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An assignment for Applied Drawing Technique class - illustrate a childrens book/fairytale. I chose the russian folk story of The firebird, cos its not that well known, but I read it as a kid, and have been meaning to do some illustrations for it for a while now.
Anyway, we had to do it in watercolour, and pen and ink - which I was a bit apprehensive about cos I havnt touched watercolours in a long time and I know that they can go horribly wrong, but I'm pretty pleased with this.
So its 81/2 by 11 inches. About 4 hours of work I think.
inspired by great illustrators such as Ivan Bilibin and Arthur Rackham

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:iconjezhawk:
thanks :)

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:iconsandyprints:
this is lovely for a childrens book.... Perhaps the book your grandad did for you should be a project .. i still want to publish it.....

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:iconjezhawk:
yup - its on my to do list - whenever I get the time ...plus I'm not so good at drawing full figures people...have to work on that :)

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:iconcardowl:
Oh, how beautiful!

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Che filosofo buffon! /In che misero grotton/ Sempre in gran meditazion /Vaneggiando se ne sta!
-Salieri, "La Ra La"
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
:iconjezhawk:
thanks - and thanks for the fav :hug:

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:iconcardowl:
:) No problem at all! It's a great pic! :hug:

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Che filosofo buffon! /In che misero grotton/ Sempre in gran meditazion /Vaneggiando se ne sta!
-Salieri, "La Ra La"
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
:iconfreespirit2moon:
The water colours are amaizing, I really like this piece I have great respect for anyone who can do a bit of water colouring, so kudos to you for such a whimisical piece, and I am now going to look up the story because I am intrigued.

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"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. . . . Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl

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:iconjezhawk:
teehee, thanks. Its a good fairytale, I'm hoping to do more illustrations from it.

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