Tanya Bengtsson

↟ Illustrator | Webdesigner ↟ ◃ Behance: Tanya Bengtsson ▹ ◃ Artstation: tanya_bengtsson ▹ www.tanyabengtsson.se

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How to Paint a Realistic Strawberry 🍓

“It's too early for strawberries. But the clearing is filled with their leaves and their little white flowers, like fallen stars. The wishing well was covered, too, so that only someone who knew it was there would have really noticed it. It looks like a barrow under the green; somewhere fairies or goblins might live.” ― Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief

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Running Dog

Animated in Photoshop CS6 some year ago.

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Litten - Pokémon

I like reading the beginning of books the most, because then I have a potential, and full adventure in front of me where everything can happen. If the beginning is not good enough I usually don’t bother reading the rest.

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Plants as Animals

What would plants look like if they where to turn into animals? This is what I imagined a Ficus Elastica Tineke would look like as a creature.

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Ainsworth - The Ancient Magus' Bride

Elias Ainsworth, one of my favorite characters from the manga The Ancient Magus' Bride.

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The Monarch Backpacker

Inspired by the monarch butterfly which travels 2,500 miles every year, but also inspired by other insects that can both be creepy and beautiful.

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Mouse Warrior

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Spirited Away - Haku

“Listen, Haku. I don’t remember it, but my mom told me… Once, when I was little, I fell into a river. She said they’d drained it and built things on top. But I’ve just remembered. The river was called the Kohaku River. Your real name is… Kohaku.” – Chihiro Ogino, Spirited Away  

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The Mongolian Eagle Hunter

The eagle - brave, fearless, noble and powerful. This eagle though is not so sure of that. Good thing he has confident companions.

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The Cougar & Jerboa

Jerboa is not a nice boss. Perhaps Cougar should eat him?

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The Concerned Horseicorn (the unicorn with no horn)

“For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse.”

― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

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Sleipner

So....did you know that Loke (Loki the Norse god) is a mother? And that his son is a eight-legged horse named Sleipner? And that he gave his son the horse to Odin as a gift?

Perhaps...

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Alebrije

Alebrijes are mythical creatures from Mexico in bright colors and patterns. This is my alebrije which is inspired by the four animals armadillo, guanaco, finch and aoudad.

The first time that I remember taking notice of this Mexican creature was, if I remember right, after watching the amazing movie “Coco” from 2017.

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Deer-Whippet Creature

My own dogs, two whippets, are a great inspiration when I paint. The shape of sighthounds can add beauty and grace to anything I think.

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The Oriental Dragon

“Beware the darkness of dragons, Beware the stalker of dreams, Beware the talons of power and fire, Beware one who is not what she seems. Something is coming to shake the earth, Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice Unless the lost city of night can be found.” ― Tui T. Sutherland

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Wilmer Whippet - My Best Friend

A little more than 8 years ago I went to pick up my first dog, a little whippet I named Wilmer. He and I have been through so much together that it feels like he has always been there by my side. We have been together during so many changes, ups and down, new friends, old friends, from high school to university to work. I hope that we still have many more happy years left together. 🐾

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Lurcher portrait

This is a somewhat old portrait I made in watercolor of my moms lurcher. My mom adopted a lurcher from Ireland almost 2 years ago, her name is Alva but she is also called Cookie, Alven (means “the Elf” in swedish) and Pepper (that was her original name). She loves food more than anything and running like a silly fool in the garden.

Alva has been scared of all kind of things such as her own shadow, darkness, other dogs, weird people and normal people, but she has become much better (even though she still has her moments of crazy).