Chapter I. L'Atelier de La Martinerie Welcome to Loreland, a place to hunt for fairytales. Real ones. Mundanity, logic, and reason all have a place. They give us laws, math, roads, and pathways that we can follow for the sake of streamlined functionality. To fully understand the past and present is to know the future. But when the dragon lurking in the shadows of the next cavern has been slain, where does the adventure go? With the death of mystery and danger comes the demise of hope. This is...

How to Paint a Moon Faerie in Watercolor Bringing the creatures of your imagination to life — one luminous layer at a time. Welcome back to my lil' painting corner of the internet! Today we're going deep into one of my favorite subjects — a faerie. Supplies: Thin watercolor brush Watercolors (I use Stonegournd Paint Co and made a custom magic palette or them!) Watercolor paper (I like Arches Hot press, but Stathmore os great too! Anthing that is at least 140lbs) Mixing Palette for color...

On the winding, luminous path of painter Alessandro Keegan by Hope Christofferson Some people find their way to painting through a single blinding revelation — a vision, a teacher, a thunderclap of purpose. Alessandro found his way through gemology. Which is to say: through a dark laboratory on 47th Street in Manhattan, a microscope, and eight hours a day spent staring into the hearts of diamonds. The paintings came anyway. They always do. In the interview Alessandro speaks on gemology,...