Owen William Weber Illustration

Though I did not do all the challenges of the Month of Love tumblr blog, I did do two.  I tried to come up with good ideas for the other two challenges, but for whatever reason, it just didn't work out.  So here are the two that I did complete. The first piece I painted was for the Second week, the challenge being: Language of Love.  I thought it was an interesting idea to convey the ways animals show love to their owners.  This image came to mind.  Though we have never had a mouse problem, our cat has on occasion displayed a waterbug or two it has killed.  I was able to piece together a couple reference photos I took of our cat for this piece, so it worked as a nice portrait of Mim.  I painted this all in one sitting, something I haven't done in quite some time. A Present , 7" x 10", Oil on Paper on Masonite, 2016.  The second piece I painted was for the Third week, the challenge being: Weapons.  I was really having trouble coming up...

Today's wolf is Lady.  She was the first one to die and so we never quite knew what role she would have played in Sansa's life and how things would have been had she stayed in the story.  Would Sansa have been a fiercer character? Would Lady have played a part in killing any main characters? Or would she have been the lamest of the Direwolves and been kept in a life of ribbons in her hair and had a vegetarian diet?  We'll never know, I like to think she would have made Sansa stronger and made Joffrey fear torturing Sansa so much. Here we see Lady just a few moments before her impending doom. And a Happy New Year Everyone!  Last year was the Best Year of my life, so I'm hope this year will be only slightly less good.