Little Red Riding House

I told myself that I'd get one more painting done before the year ends and I did this little painting yesterday. It is gouache on watercolor paper. About 12"x15" or so. Also, I was as sick as a dog while painting it.

I took some process photo shots with my iPhone while I was painting it and put a little collage below. You can see that I started out with a sketch, but the details changed quite a bit as a painted. When I'm not doing commercial work, I like to avoid doing too much planning.

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Hollow Eggs

Another fairy tale, of sorts. This is tweedle dee and tweedle dum -- if they were constructed from partially broken, hollow eggs with candy cane spinal columns. And wearing lederhosen, of course.

Pen and ink on actual paper.

Teapot with Lederhosen

A quick little ditty. Colored pencil, ink, watercolor, and marker on some rough newsprint type paper.

Hanzel and Gretel Stove

I managed to get a bit of time to do some non-work art this last weekend. I did a ink and watercolor drawing of a Hanzel and Gretel stove. Not sure exactly where its going; its connected in someway to some of the fairy tale hell pieces I'm working on. I think there's some unspoken crime in the original fairy tale. Hanzel and Gretel were pretty obnoxious, wind up murdering the witch, and get away with it. Perhaps this is their punishment.