The great Austrian-born filmmaker
Billy Wilder once said "
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian."
On making another European witch - an Austrian this time, I was thinking about how much I loved my trip to
Vienna when I was 6 or 7 years old. What a magical place. Plus I just happen to think that the German language is the most attractive, fantastic sounding language. Yes, I know, German is spoken a little differently there, but it's still German, and I love it. ;)
This witch came together very quickly because I'd already designed her and had her clearly in my mind ages ago when I did the
witch illustration. Can you point her out?! Unlike most of my character designs which try to embody as much of that culture as possible, this one is a little more vague. I've made her tall, strong, authoritarian, confident and with a big red almost beehive hairstyle. Her Edwardian brooch has a skull on it and she wears stripes. Her 'familiar' (witch's pet) is a black Great Dane. I photographed her next to a can of Red Bull because it's an Austrian drink, created by an Austrian entrepreneur! Didn't know that now did you?!
(I didn't either until 2 weeks ago).
I usually share many work-in-progress photos so that you can see how she was created, but this time I am holding some back... partly for
this reason! Rest assured, you'll see so much more in my upcoming book. Hope that doesn't cause any disappointment and that you enjoy these photos below.
Don't forget, you can see all my characters from my project -
Good Witches Bad Witches ™ here!
In other news....
Flown up front with my pilot friend in his Cirrus back to San Francisco again! See the exciting night landing here!
The US election happened earlier this week, which meant that as a Greencard-holding resident here in the US I could observe the election, but not vote. I went to the polling booth here in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, and was thrilled to be invited inside for a minute or two and shown how the machines worked.
And also Halloween, my favourite time of year has come and gone, and I shared a post about what I got up to
here.
On work related matters, stay tuned (that means keep checking in on at the
Facebook page and
Instagram) to see more of the exciting sets I am building for
Good Witches Bad Witches ™ ....!
Please scroll past the note for my Austrian friends to see photos of the new witch - the Austrian Witch (die österreichische hexe)!
Liebe Freunde in Österreich,
hier habe ich eine Nachricht für Euch….
Mit sieben Jahren besuchte ich Wien und
verbrachte dort eine ganz wunderbare Zeit. Was für ein schöner Ort
! Dahin möchte ich gerne zurückkehren und mehr über Österreich
entdecken.
Als Künstlerin arbeite ich an einem Projekt „
Good Witches Bad Witches“ und modellierte dafür Hexen aus der
ganzen Welt. So sind bereits Hexen aus England, Schottland,
Frankreich, Italien und anderen Ländern entstanden.
Und diese ist nun die österreichische hexe.Ich stellte sie aus Fimo Material und Draht
her. Sie sollte ein bisschen furchteinflößend sein, doch hoffe ich,
sie gefällt Ihnen dennoch.
Für Ihr Interesse an meinen Arbeiten und
Charakteren möchte ich mich sehr bedanken. Wenn Sie mehr darüber
erfahren möchten, können Sie auf meiner Facebook Seite,
meinem Instagram, oder über Twitter Informationen
erhalten.
Vielen Dank!
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