"Guts And Glory" by Carol Lyon (Windrider)

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"Guts And Glory" by Carol Lyon (Windrider)

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2011 Fan Art Calendar: COVER

"Come on, Spine, tell us one of your stories"

"Tell us about the time you and my father caught that big huge nasty spinefish together --"

"Oh no! <sigh> Not that one again! That one's just full of guts and glory and no heart. I want to hear something new --"

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Illustration Board
Original Size: 11" X 14"

Posted December 31, 2010, 11:30:12 AM
January 30, 2011, 10:38:57 AM
Spine, Stormsong, Wavedancers, spinefish

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Treefox

Fan Calendar Participant
Total Items: 94
Total Comments: 3351

Comment #1 - Posted January 07, 2011, 12:13:46 PM

Gee, what to say about this? This is so marvelous I am again at a lack of words...
The movement, the joy, the supreme fish design and the picture idea itself are just so wonderful. I actually wondered if your sketches of Stormsong would have something to do with this year's calendar.
Thank you so much for all the effort to bring us another beautiful calendar!

spearcarrier

Fan Calendar Participant
Total Items: 33
Total Comments: 70

Comment #2 - Posted January 08, 2011, 11:03:05 PM

This is an example of the many images that make me shrivel up and die in jealousy.

A_Phoenix

Total Items: 31
Total Comments: 133

Comment #3 - Posted January 09, 2011, 12:25:14 AM

I do love it cover!

Foxeye

Calendar Judge
Total Items: 158
Total Comments: 445

Comment #4 - Posted January 10, 2011, 10:19:33 AM

This piece is just glorious. I've already said it, but it bears saying again...that is one dead sexy fish. Such beautiful patterning and textures on him. This would be a great cover for a second edition of some Hidden Years stories. ^_^

mischievous_valkyrie

Total Items: 74
Total Comments: 237

Comment #5 - Posted January 10, 2011, 10:31:39 AM

This is Gorgeous, I love how you have done the water, it makes me want to look closer and see how you did it ^^ also love the sense of action I get from it, and the lads' expressions they look like they are enjoying the hunt, and of course I love their hair, (is a total sucker for that hair style ^////^) you pulled it off beautifully, and I really do love the texturing and shading of the water its wonderful!

Eregyrn

Total Items: 133
Total Comments: 345

Comment #6 - Posted January 23, 2011, 05:11:38 PM

Love this. The water is fabulous -- I love the perfect, glowing quality of the curling wave, and how much movement there is in it. And the fish! Meticulously done, but full of life, and I love how you have subtly decided to give the sailfish a color-scheme that isn't really found in our world, but which still looks entirely real for this world. (Truth: I'm really fond of sailfish, we have a very high quality fake "stuffed" life-sized one on the wall of the family home, which is very kitschy but fun, and thus the shape is so familiar and comforting, and I love the expressiveness of this one.) Plus, it's cool to wonder -- is that mohawk-hairstyle a family "trait", or just a style that one of the brothers started and the other one decided to copy? (And which one I wonder?

) Fantastic as always.