Sketchbook 2015 - copies

Drawn after some of my favourite illustrators :

Jackie Morris

 (East of the Sun, West of the Moon, 2012)

("The Winter Queen and Her Russet Red Lover" 2010)

Jan Cerny

 (Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, Gründ 1988)

'Forever the fire burns in our hearts'

Commission for Rachael (:

(rachaelswiregarden.deviantart.com)

Everything starts with an ugly sketch :

Work in progress : watercolours, salt, white ink, black gel pen on paper.

Tours de Merle

Return to work after almost a entire month of artistic inactivity.

I had to finish something, and quickly!

 The caslte depicted here is called "Tours de Merle", a medieval and fantastic place... 

 Reference pictures below
(source here and there)

The Tours de Merle (English, Towers of Merle) are the ruins of a castle in the commune of Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle, in the Corrèze département of France. A feudal fortress from the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, which was subject of a classification as a historic monument since July 30, 1927.

In the fourteenth century, Merle included seven castles, two chapels and village, owned by seven noblemen from Merles.

During the Hundred Years' War, the English took one of the towers and a castle in 1371.

In 1574 the Calvinists took the citadel, where they established a garrison, they were driven out two years later by the co-lords. But the fortress was abandoned by those who preferred to live in places that were more pleasant and certainly more accessible.

(from Wikipedia - I admit I was too lazy to write my own comment here)