nothing at all. She rocked for a while longer and looked out of the window with a dreamy expression on her face.

“Mummy.. Muuuumy, Muuuuuuuummy!” Timothy’s face was starting to get blue with fury. He hopped from one fin to the other and beat his tail to the floor as hard as he could. His mother got up…

“YES!!!” thought Timothy “now I have her, now I will get my ice cream!” He stomped his fin one last time for good measure. But what was this? Mother came back with a cup of algae tea and sat down in her rocking chair again. Timothy was totally baffled. How could she do such a thing? She should go and get his ice cream now. Timothy fell silent with amazement and looked at his mother with his mouth hanging open.

“Now Timothy, did you calm down? You want a cup of tea too?” said his mother with a very loving and gentle smile. Timothy could only nod his head, even though he actually did not like tea at all. Mother got up and fetched another cup for her son and while they sat there drinking their tea, Timothy told his mother what had happened in school that day. His mother listened very closely. That was when Timothy realized that it was much more fun this way. Throwing those tantrums was very exhausting and not all that much fun. This was a much better way to get his mother’s attention. He even realized that he had been very stupid and silly for misbehaving..

“I am sorry Mummy for yelling at you!” he said very subdued. Mother looked at him with a very loving smile and stroked his back fin.

“Apology accepted! Now…What do you think about a game of “Little Fish don’t lose your head?” That was Timothy’s favorite game and so they sat and played and in the evening when his father came home from work Timothy was very excited to tell him that he had learned some very important lessons today. And what do you think that might have been?

The River Styx

2006-05-15T14:03:00.000+02:00

...is a place from greek mythology. The River that separates the world of the humans from the world of the death. On this river there is a ferryman called Charon who brings the souls across the river. The water of the styx is said to be poisonous.

This is the 3th one in the series and now i have to think a lot about the next drawing. My son suggested i should do Hephaistos' smithy. We shall see..

This one is on approx. 21x29,7 cm Sketching paper the paper has a slight yellowish tint.

bye Morgana

Mythological Places

2006-05-11T23:27:00.000+02:00

Hi all, i have been doing some pencils drawings the last days. I think i will make a series of well know places from Myth. The first two are already finished. The Tree "Yggdrasil" which origins form germanic lore and the "Fountain Of Youth" They are both on about 24 x 32 cm Sketching paper with nothing more the plain old pencils. Hope you enjoy them bye Morgana

Some don't fit in - Series

2006-05-06T23:57:00.000+02:00

Now... here is the series complete. Did all of them with colored pencils as an exercise. They are on postcard size watercolorpaper bye Morgana

Dabbling with Colored Pencils

2006-04-26T20:47:00.000+02:00

I have been wanting to learn more about the use of colored pencils for a long time now. Finally i managed to get hold of a box of artist colored pencils for a reasonable prize and started experimenting with them.

I did try some different papers and finally started this landscape on a piece of Sansfix pastelpaper which is a kind of sanded paper. I thought i could achieve a look without paper shining through more easy on that paper. I was right, still i sat approx. 20 h at this piece. Never thought that cp where that time consuming... but allright, here it is. For a first complete work i am satisfied with it. Making foilage with them is really hard and i have to do more experiments to come up with a methode to make good looking foilage still.

The second one is on watercolor paper that comes in postcard size already. It took me the better part of a whole night (6h) to complete this. I tried very hard to get rid of the white specks but after 6 h i gave up and decided i'll leave this experiment and call it finished. I will do more of them to make up a series called "Some don't fit in" Will see where this goes. I am thinking of trying to use some softpastels on that watercolor paper as well. Just a bit more experimenting.

Now i am really interested to hear what you think about these.

Bye

Morgana

Rocky Path

2006-04-18T14:56:00.000+02:00

The original title is german ("Felsenpfad"). Have been working on this one for about 3 days now. How i came to create that? Well... I was playing that computergame, that had real nice rocky landscapes in and i tought i could try and come up with a landscape full of rocks of my own. So I sat down and started by drawing some rough outlines of what goes where and began to fill in all the rocks. I really liked doing this one. It was fascinating to see how a few lines and shades could make all the difference. I am still unsure about the tonal contrast in that drawing. It seems a bit flat to me but i was afraid to add more darks. Had a hard time with the light coming from the top right, so the column and the rock near the door could not have shadows of their own, because they are in the shadow of the building. I feel they are drifting a bit but i could not think of a way to make them stay put.
I am really interested in suggestions and comments about this one, as i did it completely out of my imagination, no reference at all for no part of it. So what do you think, does it work?

Oh it is 24 x 32 cm and pencils only (the graphite ones *smile*)

bye

Morgana

None Shall Pass (Thanks to Rose Queen for the wonderful title)

2006-03-31T17:02:00.000+02:00

Finally done! The colors in the Mountains and trees are a bit brighter in the original painting, but the sky is a bit darker. But all in all it is not to far off. Please feel free to use the comment button and leave me a message if you like it or not and why!

