|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
Welcome to my personal art blog. Here you'll find my latest news and fantasy art updates for a range of works including my Seashell Mermaids, Fantasy Book Cover Art, Dragon Eggs, Mini Plush Pillow Fairy Dolls and Handpainted Wood Cuff Statement Bracelets. I use a range of traditional media, including colour pencils, graphite, acrylic paint and watercolour pencils to create my traditional fantasy art, and Adobe Photoshop for digital art. My art has been featured in several group fantasy art exhibitions and I have also sold my prints and originals at local community markets and at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair. To contact the me, please email: I'm currently on Maternity Leave and all art commissions are closed. Please check back periodically for updates. My artwork is also on display in the Australian Fantasy Art Enclave gallery: Note to all visitors to this site: All artworks on this site are copyright Anne-Marie Broughton. Do not copy, paste, alter, link to, use, edit or in any way reproduce any artwork from this site without prior permission from the artist. This site does not allow pinning to Pinterest. Please click on the Shop button above, or one of the thumbnails below, to see my stuff for sale! |
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
| Fantasy & Sci Fi Art Exhibition | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| I'll be taking part in a group Fantasy Art exhibition, opening on 26th May, it's being held at the Institute Building on the corner of Kintore Avenue and North Terrace in Adelaide. | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| The Last of Her Kind | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| She was the Last of Her Kind, a princess travelling suspended in sleep across deep space, whilst her home world perished behind her, waiting to reach a new planet to call home. Digital artwork completed in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom drawing tablet, Inspired by the character of Vitora from the novel Defenders of Rades by author Carol Blackhurst. | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Set of 3 Flower Fairy miniature framed art prints now available in my Etsy shop - Pink Tulip Fairy, Iris Fairy and French Rose Fairy. Prints are from my original pencil drawings. They wear fresh flower petal dresses and have pop up 3D butterfly wings. Each wooden frame is handpainted in white and distressed to give it that shabby chic look. A 3mm wide white satin ribbon is attached for hanging. Perfect as a door hanger or door sign or as wall art for a baby nursery or girl's room. | ||||||
| Mermaid Bangle | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| I just finished painting an OOAK wood mermaid bangle/bracelet in acrylic paint and lacquered with a clear varnish. This is now available to buy from my Etsy shop. | ||||||
| Snow Maiden Plush Pillow Doll Design - Prototype 1 | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| I'm currently perfecting the design of the pattern for my Snow Maiden plush pillow doll (above left), this is the first test doll but it will need to be tweaked to allow more width. | ||||||
| Hatching Dragon Eggs - Deluxe Edition | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
![]() |
||||||
![]() |
||||||
| I am currently working on a new batch of hatching dragon eggs which will be a "Deluxe" edition, individually gift boxed in mini wooden treasure chests, including a mini map of Northlundaria, Certificate of Authenticity and fold out dragon-foundling story. Above is the graphic for the water dragon literature. Below is the miniature map of Northlundaria (inspired by the style of the Game of Thrones maps). | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Dragons & Knights | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| A work in progress for a Dragons & Knights playmat design, inspired by Game of Thrones. This is one quarter of the overall map design (Marcolline section). The mythical location for this map is Northlundaria and the region is Edenborne and is based on my own fictional fantasy back-story. | ||||||
| Hatching Dragon Eggs - Fire Dragon & Shadow Dragon | ||||||
![]() ![]() |
||||||
|
There are six different
hatching dragon eggs: Fire Dragon, Storm Dragon, Earth Dragon, Shadow
Dragon, Water Dragon & Green Dragon. Each dragon egg has been hand
decorated and hand painted with non-toxic acrylic paints and they all have a
very scaly/dragony/metallic appearance. The colours of each egg vary
depending on what dragon hatchling is inside. All dragon hatchlings
are molded from durable vinyl plastic and are a suitable toy for children 3
years or older (not recommended for very young children due to the smallness
of the toy). Each one comes nestled in a clear gift box and includes a
Certificate of Authenticity, some notes on Dragon Care and a short story
describing the discovery of the "Lost Dragons of Northlundaria". "In the Midwinter Year of 112, Rhidion Wildehunter set out from his castle at Ardenmuir in Edenborne on a quest to find the lost dragons of Northlundaria...." Some notes on Caring for Your Dragon: "Your
dragon egg may hatch at any time so keep it in a safe place, away from any
pets or very young children. Young dragons like to bask in the sunshine for
at least a few minutes each day and can forage for their own food in your
garden. Dragons grow extremely slowly and don’t reach their full adult size
for more than 100 years." |
||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Snow Gnome Globe | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Rainbow Gnome Globe | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Twinkle Star Gnome Globe | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| The Little Mermaid and the Golden Trochus Shell | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Jade Turbo Shell Mermaid | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| The Owl and the Pussycat | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| The Tortoise and the Hare | ||||||
![]() |
||||||
| Featured Artwork - Wisdom Crieth Without Magazine | ||||||
|
Anne-Marie's artwork, 'Flower
Girl' has been featured in the online writer's magazine 'Wisdom Crieth
Without' along with a wonderful poem by writer Conrad Geller. To read their latest issue, go to: http://www.wisdomcriethwithout.com/wisdom-crieth-without-issue-4/6/
|
||||||
| Book Cover Commission Art | ||||||
![]()
I have recently completed a full wrap-around book cover art commission for author Carol Blackhurst's upcoming publication "Healers of Rades", which is the second book in the Rades series. This book cover commission was drawn using a Wacom tablet in Adobe Photoshop and features a swampy scene from the book, and a magical leaf pendant with an alien frog-like creature. Anne-Marie also created the book cover artwork for the first book in the Rades series "Defenders of Rades".
