Veil of Night

Veil of Night

Prints available: 8.5x11 inch ($16.95), 11x17 inch ($26.50)
Original Painting ($1695.00)

Size: 15.5x16.7 inches

Medium: Watercolors & ink

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Nyx drawing her veil across the world.

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Some of the in-progress scans and photos:

 Initial scribbles in my sketchbook from a while back.

 Started with a base layer of texture. Only some of the birds were sketched out. The rest of them I just tried to pull out from the ink/watercolor splatter texture of the background so that they evolved more organically out of the painting.

 More birds.

 And more birds.

 Started onto Nyx. Bright blue for a little contrast, but still blending her vels and skirts out into the surrounding darkness.

 And finally the sleeping town below. Started with a base wash with wet-in-wet dotting of some purple tones into the gold.

 Refined the details.

Added more birds in the upper parts and finished up.