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December 18, 2010
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Medium: Watercolor
Size: 12x17 inches
Closeup details here: [link]
Prints and original here: [link]
Related Blog posts with sketches here: [link] , [link] , and [link]


Cover for Iron Khan by Liz Williams, to be published by Morrigan Books within the next month. The floating city of Agarta in the distance.
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~Tsubaki-chan-san May 14, 2013  New member Hobbyist General Artist
very beautiful !!
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~Adonael Jan 7, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
I love the colours of the bird and the winged figure is stunning :O
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:iconwolfofdesire:
wow
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:iconxenodraco:
What color it the brown of the dunes? Love your work, you have to inspired me to use watercolors again.
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:iconpuimun:
*puimun Oct 19, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Naples Yellow mostly.
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~Lunael Sep 3, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Very nice! An amazing cover for a book...
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:iconvampyre-lover:
A Stunning Masterpiece!!!
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Mood: Love ~Lonemtnwolf Feb 7, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Your artwork is always breathtaking. :)
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:iconwordsmith7:
Hello!
I don't know much about art, but I had a question about the composition of this beautiful piece. I would expect the spire of the building to be centered in the middle of the moon, but it isn't (obviously :P). My question is, why? I am only curious, but without the spire centered so that it is directly in the middle of the moon, this has a very different feel (to me anyways).
Just wondering, and nice job :)
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*puimun Jan 25, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
I don't like to have complete symmetry in my pieces. For a couple of reasons

- If you're going for symmetry, and it's not EXACT, then it is very obvious and achieves the opposite effect that you're going for - which is it that it makes a piece look out of balance.

- I find symmetry to be boring (most of the time). I like the skew and twist that asymmetry provides instead.

- It gives a piece much more flow and helps the composition move, because when something is mirrored and centered, the movement is killed. I wanted movement in this, flowing up from the woman and bird, through the other smaller birds and the city.
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