Comments on: A Frolic in the midnight midsummer moonlight

By: Carter

Carter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:33:14 +0000

Just got my copy of Realms of Fantasy and saw you were the featured artist. I wasn’t sure that we both had wasted space at Glass until I saw your picture in the previous entry. Browsed your site and it is absolutely fantastic. I look forward to your new book, hopefully as a winter solstice present. Congratulations on your life’s work so far. Making it out of Glass alive as an artist was no mean accomplishment in and of itself (so many didn’t, sigh).

By: warble

warble — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:34:48 +0000

Man, where in the heck do you get watercolor paper that big! Wow! I can see illustration board, but man, this is huge! This reminds of the massive horizontal Burne-Jones piece called “The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon”. Have you ever seen it? You have that same epic quality building in a work of this magnitude. It takes a lot of patience and joy to do detail work at this scale, you are the real deal.

By: elfin-grrl

elfin-grrl — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:13:24 +0000

Charles, this is an epic piece, totally beautiful, Would love to see how this is progressing! Did you get it finished in time for FaerieCon? Your work is inspirational =)

By: boggess.js

boggess.js — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:09:05 +0000

My goodness! The level of detail in your art (at any scale) always humbles me. Can’t wait to see the finished piece!

I LOVE arches watercolor paper, my paper of choice for sure! If you’d like to try it for your smaller work, you may like the “hot press” Arches. It has little to no texture, but has all the wonderful absorbent qualities of the textured kind.

Just thought I’d pass it along!

Jared Boggess

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:31:43 +0000

FaerieCon is a little further drive this year than Philly last year, but how can I pass up an opportunity to see Totoro cavorting with the faeries? Are you and Karen going to both balls? I may have to make it a day trip but I hate to miss them.
Gorgeous work Charles, as always!

By: Scott Conner

Scott Conner — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:31:50 +0000

Wow! That looks fantastic, Charles!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:18:04 +0000

That is going to be one amazing piece of work – I look forwards to your next project, 51 inches by 30 yards………

By: strugglingwriter

strugglingwriter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:29:29 +0000

You might be doing that for yourself as you say, but since you are sharing you wonderful work with us we all win!

Thank you Charles.

Paul

By: dwinship

dwinship — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:08:48 +0000

Bravo!! charles for doing something for yourself. Good to see you and Karen this afternoon. If the lighting doesn’t work, I do think we can create a new lighting system. Looking good!! david

By: Charles Vess

Charles Vess — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:19:37 +0000

Babseth,

If you (or anyone reading this) live any where close to Baltimore, MD you might consider attending FaerieCon, which will be held the weekend of November 6-8. Writer Charles de Lint and I are the GoH and many, many painters of Faerie will be exhibiting: Linda Ravenscroft, Larry Macdougall, Helena Nelson-Reed, Jessie Galbreth as well as LOTS more. In the evenings there are two masquerade balls with live music. A great time is had by all!

Their link: http://www.faeriecon.com/

Charles