Tiia Reijonen's Eerily Beautiful Digital PaintingsArthaus

Tiia Reijonen is a graphic design student at Aalto University, and is from Helsinki, Finland. These amazing digital paintings she produced are incredibly detailed and engrossing. I especially love the fuchsia and golden colours of When Evil Walks Abroad, which is an alternative illustration for the book Jonathan Cabal, The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard. I also really like the haunting lighting and shadows in (Second) Playdate, which shows a young boy sewing up another boy’s arm with red thread. Norns, a couple of ink illustrations, were inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung. All these illustrations are a bit creepy but beautiful at the same time.

Crybaby

Blue

Blackbirds

January 5th

Butcher’s Boy

Harbinger

Norns

Norns – accompanying vignette

(Second) Playdate

When Evil Walks Abroad

Tom McMeekin

Tom is a writer, artist, and multi-media guru from Pennsylvania, U.S. He holds a Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication, but he has also taken several university-level courses in fine arts, art appreciation, graphic design, printmaking, and Asian art. He has been blogging for Monde Mosaic since February 2014.