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Patreon Patrons
I have recently created a Patreon page, where I will be posting about my works-in-progress, and indeed sharing draft chapters as things move forward.
I want to express my deepest thanks to those who have joined the Gold Level of my noble Patrons.
Bradley Rader
Author Archives: Sarah
Art as Commentary
I don’t usually do artwork that is commentary on political events. It is just not my usual thing. However, recently, the way things have been going in the American political system, early this year I felt the impulse to do … Continue reading
Christmas 2022 — Designing the Card
This last Christmas, I was finally able to return to a personal tradition of mine, that of designing my Christmas card and having them printed up to send out to my longish list of friends and family. It had been … Continue reading
Experiencing New Art
Several years ago, I did a stint of writing material for Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) for an online marketing specialist. One of his clients was an abstract artist, and she wanted a blog about art, especially abstract and contemporary art. … Continue reading
Dragons – Raging Water and Fire
Getting back to posting about my collection of dragons, I thought I would start with a pair that I had gotten some time during the 1990s. They are a rather spectacular pair, to be sure. Michael Whelan had established himself … Continue reading
Posted in Three Dimentional
Tagged Anne McCaffery, Dragons, Michael Whelan, Pern, Sculpture
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Inktober 2019 – Getting Started
I’ve skipped doing the Inktober drawing exercises the last couple of years. But I decided to get back into it this year. Part of it was that I’ve just been wanting to do artwork of any sort, but hadn’t applied … Continue reading
Identifying an Inspiration
I keep a file of interesting pictures I run across online or in magazine or pamphlets, as references for drawings and paintings. Sometimes these pictures indicate where they were taken, and sometimes they don’t. One of my favorite paintings of … Continue reading
New Digital Artwork
It’s been a while since I last did much artwork, and lately I’ve been feeling itchy about wanting to do some. Now I certainly want to do some physical painting, but that involves clearing out some work space, and unfortunately, … Continue reading
The Masks of the Masque of the Silmarils
Way back in the “Dark Ages” — okay, the mid-1980s — I had been thinking about J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, and the various fates of the gem stones in the story. Thinking about it to the degree of considering writing a … Continue reading
Posted in Three Dimentional
Tagged Acrylic, Fantasy, Mythlore, Silmarillion, Tolkien, Valar
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Illustrating a Memory
In updating my website, I’m trying to make sure all posts (or at least most of them) have images attached to them. That’s because Google likes to find images with posts. So today, I created a piece of digital artwork … Continue reading
