Simba

[WFMartin]

I painted this lion quite some time ago, It is a 16" x 20" Oil on Canvas.

"Simba"...16" x 20" oil on canvas

 

[musket]

This could easily serve as an illustration for the dust jacket of a deluxe limited letterpress edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

 

[snoball]

Excellent Bill.

 

[Artyczar]

Very excellente! Great fur. He looks so soft.

 

[Katie]

Incredible! I love the detail on his feet.

 

[stlukesguild]

L ❤ ve it, Bill! It has something about it that recalls Magic Realism.

 

[WFMartin]

Thank you all! Strange that you should mention his feet, Katie. I worked from a reference photo that had a different background, and one of his feet was not showing, as I recall. So, I just painted in a "foot" to sorta' match the other one. An art friend of mine was the judge for the art competition in which I entered this painting, and he told me that he had not given it an award because the feet didn't seem to "go with the lion", or something like that. . That's the reason ya' never want friends to do the judging of your work at an art show--they either go out of their way to award your work, or out of their way not to!

 

[Katie]

Thank you all! Strange that you should mention his feet, Katie. I worked from a reference photo that had a different background, and one of his feet was not showing, as I recall. So, I just painted in a "foot" to sorta' match the other one. An art friend of mine was the judge for the art competition in which I entered this painting, and he told me that he had not given it an award because the feet didn't seem to "go with the lion", or something like that. . That's the reason ya' never want friends to do the judging of your work at an art show--they either go out of their way to award your work, or out of their way not to!

Awww how annoying! We love it anyway.

 

[bjcpaints]

He definitely has a storybook quality to him - I love it!