Death in the Forest [art post]

or A TRIBUTE TO ALECTOR 11”x14” watercolor and ink, 2014-2015 • Print Available! • Click for full view. Original is for sale! Drop me a line if interested. A personal piece I sketched out almost a year ago, which I’ve been nursing along ever since. Unlike many of my works, this one’s meaning changed a …

Woman of Thunder [art post]

© Goldeen Ogawa 2015. WIP shots on Tumblr, print available here! Raise your sword up, woman of thunder ’cause they’ll try to take you down tonight Get your arms up, girl of wonder you gotta chase ’em down before they fly A personal piece I’ve been working on, on and off (but mostly off) since September …

Gildenvern [art post]

Gildenvern  • Personal Work, 2015 • Print available! This piece began as a test for me to practice gold leafing techniques with Sophie Klesen (AKA SoMK) at World Con last year, in London. I had a great time and learned a lot, but never got around to finishing it… until one afternoon, partially driven by not having …

Ligno and Ferro [art post]

Last year I was commissioned to do a series of Elemental Horses based on the four classical Greek elements. Ignis (fire), Aura (air), Aqua (water), and Terra (earth). They were themselves done in the style of my Planet Horses (Jupiter, Saturn, Ouranos and Neptune) from 2013. This year, I’m revisiting both series, beginning with the addition of the two missing …

Mother Chaos [art post]

Mother Chaos – colored pencil • personal work • PRINT AVAILABLE HERE The Greater Demon Fairig as she is depicted in her capacity as the creator-god, Mother Chaos, who brought the wild energy of the void into the world and triggered the first explosion of proto-life. Although she is nominally considered a benevolent deity, Fairig’s maternal instincts are …

Progression of Subject 0-D

These are (rather bad) progress pictures of the frontispiece illustration for “Subject 0-D,” the second half of the two-parter Professor Odd season 1 finale, “The Monster’s Daughter.” Below, you can see the cleaned-up pencils with early shading, the rendered image, and lastly the finished piece alongside the print-out guide I used as a reference for the …

Escape from the Celestial Palace [art post]

My first original piece in a while, this was a lot of fun to do—and a great relief to find I can still do delicate, time-consuming watercolors, after having spent the better part of the last two years slaving away at Year of the God-Fox. This painting inspired a little snippet of a story (see below), which …