I really like depicting castles. I can improvise a castle out of my imagination or I can select one out of my collection of castle images. Fortunately, just about every fantasy book I've ever read has a castle in it somewhere, so it makes illustration easier. If by some chance the author missed the chance to put one in a book, the artist can always make it up and the readers will love it anyway. This castle is probably on Darkover, judging from the two moons, and I named it "Edelweiss" after the famous mountain flower of Switzerland. It's one of an edition of sketches I did for a show at the long gone DarkoverCon.
Ink and colored pencils on brown paper, 7" x 10", fall 1996.
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