|
||||||
| The Mermaid Mirror | ||||||
|
||||||
|
I recently completed this personal artwork entitled "The Mermaid Mirror" using tea-stained watercolour paper, acrylics, Derwent Artists Colour pencils and Derwent Watercolour pencils. The Mermaid Mirror Beneath the waves And by her mermaid mirror
she sways Oh what does she see? © Anne-Marie Broughton 2011 |
||||||
| The Little Mermaid and The Seahorse | ||||||
|
||||||
| This is a personal artwork (in progress) of a little girl mermaid spending some magical time with her seahorse. | ||||||
|
Paua Shell
Mermaid Sketchbook This week I have begun the initial sketches for a new mermaid artwork, this one based on a New Zealand Paua Shell. As with all my sketches I start off with a mechanical pencil and my trusty eraser. |
|
|||||
|
Stage 1 - Inspiration This Paua Shell was a recent purchase from the Australian Seashells online store and has a gorgeous blue and green swirling iridescent sheen. Initially my thoughts were to draw a mermaid curled around the outside of the Paua Shell.
|
|
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
Stage 2 - Initial Sketches After finding further inspiration from IStockPhoto online (a great place to purchase stock images at reasonable prices: www.istockphoto.com ), a pose was decided upon - the mermaid is sitting atop the Paua Shell looking upwards. Her tail is curled in a flowing circular fashion, giving the mermaid a more unique appearance than traditional mermaids. The long flowing tail is based on a fancy goldfish tail and also adds more movement to the piece. |
|
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
Close up
showing mermaid in detail At the moment it's reminding me of a Japanese Koi Fish tattoo... Because this is just a rough graphite sketch, without any colour, there are many options ahead for this artwork, with a possible embossed aluminium metal version with a real mounted shell on the drawing board!
|
|
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Jade Turbo Shell Mermaid
Sketchbook I have put together some photographs and scans of my latest artwork in progress "Jade Turbo Shell Mermaid" so you can see the process of development from idea through to (almost) finished colour pencil drawing. Colour pencil drawing is a time consuming process with as many as half a dozen different coloured pencils required for each part of the drawing. Each drawing starts with a graphite pencil sketch phase to develop the outlines for the final full colour picture. I also often combine metallic pens and metallic acrylics with my colour pencil drawings. |
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
Stage 1 - Inspiration The process for creating my artworks starts with inspiration from a real seashell, this Jade Turbo Shell has quite an aqua/turquoise colour with strong chocolate brown stripes and lighter, almost golden flecks. Each shell is unique and has its own colour, shape and texture. This particular shell has been polished so it has a lovely smooth sheen and it's approximately 7cm in diameter. |
|||||
|
Stage 2 - Initial Sketches I experiment with drawing the shell first from a few different angles until I am happy with the angle chosen. This time I decided upon a frontal view of the shell spirals with the opening of the shell facing the top of the page, allowing the shell mermaid to uncurl from above, to create a contrast to my Nautilus Shell Mermaid, where the shell is facing the opposite direction and the mermaid is uncurling from below. In the sketching phase I played around with different curves of her back, hair and arm positions until I was happy with the flow of the overall piece. The idea was to have the curve of her spine follow the outer curve of the shell, giving the two elements a circular flow. This flow is then carried on into her long slightly wavy hair, which adds extra movement and softness to the piece. At this point I scanned in the rough sketch and traced the basic outlines onto a fresh piece of paper to begin the final colour pencil drawing. |
|||||
|
Stage 3 - Starting the Final Drawing Using a selection of different colour pencils I lightly sketched in the colour outlines for the shell and the mermaid, focussing more on the skin tones for the mermaid and completing her face and hair before moving onto the more detailed design of the shell itself. I outlined the spiral in the centre of the shell using a metallic gold pen which will give the final picture an added golden sheen. |
|||||
|
Stage 4 - Working towards Completion Using darker browns, greys and blues to add some shadow around the mermaid and the shell gives the picture more depth. |
|||||
|
Close up
showing different colours used To blend some of the turquoise and green colours together and blend out some of the natural "rough" colour pencil texture you get from working on cartridge paper, I use a white Derwent colour pencil, which has a more "waxy" texture and smoothes out the colours and blends better. |
|||||
|
Close up of the mermaid There are half a dozen different colours used to create the skin tone, including pinks, purples, browns and oranges. |
|||||
|
Looking
to Buy Shells? |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
All
artwork on this site is ©Copyright Anne-Marie Broughton.
|
||||||