Shadowness - maidith

Imperial Noon

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:36:45 -0400

Reincarnation

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:43:11 -0400

ibriya bookcover

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:43:03 -0400

Little Red Riding Hood

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:41:56 -0400

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Queen Anne's Revenge

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:41:56 -0400

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Nike

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:41:55 -0400

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Frozen in Time

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:01:32 -0500

website: http://www.mondhase.de art blog: http://kristinagehrmann.tumblr.com/ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristina-Gehrmann-Illustration/217959828256642 Those three guys have become known as the best preserved ice mummies of the 19th century. Petty Officer John Torrington, Private William Braine and Able Seaman John Hartnell were the first casualties of the doomed Franklin Expedition. They all died in a rather short time span of pneumonia, tuberculosis and lead poisoning and were buried next to each other on Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic. Their gravestones are still there today. But they did not become famous until they were exhumed by Professor Owen Beattie and his team in 1984. I've read the account in Beattie's book "Frozen in time" and just had to paint them. How could they have looked when they were alive? All I have as a guide are photographs of the preserved bodies, and until someone exhumes them again there will be only that very limited number of old photos.

Vintage Self Portrait

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:01:32 -0500

Basically, I just wanted to paint an awesome old room with lots of awesome old stuff in it. It's the most time consuming painting I made this year; the sketch and line drawing alone took somewhere in the vicinity of 10 hours. website: http://www.mondhase.de art blog: http://kristinagehrmann.tumblr.com/ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristina-Gehrmann-Illustration/217959828256642

The Orphan

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:49:42 -0400

Tintin visiting the grave of his "father" Georges Remi a.k.a. Hergé. art blog: http://kristinagehrmann.tumblr.com/ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristina-Gehrmann-Illustration/217959828256642

Northwest Passage

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:58:03 -0400

This is either the HMS Erebus or the HMS Terror, a 19th century exploration vessel. Both these ships left England on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in 1845. Sir John Franklin hoped to navigate through the so-called Northwest Passage in the Arctic. But in the Victoria Strait, both ships became trapped in ice. The crew waited two and a half years for the ice to thaw but that did not happen. So in April 1848 they decided to abandon the ships and were not heard from again. No single man made it back home to England. It is assumed that they died from disease, food poisoning and starvation. From relics found by search expeditions later it was concluded that the last survivors eventually resorted to cannibalism.