This is a portrait of Green (click image to full-view), a character from my short story “Abandon All —-” which appears in The Urban Green Man Anthology, currently out from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy. I had a lot of fun with Green, both in the design and the characterization. I had in mind a character who was a bit more alien and inhuman that most versions of the Green Man. Someone who was a lot more wild and magical—a bit dangerous, but not necessarily malevolent.
Watercolor and acrylic ink on 9″x9″ cold press watercolor paper, prints available here. To read more about how I got involved in the Urban Green Man project, go here. You can also read my Q&A from the Bitten By Books online launch over here.
Art © 2013 by Goldeen Ogawa.
Goldeen Ogawa is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist. You can find more of her artwork online on her deviantART page. You can email her at goldeenogawa@gmail.com or peck at her on Twitter @GrimbyTweets.