The Little Wooden Warg

Horc horc horc! Merry Orcmas everyone, and Happy Orclidays!

If you were a good orc-kid this year, Santa Tusks here (a relative of Santa Claws) will give you a beautiful two-handed battle-axe. And if you were a good orchid, Santa Tusks is illiterate, so he'll give you a two-handed battle-axe too.

Bad puns aside, I've wanted to paint an pensive orc in an everyday situation (i.e. something other than smashing people's skulls) for a loooong time, so Christmas was as good an opportunity as any. There's something about the juxtaposition of fantasy characters and mundane situations that I really enjoy... mermaids playing cards, trolls knitting, giants redecorating their favourite mountain... I'd love to paint all these quiet, surreal images.