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This fantasy-ish painting was my contribution to an artbook about "time". Concept was that one day was divided into 48 parts (each representing a time, in half-hour steps) and an artist would create a picture for that particular time. I took this as an excuse to make something with a sundial and specifically requested to get a time-slot around noon! As you can see, I ended up with "half past one, PM".

Technique of my painting is - hard to believe, I know - watercolor, in several layers, which I'm going to show here as a little step-by-step thingy.

I started with this pencil sketch. It actually kind of created itself more or less randomly; I included different types of clocks (the "classical" being the requirement of the artbook) and a sunflower because it went with my overall "sun" thing.

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...yeah, that's about the usual way I work.