Eleanor Veness

ARTWORK

These are part of a series of drawings I drew for a festival programme which didn’t make it into the final copy, continued. The theme is ‘Beneath The Aether’, this is soil and seeds collection. 🌱🍃🐛 - - #art #illustration #illustr
These are part of a series of drawings I drew for a festival programme which didn’t make it into the final copy. The theme is ‘Beneath The Aether’, this is the under-the-sea collection. 🪼🐠🐙 - - #art #illustration #illustrations #
A portrait of friends: Ralph and Grace. Thankfully they like it enough to carry it everywhere they go. A belated/early leaving present. Painted in gauche. I brought out the similarities in their colouring and curly hair. - - #art #portrait #friends #
The birthing of the Minotaur: A labyrinth. - - #art #mythology #minotaur #labyrinth #sketchbook #drawing #graphite #colouredpencil #guache #ink #collage
Drawing the giant, the myth of Albany. More output from the RDS drawing mythology course. - - #art #rds #mythology #myth #albany #giant #collage #mixedmedia #greatbritain #pencildrawing #colouredpencil #graphite
The myth of Albany, illustrated. The foundation story with which Britain was established. 👑 - - #art #myth #mythology #rds #albany #uk #britain #ancient #collage #mixedmedia #graphite #pencil #drawing #colouredpencil
More mythology drawing course output: The rainbow spiral staircase with which to enter another dimension. 🌈 - - #art #rainbow #spiral #staircase #oilpastel #ink #blackink #mythology #drawing #rds
I’ve started a course in drawing mythology through the Royal Drawing School. This was my first drawing for it, imagining gateways and portals. I used inspiration from fantasy films I loved as a child, including Labryrinth and The Last Unicorn.
Aurora Sky: The final assembled piece, picturing the opening scene of a recently completed script. The final piece in the accompanying imagery to the story. Featuring Noor, the protagonist. Script reads: ✍️ “Noor, 32, a sinewy woman of Arab her
Aurora Sky piece, layer three: The main character, Noor, the female embodiment of Orpheus. 🎭 - - #art #screenplay #script #Orpheus #Orpheusmyth #character #characterdesign #maincharacter #Noor #portrait #protagonist #story #sketchbook #graphite #pen
Aurora Sky piece, second layer. Part of a larger set which concludes the series in accompaniment to my latest script. This part reads: 🪦 “Underneath the sky: A graveyard, packed with graves, old and new, of all shapes and sizes. A chilling Nov
Background piece to ‘Aurora Sky’: the constellation of Centaurus. This is the first layer of a larger artwork which will conclude my artwork series in companion to a recently finished script. The opening reads: “In a vivid blue bla
Following a hectic January, I was compelled to think about Janus, the two-faced Roman God, looking out toward past and future. I drew myself in profile and in flip reverse in oil pastel and graphite. 🖍️ This year so far I have been diving within m
The Cerberus Arms: A gateway to the pub-like mouth to the Underworld in my latest script, overshadowed by a three-headed, multi-breed of dog. 🐶 “A glowing light emanates from the statue, become animate. The three dogs: An Airedale Terrier, a
A sketch for the Underworld Imagery: Two. 🪽🎨 - - #art #underworld #script #mixedmedia #sketch #sketchbook #orpheus #orpheusmyth #lyre #exit #pencildrawing #charcoal #oilpastel
Underworld Artwork: 1. The Entrance 🪜 The first of the visual representation pieces from the Orpheus myth-style Underworld in my latest script. ✍️ “Noor steps, cautiously, down a treacherous spiral staircase, her qanun strapped to her back. Do
I have recently completed and submitted a TV drama script: a modern-day adaptation of the Orpheus myth. My protagonist, a female Orpheus, ventures into her “Underworld”, wading through a menagerie of visions and creatures. I intend to dev
My creativity has been intermittent lately. In the past month, I went on honeymoon for three weeks and came back to a strange emotional tidal wave (put in motion by jet lag and getting my booster vaccine). All this has been a catalyst for a new kerne
I needed seriously to unblock, and this is the only way I know how. I enjoy the rawness of drawing in oil pastel, for me it’s as though the oil is connecting to the heart. These drawings are abstract expressionist, revealing themselves spontane