This artwork is brilliant and full of emotional genius. It is excellent concept art and brilliantly executed technically! I recognize the genius of the artwork and I admire the artist’s talent.

And I Can’t Swim by Astra Allen

I don’t like the scene portrayed … at all. I find it incredibly painful.

This view of a child standing outside an old and worn building with a black interior surrounded by a gloomy muddy blue-gray sea on a gloomy grayish day is completely evocative of exactly how I felt as a child who was being severely physically and emotionally abused.

I would not want to live with this painting on my walls … it is too dark and gothic for me … but great art makes people think and feel … and this landscape does exactly that … very well.

A knight sleeping with a dragon is not exactly what one thinks of when hearing the words knight and dragon together in the same sentence … but it is a wonderful contrast and unexpected visual that makes one stop and consider other possibilities than just just knights hunting down dragons to kill them … fantasy books have long partnered dragons and knights as more than just foes to the death … some dragons are good and wise while others are to be tracked to their lairs for final death thrusts from swords … both can be in the same book so why not paintings of knight and dragon partnerships too?

This would be a wonderful addition to anyone’s fantasy art collection. The dragon scale detail is marvelous and took a long time to accomplish. The tattoo art on the knight is a bit unexpected as well … most knights are not pictured with tattoos … usually their armor covers them from head to toe so not much if any of their body or faces are ever seen. Great job!

For Love of Dragons by Stella Strout [Tattooed Knight Sleeping with Dragon]