The Rainfrog Chronicles (drawings)
Tag: drawing
Rainfrogs, enjoying the spring of 2021
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1028132999
Cold Beach
The rainfrog gathering thoughts in the river in a -5F breeze, to write a book about winter swimming.
Ink painting – red and black grim reaper
This is an ink painting on a canvas sheet, 8×11 https://www.etsy.com/listing/761615276/grim-reaper-angel-of-death-original-ink
Cows of Eastern Europe (Drawings)
I thought I might have some fun drawing cows and here they are. I paint them with ink and onto canvas. All of them are added to the shop and can be shipped worldwide.
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Here is a diamond cow, she is really a hardcore cow with a crystal clear goal to eat green grass all day and be suspicious about vans.
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Here is the strawberry city cow, she is really extremely pumped because she is high on pesticides all day. 
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Here is the cow enjoying a nice walk in the botanical garden in the fish pond. She hasn’t been out for a while so not sure of the etiquette entirely, so to blend in she eats the roses and pees on a bee to establish dominance, builds a house underwater like a beaver and lets her kids stare at the ducklings until the ducks get angry and grow back into dinosaurs and start hunting cows for revenge. #Blessed
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Here is the cow in the middle of a trust fall, she has a good cow support so she will be fine, but there is one cow stuck in the bog so a bit problematic and another one is out of the equation because she is too nervous to watch this. Cows don’t have enemies among the group.
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Cow waiting in the ticket line of the 150th Song Celebration.
Running black horse painting (ink)
Had a bit of fun with ink splashes! Here is a painting of a running black horse, I enjoyed making it a bit creepy and the color scheme must be my favorite :’)
More similar paintings at. https://www.etsy.com/shop/5erg
Monster ravens big ink painting (For sale)
My monsters never left my side
Size of the painting is roughly 3 x 4 feet.
The painting is for sale on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/609451931/big-raven-art-painting-89-x-116-cm
Location is Estonia in Europe, direct contact is siljaerg [t] gmail.
Boudoir art paintings
I’ve added a female figure sketch into the boudoir /shower set, printed posters are available of all of them, the newest painting (the third one) is available as an original also.
Check the art shop for details: https://www.etsy.com/shop/5erg
Click on the images to see the print sale listings.
The latest painting as a printed poster: https://www.etsy.com/listing/630345203/
The original painting: https://www.etsy.com/listing/616392264
The rainfrog chronicles cartoon drawings
These are ink illustrations on paper and are available here.
“The rainfrog is going to steal a cow instead” is inspired by a story I heard about the tribes in isolated forests where the process of proving yourself includes showing others that you can kill someone from the other tribe. At some point the tribe elders realized a single killing ends up being a long line of separate inter-village bloody vendettas which will never end and that isn’t useful for anyone. After that they’ve come to conclusion they will secretly start stealing cows from one another instead of killing one another. Chivalry is not dead. So if someone pisses you off, it’s a possibility that you can solve it by stealing a cow, but you have to do it in a really skillful and an impressive way.
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“The spider saga” – the rainfrog is truly considering what Mr.Tolkien has written into his diary: “True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.” And then Mandela had gone and said: “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” After that you have to consider the words of Winston Churchill “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” And at the end of the spider sagas, you can reflect on the thoughts of Oscar Wilde: “It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears, is said to be seen in San Francisco.”
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“First flower of the spring” – for a Nordic rainfrog, the spring is extremely important, because it’s rebirth for most of the nature and everyone has to relearn some of the daily things. You’ve forgotten completely how the ground looks and that there are colours in the nature, and daylight, you crash your car a couple of times because you have forgotten the Sun, you crash your bike a couple of times because you have forgotten the physics, you start remembering feelings. Sometimes this is all delayed, so you’re a bit angry at the weather, curse you, weather!
But at the end, every rainfrog gets a kick out of the first yellow blossom they see and it makes them think of the wonderful blooming summer ahead.
Raven artwork
Lets have a special day for the ravens and crows.
Another thing, no need to get too specific about the species, if you’re creating abstract artwork , but a few people will certainly point out that your demon raven isn’t genetically appropriate, so if you want to, you can be prepared then start with checking out this chart of comparison. You’ve probably never seen a raven if you don’t get out in the forests and parks but you have seen a ton of crows and jackdaws everywhere. If you want to see a raven, you need to go out into the forest and walk around for ten years and get lucky to see a huge black solo bird flying away, trying to avoid you.
After your lesson about the shapes and characters of ravens and crows and adding raven expert in your CV – if you’d like to draw one, you could continue to select only one aspect you like about them today. For example, I think the thing to notice about drawing these lovely birds is that they are very spikey in general, their bones are hollow and they are like a heap of needles. This is the general feel I’m trying to capture on the first raven/crow paintings below. It’s easier to concentrate on one aspect of the birds and then create the entire artwork around only one characteristic. For example, if you’re fascinated by the beautiful black feathers, then maybe put all your effort into drawing the part of the blue-teal-black shimmer on the feathers; maybe if you’re fascinated by the character of these smart birds, you can forget about the other details and concentrate on the eyes or a close up portrait and finally, maybe if you’re fascinated with the flight motion, forgot about all the details, and concentrate on creating paintings that have some motion in them.
Here are some examples of paintings and drawings I’ve created recently, to illustrate how to concentrate on only one aspect of the subject, decide what you’re noticing today and create your entire image around only that one aspect and forget about everything else for that day.
Paintings via www.5erg.etsy.com
The needle-pile aspect of birds, the interesting macro structure:
The talonds of birds remind the time they were still dinosaurs:
The way the birds fly in flocks in such huge numbers, it looks like a new and bigger creature:
Paintings about the motion of flying:
The dramatic view of a bird flying in the rain:
Paintings by 5erg 