I am now back to my drawings, have to practise on perspective a bit more...

Bye

Morgana

PS: Rose Queen found a much better title for this painting. Thank you very much!

WIP working title "Hideaway"

2006-03-26T18:01:00.000+02:00

a step further on my way to the finished piece.
I still have a long way to go.

bye

Morgana

started this one today....

2006-03-13T22:44:00.000+01:00

Not really much done yet, only the sky and the farest mountains are ready. and i could not get a decent photo it is much more pink in the photo then in real... there are only hints of pink in the sky :(

The other mountains are only blocked in right now... will work on them tomorrow to make them look right.. where the big white blob is there will be a castle (if i can make it look like a castle that is)

30 x 40 cm on Canvas

bye Morgana

Stepstones

2006-03-10T13:31:00.000+01:00

It is finally finished. A friend came round today and carried it of to hang it in her Reiki studio. Still not sure about it, but okay, she likes it the way it is and with that i should be satisfied, shouldn't i?

It is 30 x 40 cm on Canvasboard.

Bye Morgana

Portrait Exercise

2006-03-09T18:18:00.000+01:00

This is a portrait i have drawn after a photo a fellow WetCanvas artist was so kind to send me. All in all it took me some 5 h. The size is 24 x 18 cm and it is only pencils (5H, HB, 2B, 7B) on a nameles drawingpaper i bought 1 year ago. I hope i can find that paper again as i like very much drawing on it.

I can see that there are some minor "offs" in the drawing but all in all it is her face. *smile*

Thank you again Mairrca for letting me have that photo.

bye

Morgana

How i spent this day

2006-03-06T17:40:00.000+01:00

Found this butterfly at the Wetcanvas Drawing&Sketching forum. (Weekly Drawing Thread that was) and simply had to try. I am not satisfied with the leaves, got a bit lost in all that green. Also i simplyfied the background a great deal. I measured and measured and looked at the ankles but still it seems to be somewhat off... oh well... i am not all that good at drawing. I will call it a day and am off for dinner now.

Bye

Morgana

Here is the original thread if someone cares to know.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=329923

I am still at it....

2006-03-06T11:57:00.000+01:00

Added a few more details, but still do not feel it is finished. There is something missing and i can not find out what. It feels like there is something that wants to be painted in, but i can not feel what. This sat on my easle for a week now nearly untouched but i can not call it finished. Well... i will stare at it for another week, maybe i know by then.

Meanwhile i did some pencil drawings, but i do not have pictures of that yet. I always get a glare on the graphite when i try to photograph indoors, although i am not using a flash but just set it where the light from the window falls on it. Guess I will have to wait until the snow goes away and take the photos outside.

Tried my hand at a selfportrait, next time i'll work from a photo instead of trying from the mirror. That model does not keep quiet while i draw, i will have to fire her. *grin*

Bye for now

Morgana

WIP a few more steps....

2006-02-28T15:56:00.000+01:00

Here it is again, i have had time to do some more painting and this is where i am right now. Still lots of work to do, i am not satisfied with the foreground yet and the water is still much to blue. Thinking about some flowers beneath the path maybe... or maybe not... hm... we shall see....

bye

Morgana

Deep Winter

2006-02-15T12:02:00.000+01:00

another one i wanted to share. Did this a few weeks ago but never got round to take a photo. This is the first painting after a long period of not painting and i feel i have to learn everything all over again *sigh* I should not allow for life to get in my way with painting.

Original is 30 x 40 cm on MDF-Board

bye
Morgana

In the mountains

2006-02-15T11:26:00.000+01:00

I did this pastel painting a couple of weeks ago, i am still not satisfied with the way pastels work for me. I was looking for information on how to paint foilage with pastel but found none, so it was all trial and error. A lot more error then success but okay.. it is all a learning experiance. Decided now that my next pastel painting should be a still life (to make things a bit easier for me). I do not know when i will have time to try again, but i surely will.

Bye
Morgana

WIP first steps

2006-02-13T18:01:00.000+01:00

I started this painting yesterday.
Not really much to be seen on it right now.
Just roughed in some darks and colors to state what goes where.

There will be some "Step stones" in the water and of course more details.

We shall see where this one goes.

Bye

Morgana

Here we go....

2006-02-12T12:33:00.000+01:00

I created this blog to show my paintings, drawings and digital art.
I already have a Webpage, but it is in german language and some of my english speaking friends have some trouble navigating through it. As i do not have time to make a whole new website in english, i decided i could go the easy way by creating a blog and sharing in english language.

I hope you enjoy looking at my art. You are invited to comment on my pictures and tell me what you think about them.

Bright Blessings
Morgana