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Niniri and Arwen UPDATED

by Colleen Doran on June 20th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, A Distant Soil Blog Posts, Blog, Colleen's Work, Colleen's Work, Commissions, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings

I have a load of A Distant Soil remarqued editions to ship out, and it looks like I miscalculated: I have one complete set of the hardcover limited remarqued editions left. I will not break up the set. UPDATE: SOLD

Here’s a sketch of Niniri.I’d like to touch this up a tad before I ship it out.

I’ve been experimenting with digital paintings of some of these sketches. For a look at some of the other works, CLICK HERE. If interested in the remaining remarqued edition set, please click the BOOK SHOP link for more info and inquire. SOLD.

Also, I’ve decided to make some of my sketch cards from various projects available for sale. Here is an Arwen card from the Lord of the Rings Masterpieces set. I’m not going to post everything until I am sure I will offer it for sale to discourage counterfeiting of the cards

Prices range from rock bottom $200 to $300. I have two Marvel masterpieces cards for sale now. A Storm and a Wolverine, 3/4 figure.

Yes, these are official cards, not ACEO, not aftermarket. UPDATE: Arwen is SOLD.

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Swim with Elf-Fin

by Colleen Doran on April 28th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Culture, Comics, Culture, Literature, Fantasy

Wow, I don’t know what to say about this except go buy it, it’s gorgeous! Brought to you by the nice people from Black Mermaid Productions, Jozef Szekeres and Julie Ditrich, sometime guest bloggers on this site!

We’d like to take you to the fringes – the threshold – of a world known as Elf~Threaal, which is inhabited by mer-elves known as the Elf~Fin. Within the collective are smaller pods and close-knit communities who answer to themselves and also to an ancient order of beings. They swim amongst glimmerish, splash-downers, and sharps, as well as other exotic ocean creatures. They live in canyons and grottos with lush undersea gardens, and sometimes they even dare to challenge the unpredictable Open Waters.

Elf~Fin is an ongoing tale (or perhaps it’s more apt to say “tail”) comprising several comic book series, starting with an underwater love story called Hyfus & Tilaweed.

We’re releasing a limited edition of 250 for this print run. It will ONLY be available through our website and at some Australian conventions and fairs later in the year. When it’s sold out it’s sold out!

See more sneak peeks with links here.


To order NOW go HERE.

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Cherokee Girl by Charles de Lint

by Colleen Doran on April 5th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Culture, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Culture, Literature, Culture, Music

Music by fantasy author Charles de Lint.

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Elf King Art for Christchurch Earthquake Relief

by Colleen Doran on March 1st, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings

I hope you like this art enough to buy a t-shirt. Because I have donated all proceeds from the sale of this image to THEONERING.NET’s efforts to raise money to help the people of Christchurch, New Zealand. Get t-shirts, prints, posters, cards, and even an iPad case. Which I want.

This color art has never been available before, and I will never make this image available for sale anywhere else.

For more information about the Christchurch earthquake, go HERE.

The shallow 6.3 magnitude quake centred at the port town of Lyttelton struck at 12.51pm last Tuesday, killing at least 154 people, with police expecting the final toll to reach “around 240″.

BTW, you can CUSTOMIZE the way you want the art to appear on the product, such as moving the image about, making it larger or smaller, and adding text. If you don’t like white borders on your postcard, or greeting card, just move the image about, and they are gone.

For example, the iPad case shown has a wide border around the image.

I designed mine to fill the entire item:


The direct link to the ZAZZLE shop is here. Please consider buying at least one postcard or other item for the benefit of the people of Christchurch. Thank you.

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Hobby Shop owner rips off LOTR titan Peter Jackson

by Colleen Doran on January 27th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Culture, Fandom, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings

Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings films, miniature collector and uber-fan, patronized Detroit suburb’s Michigan Toy Soldier shop for his collecting needs. Store owner Rick Berry paid Jackson back by running up $189,000 in fraudulent charges on Jackson’s American Express credit card.

Berry claimed he needed the money to keep his suffering business afloat after a business partner embezzled money from his shop, leaving him in dire straits.

Berry also claims he didn’t believe Jackson would notice the unauthorized charges, most of which were used to buy more merchandise for Michigan Toy Soldier. He says he intended to pay the money back when his business recovered.

Someone is ethically challenged.

Berry pled guilty to the charges and will be sentenced next week.

Mr Jackson is in hospital undergoing surgery for an ulcer.

Video at Detroit 4.

Hat tip: Mike Duffey

I’ve got an attic full of LOTR sculptures, booty from a hobby seller who embezzled money from me, too. It’s nice to know I have something else in common with Peter Jackson!

CLICK HERE to return to our awesome webcomic. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it will become a part of you. And it won’t steal your Amex card. Because when you shop our super-sale of books and art, you pay via secure Paypal!

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