hmpf: Cole and Ramse from the show not actually called "Splinter" (Default)
hmpf ([personal profile] hmpf) wrote2009-02-19 06:01 am
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More spam! Less sleep!

[livejournal.com profile] nager recently asked for more art. So, here's more ancient Hmpf art.

Another strongly celtic inspired one.

Shameless historical eclecticism

The Big One. Took one year to paint. Colours didn't come out very well in the scan. And it's so large I had to scan it in two parts, and I couldn't be bothered to find out how to use Paintshop properly, so what you get instead is just the two scans cropped to vaguely the same size, on a web page. All that yellow, btw? Is gold. As in, *real* gold. This painting cost me a fortune...

Detail from the above, slightly larger, so you can see some of the finer details.

All of this, btw, was done with a brush. Yes, even the tiny dots and lines everywhere. I never used a pen; just insanely tiny brushes. For the dots I cut off the tip of one of those brushes.

[identity profile] nick-101.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Those are great art. :)

Thanks!

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I miss it, but then I remind myself that I don't even find the time to make jewellery as often as I should, so where am I going to find time for taking up painting again...

Wow!

(Anonymous) 2009-02-19 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Soviel Geduld möchte ich auch mal haben! Ich ziehe den Hut *tiefe Verbeugung*
Kiki

Re: Wow!

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Dankeschön!

>Soviel Geduld möchte ich auch mal haben!

... sagt die Frau von der Scherbenfront... ;-)

[identity profile] dune-drd.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, wirklich toll!

Danke!

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Im Original sieht das alles noch etwas besser aus. Ich bin keine Meisterin von Scanner und Bildbearbeitung... die Farben der Scans sind irgendwie alle etwas daneben.

Re: Danke!

[identity profile] dune-drd.livejournal.com 2009-02-28 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Du zeichnest nicht zufällig noch? Ich suche nämlich immer noch ein gutes Tattoo Design...

[identity profile] jantalaimon.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy crap, Hmpf! You're amazing! :O

Wow.

*has had her tiny mind shattered*

Ah, come on!

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of this was cribbed from a variety of books about medieval book illumination. *g* I creatively recombined the elements, of course...

[identity profile] mjlaw.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
ia, you're amazing.

Thanks!

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not so amazing anymore, though: haven't done anything like this for, oh, eleven or twelve years. It was a phase in my late teens/early twenties. Yeah, I know. Other people do their wildest partying at that age. Me? I went and pretended I was a nun in a medieval scriptorium. *snerk*

[identity profile] space-oddity-75.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, those are fantastic! You're a true artist. You should do this for a living...

Naaaaah.

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Nobody would buy these for the kinds of prices I'd have to take...