This image portrays a dragon as the sage beings of myth, advising a fairy perched on his tail, who apparently has gotten in a “tiff” with someone, with is an illusion to Arthur Rackham’s “Tiff with the Birds”. This was sketched in the back of a van returning from Las Vegas Comic Con 2003 and painted a couple weeks after returning to the east coast.
It was painted in the style of Arthur Rackham, a famous artist before our time who illustrated children’s books, fairy tales, myths, and works by Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. Most of his work was drawn in ink with a wash of watercolor, which is the style mimicked in this artwork.
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