J. Godfrey - Blog Posts
Kyrie (eleison) 2020, 10x20-ish mixed media on masonite Media, in no specific order: Watercolor, acrylic, acryla gouache, gold and silver leaf, gold mica flake, lace
Done for @capri-bigbang2k19
According to the date on my phone, I finished the sketch in late August. I finished not too long ago, making this my first painting of 2020. How fitting, given this piece includes a lot of firsts: mounting a piece on masonite with matte medium as an adhesive; using squeeze bottles and blunt needles to do fine lining/piping (I need to go thinner,) and making shell gold for the purpose of being liquid gold paint (a technique adapted from how Russian icon painters make shell gold, which is both time-consuming and kind of fun.) I also used matte medium as more adhesive for the lacing after looking into how collage and assemblage artists make their pieces stick without fear of glue breaking or yellowing.
I'd visit this intermittently along with working on bees for my local town - it became a form of therapy in which I was allowed to “get real fucking weird,” as some professionals say.
The dried grass, camellias, roses, sweet peas and baby's breath are a reference to my writing contribution to the Captive Prince Big Bang, which needs to be worked on oops, but I got until Saturday.
Title is from the Christian liturgy, but also a reference to my album of 2019: Lingua Ignota’s Caligula, specifically If the Poison Won’t Take You... (TW: loud music, references to domestic abuse.)
Oh my god it’s done.
So been on a fanart-for-fanfic kind of kick and this one is inspired by/for @steelestingray‘s Of Kings and Curators! It’s been really refreshing just making things for things I like versus worrying about monetizing, cons and the like. I really enjoyed the mental image of Laurent having an aura that goes between gold and blush and blue and wanted to play around with it (the blue, I could lie and say was deliberate, but my brush flicked some ink. I just shrugged and went with it.)
I still feel like Laurent came out looking like a J Crew/LL Bean model mixed with a history T.A. with the sweater-vest but honestly, I’m glad I stuck with it.
Detail shot from the salt wash because I told myself I wouldn’t, but I have the impulse control of a toddler.
Graphite (2H and 2B,) watercolor (Daniel Smith,) Liquitex Iridescent Gold ink, and Pilot Iroshizuku inks in Kon-peki (Cerulean Blue) and Syoro (Dew on Pine Tree/a really lovely blue-green.)
Finally finished with the sketch, now I have to work on the painting part. Yippee! Which’ll be fine, I got her down with some workable fixative so I can preserve these nice graphite lines.
Working on things, forever happy with myself
Got in my local paper a few weeks back and I'm happy to share it with the entire world!
Hey, all, if you wanted to buy prints from me but missed me at cons and the like, I’m running a sale on my Storenvy site!
My market place store is participating in the Black Friday (30% off,) Shop Small Saturday (25% off,) and Cyber Monday (40% off) sales. If you miss those, fear not, because my custom store is offering a deal from now until 15 December: 25% off your purchase of $15 or more (including originals!)
And now I can happily say my online store is open :D come visit!
Thank you to everyone who came by!
Now that realmscon is wrapped up, I am on the process of overhauling my shop to include new pieces and prints! Keep an eye out :D and again thanks for saying hi/asking for commissions!
oh my goodness gracious they are finished at laaaast
Shiro and Hunk from Voltron: Lgendary Defender :D these took a good while and while I unfortunately do not have any prints/stickers of them in time for Realmscon, I will have the originals for sale.
Finished this back in April, but finally got a good photograph of it. Anthy and Utena from Revolutionary Girl Utena with some tarot-esque references (ten of swords and page of swords, respectively.)
Daniel Smith watercolors and salt washes on Arches cold pressed art board.
More Voltron work, Shiro and Hunk :D
More Voltron! Pidge and Keith to match, with Shiro coming up and eventually a Hunk.
Flowers are both calming and a pain in the butt to paint traditionally.
Marigold, marigold, marigold~🎶 Shiro from Voltron, stapled and drying. Might print Hunk tonight too.
finally got him finished :D thanks for watching me at delta h con a few weeks ago y’all
2016, august -- bluebells and geraniums
2015 watercolor and ink
and finally done with this one :D
2014
old biddy character i painted last year
And Whimsicott/Erefun from Pokemon which is for twitterdex on, well, twitter! Had so much fun with the little guy and they're super sparkly in my sketchbook c:
Commission for a friend of mine, herself and Beatrice from the Umineko series. Had fun with the gold paste and doing abstract shojo-roses~.
- 3 in. long x 4 in. wide x 2 in. deep - Non-glossy pinch pot in the shape of a hedgehog with spiked lid - Hand-formed and shaped Hello, shoppers. This is a handmade pinch pot - a pot made by pinching and shaping with the hands, not with a potter’s wheels - in the shape of a hedgehog. It includes a small lid to cover and protect whatever knick-knacks you would like to store in it, or to make it look more like a hedgehog. For those of you with pet hedgehogs, I highly advice against using this pot for food or water. The glaze I put on this piece is toxic and I would not want a product to endanger anyone, especially a small animal. This cannot be reproduced at this time. If you are unhappy with your purchase, you will be given a refund including for shipping.
Sold and shipped!
Another fanart from an RPS fanfic. This one was done in mechanical pencil, mostly. I enjoyed the different faces and playing with angles of the face.
another piece from a dream. i dreamt that i was trying to kill myself by going underwater and purposely filling my water with lungs. in the end i was having second thoughts and wanted to swim up to the surface, but i was too far down to really be able to. so yes. watercolour and dip pen
"la-la-la-la-la" i went off for a few days due to depression episodes. i’ve never had one that was emotionally turbulent in which i did nothing but scream, cry, throw things and want to just wither in a little corner. i wanted to hide from my feelings and problems because i never felt more out of control in my whole life. i never felt more afraid of myself. so yeah, this piece is to highlight those moments from the past few days (which have recurred every month.) watercolour and dip pen.
