Pencil on Paper, Watercolor & Gouache. A version of " The Muse of Magic " in the Oracleia.

This is a piece that is still waiting for completion...

The goddess of decisions - sumi ink painting The Muse of decisions  indicates that there is no "right" or "wrong" decision here. It is rather the act itself of making a decision that is right in that moment. She holds two keys, one of each that opens a possible alternative reality that opens behind her gateway, unified only in the center of her holy place.

No Scetches were done for this one. Sometimes I am not in the mood for "planning" my works... It´s more the way of "natural growing", with all the mistakes that may happen that I like. So I started with a "wild" layer of traditional japanese Sumi Ink, and then try to "see" the picture. You don´t know were you are about to going with this method, but sometimes it works... just go with the flow... Here are some work in progress images.I choose this as a cover for my very first

Finally I did it. This picture was a lot of work, even if it may not look so. There are lots and lots of layers of soft grey washes done here. It may not reach the hundred-mark, but I am sure there are about 60-80 layers. For those who are interested in, I managed to remind my self of taking some work in progress pictures... so here they are: Here you can see... almost nothing. But a thing you can notice is how fine chinese rice paper is. It really is nearly about transparent

After a while, not being able to paint, I decided to finish this pice : Like most pictures I do this time, there was no sketch for this one... Unfortunately, I did no earlier picture of this painting. I just forget about that, while I am painting :(   Have to think about next time… I did a rough and wet in wet wash, for getting some texture and than try to see the ready painting in this… After being so far, I found the yellow a little bit too light, and the moon to less in co