Moose Woods
National Day of Sweden 6th June 2019
This was a little speed-paint that I did for National day of Sweden. It was more of an excuse to draw some woods and a lady moose. It’s a loose overall image with more of a feeling of atmosphere over anything else.
The only thing I knew I wanted this image to have was a forest of some sort. It’s based loosely on a section of forest I got lost in this Winter whilst looking for some old viking ruins. One thing I found a lot of whilst exploring woods and old places was these Stone Walls from old times. Another thing I found was that the trees rose so tall, and the earth was also heavy with moss and greenery. It truly feels like a place where magic can happen.
Doing things in a bit of a different order, these were the colour thumbnails which I composed to try and figure out how I wanted the image to feel. Overall I wanted it feel like there was some sort of mystery, like a troll could be creeping around or the air was heavy. Sweden has some sort of magic to it’s ancient forests, and it’s hard to capture it but you can definitely understand why there are so many mythological creatures and stories based in the forests.
And finally these were the original sketches I mocked up during fika. I do know for sure I was very tempted to paint up the cat in the flowers on the right page but didn’t really feel it was a good rendition of how I saw Sweden. Sweden to me is very vast and so rich in what it has to offer.
Chervelle Fryer 