Firelight's Ruddy Glow

Hi friends!!! So excited to share this with you. I have at least been working on it for 1 week, maybe 2.... 2 1/2? haha. Not all of it was intense focused work but it definitely took a long time. And........ more than a few creation spren  

I have been a long fan of Brandon Sanderson from the Mistborn trilogy, but I started reading (and rather quickly once I got into it) Way of Kings.... so amazing!!! Breathtaking and amazing. This is a scene from the book, where the main character Kaladin unexpectedly encounters Wit within the shatter plain chasms. Wit plays him a song on a magical flute, making the fire's smoke illustrate parts of the story, at one point turning into a ship. Poor, broken slave Kaladin. Amazingingly witty.... Wit This scene popped into my head, I loved how enchanting it was, I had to paint it!!!! So this is my loving tribute. Painting this lasted through the entire second book, and while a scene definitely sticks out to paint from there too...... but I'm really tired haha! just finished it, this painting took a lot out of me, I hope it was worth it and of course there was a more thorough illustration of the chasmfields in the second book, but I was *almost* done with this by the time I found it!! So I was modestly accurate, at least now I can rate my imagination. The chasms are definitely supposed to have more dead bodies.... but I didn't really want to paint anything icky, and instead show the marvelous glowing plants that was down there. Rockbuds, weird mossy and tentacally vine buds and polyps.... I truly loved the illustrations in the book! I could have probably added more, but I feel like I already add so much "craziness" to my paintings I could call it finished. Not perfect, but finished.

Watercolor, 11x15 inches