Sapphire Phoenix

Her’s another picture for the LiveJournal Gryphon Art Exchange, this time of the lovely Sapphire Phoenix in her gryphon form. It was requested that she be shown in a cold environment, so I have drawn her as she stands atop a snow-covered hill with the pale wintry sun shining through the heavy clouds. Whether she is merely greeting the sunlight with her outstretched talon or is actually calling it forth, I don’t know; even in her gryphon form she is, after all, part phoenix and therefore a being of light and magic.

This is also one of my favourite pictures. Again, I have learned a great deal on the nature of texture while working with this image, and it gave me the opportunity to work with two of my favourite colours, blue and black. I love working with colours. :}