Here Be Dragons

Hi!

I'm Del. I'm from Wales, but I've been living in South Africa for almost a decade now! Gosh. I live with my boyfriend and our animals. He works in web dev and animation/3D modelling, and I'm an artist. I'm fluent in Welsh as a first language and consider myself a definite Celt, with a love of all things mythological, dragons especially. I love the fantasy and sci-fi genres, whether it's books or movies or videogames (of which I play an awful lot!).

That's me. Hello! :D

I have many creative hobbies, but the one that pays the most bills is my art. I'm a mandala artist mainly, but also dabble in general line art doodling. I create colouring books for adults, and have one published through Barnes & Noble that you can find here > https://www.amazon.com/Meditative-Garden-Mandala-Coloring-Serene/dp/1454710284 :)

I create digital mandalas using free software called Krita (http://krita.org);

I also hand-draw mandalas;

And do other forms of line-art doodling, preferably abstract stuff, usually sci-fi or fantasy in nature;

You can find more of my art at http://delsdoodles.com/ and https://welshpixie.deviantart.com , http://facebook.com/delangharad , and on instagram at http://instagram.com/welshpixie

I'm a keen hobbyist photographer with a special interest in landscape and macro photography. I shoot using a Nikon D7000 with kit 18-55mm and 70 - 300mm lenses, and a Tamron f2.8 90mm macro lens. I process my photographs in Adobe Lightroom and with the Google Nik Collection.

My photography pages are:

https://500px.com/welshpixie
https://www.eyeem.com/u/welshpixie
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/1603758/
https://www.facebook.com/welshpixiepics/
http://instagram.com/welshpixiepics

I write sci-fi and fantasy mostly, but have some smut short stories published in the UK. I have a pretty short attention span so tend to write mostly short stories, though I attempt NaNoWriMo often and despite always making the word count, I rarely actually finish the novels XD

You can read my stuff here:
https://www.wattpad.com/user/WelshPixie
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/welshpixie

I'm a huge animal lover. We own several cats and a dog, mostly rescues, and we're currently fostering some tiny kittens whose mum got hit by a train and lost a leg. She's fine now, but she can't feed them herself so we're keeping them until they're on solids. They're gorgeous! They were to weeks old when we got them. They've almost grown in their first teeth now, and they've just started using their own tiny litter tray!

So - that's me in a nutshell! I'll be posting from my range of creative endeavours here, so there'll always be pretty pictures of whatever I've been working on or photographing in my posts. Thanks @mandelsage for letting me know about Steemit!