Jenny Dolfen

Important - please read

I've been thinking about doing this for some time, and now that the new term is a week old and all my problems, all the stress and all my time constraints are back (and have doubled) I know this is the time to do it. 

I need to power down Patreon. Again. Even more than before. 

Maybe you've seen it coming. I ha...

Wand of Shrikes - sketch

Shrikes were such a great idea! Especially with the hung-up little critters I can put in to add to the "Unseelie" feel. 

Faerie Court - card game project!

Hey all! I'm proud to share two (messy) sketches I made for my contribution to a card game being done by Changeling Artist Collective, to hit the Crowdfunding stage next year. It's a project where each artist illustrates two cards, with the same symbol, one interpreted for the Court of the Unseelie and one for the Seelie court. ...

Ginny finished

(I'm glad I managed to make her a little less like my daughter in the final version - being my number one model is getting to that girl's head, haha!)

Edit: Uploaded image file. I always forget to paint freckles! 

Ginny, in progress

The beginning of what I hope will be a loose watercolour painting. 

Varda - Patreon commission

Last month's commish for Taryn. I hope you like her! <3 

Patreon prompt: Ginny

Last month's prompt for Kate, after a fun photoshoot with my daughter. I love giving Harry Potter characters 90's Britpop style clothing. Hope to give this a bit of watercolour. 

Dover

Done plein-air, on the ferry back home. The White Cliffs are strangely ambiguous, I think. They either welcome you to this wonderful little/great island, and a little while later, they wish you farewell. Yesterday, I'd actually hoped to catch them in the sunlight (a rare occasion indeed), but while we were on Dover castle passin...

More English watercolour sketches

Stonehenge! I've been there before - twice, actually, even back in the day when you were allowed to walk right up to the stones - but it's always a staggering sight. The most staggering is when you drive past Salisbury plain, over the top of a hill, and look down on those breathtaking stones towering down in the valley, quite fa...

Back from England!

Back from two fantastic weeks of holidaying in the South of England with the family. We went up Tintagel, Helman Tor and Glastonbury Tor, to the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff, walked to St Michael's Mount off the Cornwall coast even though the walkway was already flooded, found 400 million years old ammonites and other fossil...

Sketches

A first concept idea for the "Bones and Legends" piece I was talking about earlier, plus a few doodles I did at various sessions. 

I'll be leaving for the holidays on Thursday - a trip round southern England; Canterbury, Southhampton, Dorset, Cornwall - and hope to return with my camera drive full of gorgeous locations! I...

Ref pics for my next piece

Finally, a new painting idea has entered my head - which has been so devoid of painting ideas for about six months that it hardly knew what to do with it, haha. 

My creative process usually starts with a story, often a phrase, words more than pictures. I then spend about two to six days playing with concepts in my head. O...

Together Alone

Schmincke watercolour on Canson Nuageux paper, 29x39 cm. 

I spent all day yesterday going back and forth between hating this and loving it - ended up loving it, fortunately. ;) Something didn't work about the paper. It probably had to do with taking so long; I don't know. 

I really like the flowy background, an...

Finally getting this one underway!

I spent three days with my parents and left the kids with them, so I have at least four days in a slightly more relaxed state of mind. Here's the first stage of this painting! 

Livestream cancelled

Hey guys, I'm really sorry that I have to cancel today's livestream. I told you that I was having real-life trouble that is just killing all my spare time and every ounce of peace of mind needed for being creative. I'd hoped I could steal two hours today; I'm afraid I can't. I'm so sorry. 

I'll try to grab a few minutes h...

Livestream Sunday afternoon!

I'll be up with a livestream here on Patreon at 5 pm CEST, though their software Crowdcast! I've already set up the post and scheduled it, so from what I gather, it'll just pop up tomorrow afternoon in the normal Patreon feed here (and xou should get notification emails with a link, as with normal Patreon posts). It's set to Pat...

Woo-hoo! Livestreams!

Patreon has somehow managed to give us a livestream feature that just works. It took me a week to figure out Youtube live, and two days to figure out Twitch - and in Patreon, I just click two buttons and I'm live. O=  It has everything from comment boxes to view-later features.

So here's a poll for you - when's the best t...

Together Alone

I finally managed to get to Sandra's commission: Little Newt Scamander and Leta Lestrange at Hogwarts. There are only hints of Leta and her relationship to Newt thus far, but both seem to have been oddballs at Hogwarts, interested in animals more than humans, and seeking each other's company the way oddballs do, without forming ...

July 2017 Raffle!

Hello my dears! It's July, and that means it's time for another raffle!

Holidays are around the corner, and I'm totally at a loss whether that means more art or not. You'll have noticed that there has been very little art at all this year, and somehow, it doesn't feel as if it's a dry spell that's about to end. I don't th...

Video for the Doctor

Here's the vid - with music, fittingly, by Doctor Turtle. XD

"Where do you want to start?"

Yay! This seems to be one of the occasions when a long drawing hiatus ends in something really cool. Now - to keep that up! 

Watercolour, white gel pen and Polychromos on Nuageux cold-pressed paper, A4 size.

Little video preview

I'm stealing single hours here and there to work on this, so I can't schedule a livestream right now - but the recording will be online :)

On a very interesting note, it seems Patreon is planning to make livestreams possible on this site - which is so logical when you think about it! Can't wait for that one.