April VanSickle

Welcome to my website. I am primarily a fantasy artist and illustrator, however I also do other subject matter as well (birds in particular) as the mood strikes. I paint digitally as well as traditionally in both watercolors and acrylics. My galleries are rather sparse right now as I just retired a lot of my older work and removed them from the website. I feel they no longer represent my path in art and so will be populating the galleries with my new work. In addition to the galleries I have an online shop here where I list my available originals, prints and other products. I hope that you enjoy your visit.

Recent Work



 

 

 

Blog posts


Happy Thanksgiving!

Where the Wild Fae Play revisted

Meetup.com

Older art retired

Some favorite quotes

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August 1, 2011 -  Where the Wild Fae Play revisted - 

 

I have some new art to share with you.

Wild will-o’-the-wisp playing together in a forest glade one summer night. This is a rework of an older painting that I did a few years back. I’ve always loved the concept, but the execution at the time was no where near close to what I imagined.  I like this version a LOT better!    :)

 

This is not as refined an image as I would normally do, but I really like the loose feel of it.   I was feeling a wee bit frustrated with the slowness I was experiencing with Painter so I decided to give Photoshop a go to see how I would go about creating a painting entirely in photoshop cs4.   I rather enjoyed the experience.

 

This painting also appears in an art show hosted by FAE entitled “Summer and Fire Art Show“.