Who's That Festive Creature?

Oh, the one in my new blog header? That's Yvonne. She was quite insistent yesterday that I would get nothing done until I put aside my other plans and brought her to life.

Of course, being a very particular creature, she wasn't satisfied with simply being any old Faun. After catching a glimpse of my tree and the bits and baubles of holiday magic, she was quite positive she could not be complete until she was appropriately dressed for the season.

Lest you think she be terribly unreasonable with her demands, she was actually quite patient as I struggled with the less than ideal paper I had drawn her on. You see, that yellow under tone behind some of the snowflakes? That's ink from sending this paper through my printer a while back and being out of all but the tiniest bit of yellow ink. Whatever I had attempted to print was a ghost image to my naked eye and I had forgotten all about it until, of course, I began to paint.

After a few hours and a bit of patience,the yellow ink turned into quite the happy accident. It helped a bit with the shading of her face and gives a nice glow to parts of the snow. I'm just hoping her sisters have the foresight to stop me from using a bum piece of paper for whatever medium they want to be born into.

Did I forget to mention she has sisters? She does and they're quite the family of Peculiar Fauns.

P.S. While I was searching the internet to make sure Yvonne hadn't taken some other fauns name I cam across the remarkably bizarre and wonderful world of Hank Pine and Lily Fawn. They're a vaudevillian act whose look and sound seems to be fairly inspired by old fairy tales and secret societies. You can visit their site here


P.P.S. I've added prints of Yvonne's holiday portrait to the shop. You can find them here.