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Maggie C. A. Hogarth (Micah)
One of my few pieces of personal art and in the peculiar class of 'business-themed art' that I've done. "Management Versus Leadership: An Allegory." As a manager you must decide whether to lead with human touch, or to direct with chains of imposed authority.
And here is the cover for my book of short stories, Alysha's Fall ( Check it out at http://www.stardancer.org/af/). I wasn't originally planning to do the cover art, but the publisher told me in no uncertain terms that I was doing it, like it or not. I think it came out pretty well, considering I was extremely nervous, and limited to black, white and one other color. . . .
An old one, pasted together across several scans, "Broken Chains." Lots of color pencil work. Color pencil gradients are evil.
It's too much fun to do these drawings; probably because you get to do non-repeating patterns and be as delicate or as intricate as you desire. Whatever the case, I've extended the haiku series to include the Hedge-Witch and Guardian (though alone in their portraits). This one is 'above drifting koi / glittering sky riders dart / beneath dawn's soft clouds.'
This one's a visual haiku: 'nature and mankind / both fitting subjects for the / enlightened canvas'. Micah and Samanthia in furisode kimono themed on nature (undersea) and mankind's works (cranes building skyrises) in front of a shrine to nature (clouds and cliff) and mankind (airplace in the sky, near Samanthia's face).
A piece I've been working on for a while. The healer, bringer of water and life. The paper quality was a limiting factor in this piece. I've made a note to find better paper.
Been hiding for a while, but finally decided to see what it was like to do some coloring on the computer.
A loose drawing I did with pencils and art markers, which I tend to use for a watercolory look. "Touching-Knowing" is the title.
This is a piece from the Zalitraeq series that's starting to travel around to art shows: "Lover-Hermit".
Here's the final watercolor (my paean to Payne's Gray): Kelu and the Moon Goddess.
More fun with colored pencils. Micah in front of a fortress like the one I imagine from the song, 'North Point'.
Woops! I'm not hiding, really, I just keep losing my Yerf password. :) Anyway, a couple of kirin-like types. "To Outlast Eternity," gouache.
I decided to do a poster for small businesses to hang ... turns out people wanted to buy them. Whatever the case, certainly my nicest color pencil piece to date. If you want to see a larger version (more detail!) check out: www.stardancer.org/poster.phtml
Last in my Bard-Healer-Queen series of Primary Aspects. Has some good points and some bad... the background was a good exercise for me.
'Queen and Ringtail'. Just wanted to do simple black and white piece. This one was also for a friend who likes dragons and ringtails.
This is my painting style, which unfortunately doesn't lend itself well to representational work unless it's at a rather large size. Oil paints for this one.
'Thy Seal to My Heart'. A gift for a friend after many long hours of pleasant roleplaying. The snow leopard in the front is his character. After hours spent planning the color balance on this one, I said I'd never do it again. A month later, I had my hands full of pencils again. Oh well! (Daelin copyright M. Fannin, Ardith copyright myself).
More watercolor madness, dragons this time. No, it's not airbrushed for Yerf-friendliness... she's a she.
Been a while since I uploaded, but I liked this color sketch of Angharad the griffin as a youth so I thought I'd send it up. Writing her story on Livejournal is fun so far. :)
Maggie C. A. Hogarth (Micah)