Fairies in the Modern World

These are line drawings I made after Freddie Mercury's colour illustrations - three more to go. To be published with my essay from 1999 (Fairies in the Modern World, currently lost) which I am currently rewriting to include both my initial framework and new developments.

Making drawings after another artist gets me inside their head as much as the drawing itself contains, and I notice that artists always put a little bit of themselves into their character designs.

My contour line is inspired by traditional cartoons, where it delineates the character from its environment and acts as a  symbol for the sense of touch.

Christmas 1991

Concept: Make your own Christmas Tree picture (2nd grade Drawing class). The bride wearing red and purple travelling inside a transparent glass box was my ideal (imaginary) Christmas present, and the book titles are "Fairytales" and "Prose". 

Technique: Watercolour & Tempera.   

Ma'at

Concept: Ma'at is the Egyptian concept of Balance, or Justice, and plays an important part in the "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The feather represents the standard used to measure how light- or heavy-hearted a person is. Even the Gods and Goddesses must be grounded in Ma'at. The ancient meaning of this ceremony was lost to literalization. It used to mean weighing a person's conceptions combined with their deeds, and the result propelled them upward or downward in their quality of experience. This does not solely happen upon death, but is a constant process.

Technique: I made this traditional Egyptian mural at a smaller scale, using most of the same ingredients that Egyptians would have used, and the grid-enlarging technique. Reference books and basic training were provided by The New Acropolis.