My Bluebell

Beena my love as a Celtic Queen, she loves Magpies (two for joy) and bluebells.

New things

Been working on some new pieces for an exhibition I plan to have. All related to Celtic mythology in some way or other.

The hound and the bull

I'v been trying to come up with an idea for the upcoming Islander Art exhibit. So far the only thing I like is a picture of Cuchullain having killed his friend Ferdia, those of you up on your Irish mythology will know the story of course : )
After a whole bunch of sketches I'm getting happier with this image

This is one I did real quick in photoshop just to play with the colours. The shape of the overall image is based on a celts shield and I prefer the idea of showing just the hand to leave the viewer to figure it out rather than having the body float away, which is how I had it originally.

Whiskers

Good oul whiskers.
Made up Celt painted for the epic moustache and judging by that hair... because he's worth it

Painted over the course of a day in photoshop cs5 with a wacom

Oisín the poet

 

Oisín (pronounced ush - een, for those non Irish amongst ye) was the son of Fionn, I drew him already remember. Oisín's story is the saddest of all of them, a sorry end to a great warrior poet. If you want to know more about him you may as well buy a few books and get to reading because there are a lot of different versions of what happened to him, my personal preference is in Lady Gregory's Irish Mythology, my bible. But if you dont want to go to any trouble, check him out on wikipedia link Now they say on there that his son Osgar or Oscar was born and raised on Tir na nÓg, but in most stories he grew up in Ireland and was a member of the Fianna, so I dont know. Its all very confusing

Cúchullain again

The greatest warrior of all time, Cúchullain, the hound of Ulster.
He was never a King in life, but in the tale of his death a prophecy is made that on that day 3 kings would die, it is explained to Queen Mebd the three kings were Cúchullain, the king of warriors, Laeg his friend and the king of charioteers and Macha the grey, Cúchullain's horse, the king of horses who went on to kill another hundred or so warriors even after Cúchullain died. I shall do them two next.
After giving Fionn in the previous piece a big giant sword, I thought the savage Cúchullain would be better shown with just bloody fists.
In all the books on Irish myth that I'v read, there has never been a very accurate description of what Cú looks like, even though everyone else is described in great detail. But of the fleeting descriptions, they normally say he was small and of a grim countenance with dark hair.

A couple of Queens

An update on the lovely pirate captain and a drawing of Boudicca being worshipped, for no reason other than it popped into my head whilst listening to a song about her

Whilst Im here

A couple sketches while Im here also, buffy and a celt