The Summoner looked up at Irian. Slowly he raised his arms and the white staff in the invocation of a spell, speaking in the tongue that all the wizards and mages of Roke had learned, the language of their art, the Language of Making: "Irian, by your name I summon you and bind you to obey me!"

She hesitated, seeming for a moment to yield, to come to him, and then she cried out, "I am not only Irian!"

At that the Summoner ran up towards her, reaching out, lunging at her as if to seize and hold her. They were both on the hill now. She towered above him impossibly, fire breaking forth between them, a flare of red flame in the dusk air, a gleam of red-gold scales, of vast wings—then that was gone, and there was nothing there but the woman standing on the hill path and the tall man bowing down before her, bowing slowly down to earth, and lying on it.

—Dragonfly, by Ursula K. LeGuin

Finally!

For those of you wondering at my lack of art — this is why. It is another installment in my on-going series of pieces covering all the items listed under "Fan Of" in my old deviantID, which I have been working on for well over a year now.

Anyway, tis fanart for Ursula K. LeGuin who has been a big inspiration to me and my writing. The story this is from, Dragonfly is the culmination of her Earthsea short-story collection Tales from Earthsea, and serves as a bridge (a dragon bridge) to the latest novel in the Earthsea Cycle: The Other Wind. Anyway, I highly recommend them all: those of you tired of the Harry Potter books will no doubt enjoy her introduction to Tales from Earthsea.

Oils on 14"x20" gesso'd masonite panel. Took months. Excerpt from Dragonfly © Ursula K. LeGuin, art © myself, some rights reserved.

Here is the complete list:
Anime/Manga:
Inu-Yasha
Ranma 1/2
Naruto
Fullmetal Alchemist
Movies:
The Matrix
Books:
The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
Writers:
Diana Wynne Jones
Miyazaki Hayao
<strike>Joss Whedon</strike> Neil Gaiman
Patrick O'Brian