For this bonus theme, I went pretty literal, and painted a romantic scene of a frog prince courting a frog princess. Your classic love story, really. A frog cupid, sending his love arrows into the prince's heart, was added to the scene, to tie the whole thing with today's holiday.
The figures are from Dark Sword's Anthropomorphic Animals range, and painting a frog during the challenge has become an annual tradition for yours truly! You may remember two years ago I painted a frog knight "Sir Kermit", and last year I went with a frog jester. This year I went big with three frogs!
Painting this range is always a lot of fun, as I can let my imagination run wild and just go with lots of colours. I'm also getting good at painting the critters and really happy with this lot. I'm especially proud as they were painted using a GW brush! In a moment of sheer clumsiness I ruined my precious Rosemary and Co. brushes by spilling army painter varnish on them, and so had to buy the only available brushes in Montreal. They are worse than I remember!
I'm going all in into this theme, as this entry is also my Valentine's day gift to Laurie, my girlfriend and mon amour. The Dark Sword's frogs have always been a favourite of Laurie (yes for some weird reason she prefers them to Chaos Champions and Napoleonic soldiers) so I spent the last two weeks working on them in secret. I believe she's going to be really happy with her gift!
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Iannick
Great work Iannick!
ReplyDeleteThanks Greg!
DeleteGreat subject, composition and painting!
ReplyDeleteThanks, It's one of my favourite concept since I've been doing bonus round themes.
DeleteBeautiful stuff Iannick - I love the 'Ribbit' Cupid!
ReplyDeleteThanks Curt!
DeleteWhat a perfect entry for this round. It's cute, it's touching, it's sincere and it is so very well painted. Laurie is indeed one lucky lady to have you-what a splendid gift.
ReplyDeleteVery nice comments Anne, thank you! Laurie did like it a lot :-)
DeleteNice work. How deep is the water? Froggy Sez....Knee Deep....Knee Deep.....Knee Deep.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteVery cool
ReplyDeleteCheers Martin!
DeleteBrilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much
DeleteThe colours are fantastic, what a fun little scene!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Had a lot of fun with the colours.
DeleteThat is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael!
DeleteOh wow! Iannick that is just the most wonderful entry...
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael, much appreciated
DeleteWicked work Iannick! They really look great, specially with the daring palette you've used.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Purple, pink and turquoise, is that daring? ;-)
DeleteWonderful, and even better with a GW brush! Really amazing colours, and great work!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sidney! And yes, I can't believe people actually paint with these things.
DeleteLovely work and theme Iannick :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Tamsin!
DeleteGorgeous colours and so well done.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet Valentines Day gift. Laurie is a lucky lady.
Thanks Sarah! She doesn't like flowers, so I have to be a bit more imaginative than many! ;-)
DeleteGreat color palette on them! It suits them well, I hope your Lady enjoys them! ;)
ReplyDeleteSuperb
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