This is a little river faerie, contented to live and play among the critters and foliage by the water, as it trickles along. Isn't she just the cutest?
This is the second painting in my new Faerie series. It's painted in oils on an 18" x 24" canvass.
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A curious Faerie is in Barrie's own Sunnidale Park, peeking through the trees at me. She'd seen me pick up a pile of discarded flyers and take them home earlier in the week. I don't like it when people damage and mess up my beautiful park. I look a bit like the 1967 Big Foot on that old film footage from California don’t I?
This is the first painting in my new Faerie series. It's painted in oils on an 18" x 24" canvas.
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Linda Laforge creates vibrant faerie and mystical paintings. She is currently creating a new batch of Faerie Paintings. Each one is focused on a specific emotion. Within each you will get a close-up of a Faerie simply being herself or himself, surrounded by thier natural world and the abundance of life they so cherish.
You will soon see Unicorns and Dragons and all of the mythical beings of Celtic Foldlore.
Linda is using oil on canvas. "I love the vibrant and richness I can get out of this medium," Linda says. "I haven't used oils since I was a kid. The solvents gave me really bad exzema on my hands so I was forced to stop. I'm now using water soluble paint. and I'm loving it. It took me a few paintings to re-learn the art, but I am enjoying it and hope you do too."
Linda's Celtic Knotwork Design and Illustration
Linda hand draws all of her knotwork designs. She is inspired by Courtney Davis and Archibald Knox for their fluidity of design, appreciation of form and knowledge of celtic knotwork.
When designing knotwork and frames Linda scribbles her design out in pencil until it's perfect. She uses tracing paper to duplicate repeat portions of her knots. It's then traced over in ink. These designs are not only used as stand-alone pieces, but are often also used in her illustrations.
Most of the stand-alone designs are completed on her Mac, in Photoshop. She wants them to reproduce sharply and brightly. When illustrating Linda preferes to use acrylic paints on illustration board. That's where she marries many of her frames with illustrations of celtic lore and myth.
"They're not as vibrant, but they are a different sort of beast than an oil painting," She says. "I feel more like I can design in an illustration. When I'm painting in oils I tend to focus too much on realism. I'm working at developing my style, rather than reality, there as well."
