Happy holidays, Rinnington!

[linnpuzzle.livejournal.com]

Recipient: rinnington!
Artist: nettle_mooneye
Title: Candlelight
Rating: G? WS, at any rate.
Pairing: Aziraphale & Crowley, or Aziraphale/Crowley, whichever you like better
Prompt: Crowley/Aziraphale, Crowley and Aziraphale friendship, Crowley gen, or Aziraphale gen; Christmas themed, fluff, vulnerable!Crowley or prissy!Aziraphale, tea or baked goods, historical fic or modern fic



Footnote: 'It should be noted that, shortly after this incident, in the spirit of Christmas, giving and all that, the car was miraculously repaired. The owner said it was as good as new.

Or perhaps even better.'

Comments

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Crowley! These are gorgeous images; I especially like the inset sketches, they feel almost Victorian (except for the car, of course).

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Oooh!, lovely! Very Voctorian-Christmas-y!

And the central picture looks as cozy as the kitchen at Uncle Bilbo's place ....!

I love how there's more colour and focus within the gold frame. I love how the outer four pictures are monochrome pen-and-ink-ish pieces, while the colour draws the eye to the centre of the whole thing.

Gorgeous detail and texturing and lighting in the central picture -- the gathered snow on the leaded glass windows, the candles reflected there, the embroidery on the tablecloth, the faces! If you're not a professional artist, Secret Artist, you should seriously consider steering yourself in that direction!

[argyleheir.livejournal.com]

These images are beautifully evocative -- the black and white works so nicely with the central colors. I'm very much reminded of illustrations in Victorian novels.

[melandry.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I love the little inset street scenes. As others have been saying, very Victorian and full of holiday atmosphere!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Thinking about this: this piece would make an absolutely wonderful print/poster, and I'd love to own one.

Does that thought make you eager or nervous, O Secret Artist? ;]

[such_heights]

This is sosowonderful in every way, and I love the footnote!

[magicicada.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful. Crowley and Aziraphale both look fantastic. I really love the way you used the prompts, and the story it tells.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty. I like the top left and the bottom right pics particularly. Lonely, but pretties...

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

This is so, so sweet and gorgeous! It's an amazing concept, and so well done. :D

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Wow! I have no idea how you have done this, but it's absolutely, breathtakingly gorgeous!!! I don't know what I like best, because I somehow like every tiny bit of it. It all looks real enough to touch, especially the snow. And you can almost smell tea and books in Aziraphale's cozy room... But I also love the pencilled pictures very much. The nostalgia they create. The background looks like a postcard, somehow, perhaps because of the gold frame, but it conveys the overall mood very nicely. I admire your how you did the houses and streets (and of course Crowley *g*).
I think you may just have resurected my dead and buried Christmas spirit.

[rinnington.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful, Secret Artist! The way you tied all of the drawings together was lovely and effective, as was the contrast between the sketches and the (gorgeous) color. The entire piece is just warm and lovely and fills me with happy Christmassy fuzzy thoughts, which is about as much as you could want in a gift. You're an amazing artist, and I feel incredibly lucky to recieve such a fantastic and beautiful gift. I feel as though I am running out of adjectives here. XD

And you've no idea how much it was killing me all day yesterday, when people kept telling me how beautiful my gift was and I couldn't get on to see it >EEE But I can't think of a better way to return from Paper Hell, so thank you!

[erinptah]

That is absolutely gorgeous. The artwork itself and the layout as a whole.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's gorgeous. I love the balance of the coloured pics and those incredibly detailed pencil drawings. I especially love the wistful expression in the top left, and the huddled loneliness in the night at bottom right.

I'm deeply jealous of your talent.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

This is just spectacularly beautiful - the central painting, the landscape, captures the feel and the light of a clear, cold, still winter night so gorgeously I can just feel it...well, the weather IS like that here tonight, but this just brought it indoors. :)

And the balance and composition of the stories, and the sense of loneliness in the black-and-white drawings contrasted with the warmth and friendliness of the central one with the two of them...wow. Just wow. And Aziraphale looks adorably fussy. :D

[briebribeez.livejournal.com]

I do like the sketches.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

This is, far and away, the best GO art I've ever seen. Stunning pencil work, stunning colour work, and characterisations of C/A that ring amazingly true. Bless you for doing this, whomever you are.

[lady-oneiros.livejournal.com]

I am speechless. I love the sketchy insets--they set off the rest of the picture nicely and frame it well. My favorite part is the square--it's so quiet and peaceful...the perfect winter's night. And I am in love with the lights on the tree. Excellent job!

[use-theforce-em.livejournal.com]

O.O

I....

O.O

I can't.... It's too... do you have any idea how instantaneously happy this made me? The complexity of it, the colors and the feeling of winter you get just by looking at it. The pencil drawings are very lonely, as people have said, and so wonderfully expressive. But the center pic; oh my God, my heart has melted. I can imagine this happening to them so easily, I can practically hear the dialogue in my head, and it's not easy to evoke that with me from one picture alone. The concern in Aziraphale's face as he fusses and forces tea on our poor shivering demon. Marvelous.

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

This is simply stunning. The composition itself is just lovely--I love the little circle insets best--and it does feel rather Victorian, too.

My favorite bit is probably the image to the upper right. While the piece as a whole has a rather quiet feel to it, that one is more dynamic, and makes me chuckle.

In general, I'm just impressed by your skill and attention to detail. The shapes of the buildings, the wooden paneling and design on the table in the first circle, the packages falling off the back of the car . . . fantastic! Bravo.

[refche.livejournal.com]

This is amazing! The scene is wonderfully evocative and the b/w art adds a perfect narrative of a sort that's just really creative and well-executed. Wonderful!

[caedesdeo.livejournal.com]

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