Day 82: Old inspiration

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

I wanted to do something Viking Age style, and here it is
, somewhat inspired by the so called "Mammen style". (Which you can read more about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammen_style and see a pic of here: http://www.wadbring.com/historia/undersidor/leksberg.htm#mammen

Day 36: In the eye of the dragon

Created in Artrage 2.5 and openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

This image is inspired by an image found on: http://www.wadbring.com/historia/sidor/skepp.htm which is a Swedish site about history (has got a lot of info on the Viking time, only in Swedish however, so unless you know Swedish you'll have to look at the pictures and use your imagination ;) ).

I began by doing a pencil sketch in Artrage and then moved on to openCanvas to color it and add the background.

Day 22: Drinking horns

Created in openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

One thing is for sure, the most important thing in art is to be able to see. This, and many of the other paintings, begun as just a few lines which I though looked like something, in this case Viking era drinking horns, and which I then "made visible". This is not to be seen as an endorsement of irresponsible drinking of course ;) (The horns are empty after all).