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Description
This is a submission to the contest on the group
Theme: Oriental Dragon

Water is both constant and ever changing. It is the ice and snow of winter, the early morning mists and dew. It is the gentle rain of summer and the angry storms of the ocean. It is majestic yet subtle, wonderful yet terrible. But above all, water is patient. Water can wait for centuries as ice before it brings forth the floods. Water can wear away the tallest mountain and rust the strongest weapon if given enough time.
Water is patient.
The mother is patient.
She will need patience to raise her hatchling, feed it, protect it, teach it, care for it. Motherhood requires years of patience. The mother is constant and ever changing, there to discipline and there to comfort.
The mother is as water.

This was originally going to be a watercolour but me being me the technical pen I used for inking my lineart was water soluble so it had to be mixed media instead. At least I realised before I started painting. So after sketching and inking in the lines I coloured in the base colours with markers and then added in details with pastels and metallic pencils. If I actually had any photography skills whatsoever you'd be able to see the true colours of the piece. Roughly A3 in size.

Oriental dragons are often pictured with pearls as a symbol of prosperity and I think that the greatest prosperity you could ever have is your children, and it has always struck me that the larger pearls the dragons grasp in their claws look like dragon eggs. So the idea came about for a mother dragon patiently waiting on her pearl-like egg to hatch and bring her great prosperity. And given oriental dragons strong association with water it was also natural to compare the patience of a mother spending years raising her children to the patience of water taking years to erode its path and travel on its journey.

Please full view to get the details. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

This artwork belongs to me. Please do not steal.

Description
This is a submission to the contest on the group
Theme: Oriental Dragon

Water is both constant and ever changing. It is the ice and snow of winter, the early morning mists and dew. It is the gentle rain of summer and the angry storms of the ocean. It is majestic yet subtle, wonderful yet terrible. But above all, water is patient. Water can wait for centuries as ice before it brings forth the floods. Water can wear away the tallest mountain and rust the strongest weapon if given enough time.
Water is patient.
The mother is patient.
She will need patience to raise her hatchling, feed it, protect it, teach it, care for it. Motherhood requires years of patience. The mother is constant and ever changing, there to discipline and there to comfort.
The mother is as water.

This was originally going to be a watercolour but me being me the technical pen I used for inking my lineart was water soluble so it had to be mixed media instead. At least I realised before I started painting. So after sketching and inking in the lines I coloured in the base colours with markers and then added in details with pastels and metallic pencils. If I actually had any photography skills whatsoever you'd be able to see the true colours of the piece. Roughly A3 in size.

Oriental dragons are often pictured with pearls as a symbol of prosperity and I think that the greatest prosperity you could ever have is your children, and it has always struck me that the larger pearls the dragons grasp in their claws look like dragon eggs. So the idea came about for a mother dragon patiently waiting on her pearl-like egg to hatch and bring her great prosperity. And given oriental dragons strong association with water it was also natural to compare the patience of a mother spending years raising her children to the patience of water taking years to erode its path and travel on its journey.

Please full view to get the details. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

This artwork belongs to me. Please do not steal.