I love to create, primarily with words. I am a writer who also paints. I work in watercolors and digital formats, sometimes mixing them. Most of my recent artwork has a sea theme, which comes out of my fiction writing over the last three years. There are particular themes I enjoy studying and expressing, the ocean as a source of life and dark forests.
She's the third sister from my novel Seaborn, last in the water, the one who would rather not go under the sea. She's the really neat one, if there's a hair out of place it's on purpose. She's showing off some of her powers here, the surface world with the sun in her right hand, the sea and abyss in her left. (She's pushing that one down). The question is which one is she going to choose--or was her choice made for her? And then there's all the trouble--you know, death, assassins, small armies, monsters from the deep--gathering momentum against her sisters and her family, which may influence her decision.
This is a scene I will almost certainly never write, but the topic for this week's Illustration Friday is "wedding." I probably wouldn't have painted this scene either. This is Zypheria and Michael Henderson, two of my characters who fall in love, but off the page, on the sidelines, in Seaborn. They're both minor characters, but the assumption is that they will marry at some point. Both from different worlds. I figured a wedding at the bottom of the sea wouldn't be something to miss.
