Jenny Dolfen

Glorfindel matted

I got these little mats from the same seller that sells those double mats - they add that little extra! The rose is from our garden - my husband grows those beautiful English roses. This is a "Lady Hamilton". It smells of oranges! @_@

Welcome to new Patron Julie, and welcome ...

Finished Glorfindel

Here's finished Glorfindel! This colour gradient thing is so lovely - a lot more of that to come, surely! I have four more Order of the Dragon rewards to paint. ^^ Let's see if I can find more excuses for flowing locks. 

Painted while listening to Neil Gaiman reading his own "Norse Mythology"...

Glorfindel in progress

Laying down a first wash on Glorfindel. I'm going to use a similar colourcolor gradient/monochrome look on him as I did on my last piece; I really love that effect. 

Order of the Dragon reward: Glorfindel

Here's the beginning of Vivienne's Order of the Dragon reward piece! I hope to complete the others over the rest of the month! 

Welcome to new Patrons Mary and GR! :D

While my guitar gently weeps (finished)

Jan.
Watercolour on Canson Héritage paper cold-pressed, 21x30 cm. 

I miss you.

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps 

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Little matted originals for you!

Going out to you faithful guys next week! <3 

Merfolk

More merfolk that I'm going to drop on social media over the next few days. And that I'm going to drop in the mail to a lot of faithful Patrons soon, too! 

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Mermaids

Here are the little matted watercolour drawing thingies that I'm doing for the Order of the Swallow patrons - just in time for almost-Mermay, too. Plus, I'm incorporating some suggestion box ideas with these, finally.

Mermaids are wonderfully relaxing to draw. Their anatomy just can't go wrong. (T...

Little things, waiting.

I've been preparing these little matted minis for the (new and old) 20$+ supporters, and plan to do little drawings on them. Art has just become a very secondary thing though, as my brother is in hospital again with his cancer, and things don't look good at all. The final English exams are tomorrow,...

New Patreon tiers and rewards for old faithful friends

The higher tiers are back! You'll remember that when we started this journey (with a lot of you already on board!), Patreon was pretty new and I didn't have a clue what I was doing.  You remember that I offered a lot in those early days, and had to reduce it because it was just too much!  ...

They're on Etsy! :)

For those of you who missed the pre-order, here they are! 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/607185765/99-noldo-shirt

Your Etsy codes apply! If you've forgotten yours, you can find it 2018-04-14 09:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Video request - suggestions!

So, as promised for that milestone goal we've reached, here's where we look for ideas for a video that you can choose!

Two things that have been suggested recently: 

1) A talk about influences, and the progression of my art. 

2) A "Why watercolour is so hard" video, a.k.a. "T...

What I've been doing all day...

I've folded a hundred t-shirts and packaged them for you, and they'll be going out to you over the next two days! <3 

If you receive a package in which I've made a mistake (wrong size etc) just let me know, and I'll correct it. I have double checked and triple-checked every order, but just...

Five-minute Goldberry scribble

Here's Sophia's idea from the suggestion box! I know I said just portraits... but I so wanted to do one of "Goldberry's washing day". I'm likely to turn this into a full painting! :) 

Odd Fae cards finished!

Whew - this one again took days to complete in the end! I'm still quite early with these - the deadline for the card game is late May, but I figured it was a good idea to finish them before marking season.Still wondering if I should offer prints as sets of two, or as the complete image.

2018-04-11 10:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Button Unboxing!

These came out so neat! 

Look forward to these with your t-shirt orders! <3 

2018-04-09 15:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Painting bronze armour

A little demonstration of the bronze armour in my latest piece, as requested by Frank! Let me know if you find this helpful. :)

Bronze!

Okay, I apologize to all Noldorin princes who will have to endure bronze armour for years to come. SO PRETTY, and so much fun to paint! 

Fun tidbit: I've taken to listening to audiobooks while painting, and I've always been amused by how listening to a particular bit of text while painting a ...

Okay, question...

Unboxing videos. Funny? Teenage? Silly?

I'm asking because of certain buttons and tee-shirts set to arrive over the next week... ^____^

Fae in shining armour

Here's the Seelie King underway in his shiny bronze armour! 

The complete piece now looks like this. I'm starting to love it more and more. 

Suggestion box April!

Back with the suggestions! Any ideas for quick April sketches? Mainly character portraits this month, I'd say! 

The Wand of Shrikes - progress

Finally getting some more work done on this! 

Detail shot of the Unseelie King: 

This just came in from the T-shirt printer...

... asking whether they should go ahead with the printing. Go ahead, I say! =) 

I'm extremely happy to say that the preorders paid for the entire print run of about eighty shirts (almost half of them your preorders) - I'd never expected for this to be so popular, haha! Can't wait to get the h...

Video poll

Thanks a lot for your insights about video-watching! You'd help me a bunch if you'd just add your voice to this poll, to help me see how you all feel about videos. They're the single most time-intensive thing I'm doing (apart from art, hee) and to know more about this would be immensely helpful.&nbs...

New goal added!

Either Patreon is playing an April Fool's on me, or we have somehow inched close to $600 over the last week! 

So here's a new goal - I have noticed that my videos are hardly watched, and would like to hear what you would like to see in a video. Feel free to throw some ideas at me already, so ...

Something's coming with your T-shirts...

There have been so many preorders (I thought ten would be nice; now we have twenty!) that I decided to throw in a little extra with each order. Here's a little teaser! (Not so teasery for the Germans, haha.) 

New Patron shoutout! Welcome, Pauline Loquin! =)

In progress: Wand cards

As you can see, I'm doing both cards on the same paper, to be scanned/used separately. 

I'm also back to my silly old cheap Canson watercolour paper, and I'm loving it so much. Just today, I read about someone calling Arches paper "the Cadillac among watercolour papers". To extend th...

Shirts!! =D

Ha! Those shirts turned out extra lovely - the printing is just spot on! 

Soooo, here's the Patreon-exclusive deal! I've designed them in three types: Women's fitted, women's loose-fitting...

The Wand of Swallows - lineart

And here's the King of the Seelie Court. I'm glad my daughter was able to pick out which was good and which was bad. "Who am I supposed to root for? Hmmm... I like both. Both have birds. But those have bones. And thorns. So this one's the good ones?"

Hooray for a well-versed allegorical education....