Bettina Marson

Earth cake. Practice painting in Photoshop. 

I originally started this as a painting of Mara based on the model in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, however after layers upon layers of leaves and foliage, it turned into something much more earthen and adopted an entirely different kind of symbolism. Shrine to the hallows (spirits) - from which Halloween's roots originate. :)

This piece was inspired by nights spent looking up at the stars on the Gold Coast, where streetlights illuminated the beach paths and the black maw of the ocean rocked the fishing trawlers to sleep. Circa January 2014.

Cover #illustration I made earlier in the year of a #Queenslander home, complete with disapproving curlew and ghostly crepe myrtles, for my dear friend zenfrost's latest book, Salt and Bone. 

Front cover panel of an EP cover I painted for Geppetto, a Brisbane-based musical duet between darkly talented artists Emma Dean and Jake Diefenbach.  © Bettina Marson 2012

CD cover illustration for Brisbane band Mr. Maps, circa July 2010.  © Bettina Marson 2010.

Desert dreamscape from 2011 based on central Australia. Experimenting with colour, shadow/lighting and texture in this piece. © Copyright Bettina Marson 2010

Based on the hinterlands of Queensland, Australia. A whimsical blue piece from 2010 experimenting with texture and lighting. © Copyright Bettina Marson 2010