BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Drawings and paintings

**Posted by ArwendeLuhtiene** August 12, 2014 10:20 pm

Great work, everyone! I love drawing and painting, although I can rarely find time for it. I took oil painting classes during high school, but I considermyself an amateur, with lots to learn yet.

I'm uploading my past and present work to DeviantArt (I have more photography deviations than drawings for now, though): http://arwendeluhtiene.deviantart.com/
I do more sketches and doodles than actual drawings or paintings, partly because I'm such a perfectionistic a full-fledged drawing/painting takes forever, and partly because I haven't enough time for more serious projects (currrently struggling to finish a comission while working for my master's project, and there's another trade waitingas well). I favour Tolkien Elves, Celtic women, warrior-women, Sherlock and LOTR stuff, horses and landscapes.

A selection...(sorry for the huge pics, I still don't know how to make DevArt images smaller in forums...so here are the pics big as houses that the OP was talking about! :o)
-Barn owl (watercolour, inks)

A Celtic warrior-woman:

-Galadriel

-And Nazgûl (oils) ...and wow, these look ginormous...sorry again!

Waiting forward to see more of your art!

Will try to resize my pics, these look ridiculously big!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** August 13, 2014 1:56 pm

WOW Arwende, those are really, really good! I really like the owl and the Nazgûl! Very nicely done!

**Posted by ArwendeLuhtiene** August 13, 2014 11:55 pm

Aww, thank you, Phantom !

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 4, 2015 7:47 pm

I found this one on New Years Eve... the dog was scared and wanted to hide in a cupboard (which I allowed him to so I had to empty it for all the stuff mum kept there...) amongst the stuff I found this. I must have been around 10 when I made it...

it's a porcelain tile... must be from my porcelain painting classes in school.

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2015 8:44 pm

I love Pinnochio!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 19, 2015 11:42 pm

I got to see The Imitation Game today... and I've been shocked to the core.
My friend and I are usually not able to shut up around each other but the walk home was done in silence, tears dripping from our eyes.

I painted this tonight, after I came home. I know it's not good or anything (And Alan would probably be appalled that the colours touch and even mix. My OCD isn't happy either...)

"Bloody Rainbows"

**Posted by batchlock** January 24, 2015 12:45 am

I love that the colours mix, even my OCD likes it. It gives the painting more life, it feels more real thanks to that. I really like that painting Phantom!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** May 7, 2015 4:14 pm

I painted this the other day listening to 'Bittersweet' by Zac Brown Band... it hit me hard...

Usually when I paint I have an idea when I start but this time I let the brush work on it's own and I had no idea it was going to be a landscape (or a pair of loafers, according to my mum)

(sorry my home is such a mess!)

And I painted this for New Doctor Who's 10th anniversary...

The vortex and the windows are actually painted with glitter water colours so the light catches the sparkles.

I just relax so much when I paint!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** July 28, 2016 6:08 pm

Well, my mum's aunt has her 80th Birthday tomorrow... and I decided to paint her a card instead of buying one...

Well this is what I ended up with... and yeah... I suppose it could have been better

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIaal5Sjl_1/
(and yes, that is my Instagram)

**Posted by besleybean** July 29, 2016 8:00 am

I am so glad you posted this, as it reminds me.
My cousin Marie( pronounced 'marry') is very arty and she always makes cards. She always puts on the back: by 'Mariarty', which I just think is the coolest thing ever!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** July 29, 2016 8:23 am

Thanks, and aw that's so awesome! Now I wish my name was Marie! lol, my name is a form of that name... darn it.