What dark thoughts is this black fairy of the night dreaming up.Maybe she is planning on casting a spell on someone. Dark Thought by Renee Biertempfel - 11 x 17

Artist Bio
I have loved and drawn Faery and Fantasy art as long as I can remember... I grew up in the countryside of Harmony Pa. Growing up in the country was wonderful for the imagination. We were surrounded by woods filled with large old stones. This is where I started getting ideas to draw faeries and other magical images. I was also inspired by different other things like "role playing" I used to love making and drawing characters for friends and myself. The other big influence was watching Robin Of Sherwood a show the BBC created back in the early 80’s. Years later I ended up going to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and got my degree in Visual Communications. Not long after I was hired on by a company based outside of Pittsburgh that manufactured gift items. I worked in the gift industry for five years as a gift designer and illustrator creating products from wind chimes to decorative home decor. Eventually I move on to other companies creating signs,advertising,photo retouching and restoration. That’s were I discovered digital colorization when I was colorizing old vintage photographs. I use this now with my illustrations by scanning in my graphite drawn art work and colorizing them in Photoshop. During the day I worked but at home I continued to draw faeries and other fantasy art inspired by the images of Alan Lee and Brian Froud, old art like all the late victorian art, Art Nouveau and many other fantasy artists. Right now I reside in Pittsburgh Pa. with my fiance Blake who is a fantastic medieval armorer in the "SCA" and two cats Ginger and Gremlyn and a love bird Ms Phoebe.