Fantart- Il posto dei Libri e dei Disegni

Today I have added her hand and I have begun coloring her hair… For those interested, I also have a Facebook page where I publish my updates…. this is its link:   https://www.facebook.com/Fabiola-Fantasy-Art-251688064899016 Today I just have found a fine art printing shop and ordered my first sample case…. I think I may start selling prints after finishing this piece, and not only licensing my work through my zazzle,  fineartamerica shop  and cafepress shops… I’ll think about it….

Still a few brush strokes and it's finished.... as soon as I'll post it I'll add the links for prints and cards! Stay tuned!

This is a detail of my latest fantasy painting.... a tiny butterfly fairy...

AS I wrote in a  previous post ,  I opened my Patreon's page  here .....  Today, I am starting a new project: Each day I will write a post on my Patreon page, uploading a new hand designed sketch.... and each week I will choose one of the sketches done in the previous week to be designed as an artcard....  Become my patron (see instructions here ) and help me choose the sketch you love the most!  Just become my Patron and send me a message with the sketch number you want to be designed as an art card: you will be able to access to a post showing the final artcard when it's done!  Access to daily sketches is free for anyone to see, even if you are (still) not a patron!  Click here    , visit my patreon's posts page and you will find extra details and a photo of me!!!!!!!!! 

She's ready: I finished at last my first pencil work: to tell the truth, the background I did using watercolors, but all the rest is made using pencils. Prints are on sale on Fine art america  : they obviously won't have the watermark (i.e. my name and website) on them.

Thank you to all my visitors following the making of my Green woman... the painting is almost finished!!!!! When she's finished I will prepare stamps and prints to make her available in my shops! In the meanwhile, here she is:

As the fantasy portrait goes on it becomes more interesting... I am available for fantasy and traditional portraits at fbonghi@yahoo.it. Payment due only when the portrait is finished via Paypal or credit card. No shipping is due, it doesn't matter where in the world the painting will be delivered. Available for digital potraits as well. Feel free to write for any question.

This is the wip (work in progress) of the painting I am working at: I am trying with colored pencils this time... Subject is the female version of the renowned Green Man...

This time I took a deep breath, found some courage and decided to try: I submitted this painting for participating to the 2015 edition of Spectrum Fantastic Art. Anyway, I enjoyed painting it, she is the lady of the manor taking a rest from her daily duties, sitting on the lakeside beneath her castle. While painting I probably was thinking to the Urquhart Castle, which I visited in 2012: it was very inspiring... You can find it on my Zazzle shop as a poster

After taking a short holiday, eating some pandoro and Christmas cakes, and being at home looking after my daughter, I am ready to start a new year full of colors, paintings and illustrations! I had a very busy November and December, illustrating four children's books in only 40 days... but I did it without missing my delivery dates :-) I spent these few January weeks finishing my last watercolor (you'll see it in a few days, as soon as I take the photos): I am thinking to use it to do my first video tutorial about watercolor technique... Anyway it is finished now and I am open for commissions again: if you wish the book you wrote for your children to be illustrated, want a portrait of your dog, a custom tatto or a fantasy painting depicting your girlfriend, just contact me at fbonghi@yahoo.it Wishing everybody a happy new year This illustration is a custom coat of arms I did for a client....

 I want to thank all of you, kind readers .... each of you for sharing, liking and appreciating my art and, more in general, all of fantasy art and Art lovers..... This is a gift for you, a special Christmas tree collecting a few of my past works, both digital and traditional. I really wish you and your families a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Hugs Fabiola

This is the cover of the last book I illustrated: click on the image and you'll be able to visit the Amazon book page: the original illustration I drew is a brightly full colored one, but the author prefererred a sepia version...

An “orphan” drawing I used to draw illustrations for a wedding organizing website, providing them to its webmaster: unfortunately the collaboration between the webmaster and that website stopped, but someone forgot to tell me about that, so I continued to illustrate the piece they previously told me to work at. The illustration I drew  I like very much, I must say it probably is the most original I drew for them, but it is not intended to be part of that website anymore. Nevertheless, I want it to be displayed, so I post it here: it is all gold and silver!!! :-)

I think I can definitely say Christmas time is the most busy time of the year for an illustrator.... lots of people want to have their books and fables illustrated for their sons, daughters, niece..... I wish each month was so full with commissions!!!!! But I am also neglecting my watercolors, wich makes me a bit sad.... Brushes, wait for me, I'll soon be back!!!!!!! :-) This is an illustration I drew for a client....  a fairy, of course :-)

I published a new digital Christmas card on my Etsy Shop: this is the image with a watermark: click on the image to visit my shop!

New necklace on sale on Etsy featuring my fairy design for Christmas: click on the image to see the necklace on Zazzle:

I recently finished my Butterfly Fairies Series, made of five sweet, funny wood fairies adorned with butterfly and dragonfly wings : The fairies are on sale on my Etsy Shop , where you can instantly buy and download them: there you can find five files, jpeg, 300 dpi, ready for printing and coloring. You can buy one fairy only, or two, three... as you like it! Each purchase includes a black and white file ready for printing and coloring AND a partially colored version to offer coloring suggestions. They cost € 2,50 each... here their names and links: Sadie, the strawberry fairy Rose, the butterfly fairy Freckle, the pumpkin Fairy Elwenn, the elf fairy Daisy, the flower fairy This image is a composit of the entire series:

This is the illustration I drew for an article about an “hippie” or “roaring twenties” inspired  marriage: it has been published on the  Villa Valente website, a location based near Rome for events, parties and marriages… My next illustration is ready, but I can’t publish it before it is published by Villa Valente… stay tuned, you’ll see it in a few days! And it will have a sexy feeling…

I’m just opening  my new shop on Etsy:   its name, Fantasy Art Online, is temporary, and it will take time to set up as I want it to be, but I already added a few items: in particular, I added a downloadable drawing, a Christams fairy, both in coloured and black and white version, ready tobe coloured. I hope it brings me luck!!! In the meanwhile, merry Christmas to you all!

I just published my first monthly   fantasy calenda r: it is on sale on Lulu.com , and it depicts my fairy fantasy works! My Watercolors and digital paintings are included in the calendar, which shows one painting per month, according to the month's feeling: I choose each painting thinking to the emotion you feel during each season... spring, summer, winter.... I developed the graphic of the paintings as well, in order to let them shine in a printed work such as a monthly calendar. For the first 10 buyers, just contact me after purchasing and you will receive, free , the file version of the calendar! Printed version: The calendar is on sale here, just click on the button and see its large interior preview: If you prefere the italian version, you will find it here: Digital version  (pdf format) on sale for only 4 Euros!   Just select the desidered version (english or italian) and click the paypal button: you will receive the calendar f...