This month's Featured FanArtist is a marvelous artist and architect from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who specializes in the unsinkable ship, Ron and Hermione. She bases her characters on the film actors, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, but goes far beyond that. For July, the one and only --

You can find more of her art at her LiveJournal: http://lillywmw.livejournal.com/

Also on deviantART: http://lillywmw.deviantart.com/

For an in-depth view of this warm and wonderful artist, be sure to check out the fantastic interview she gave to the Brazillian HP fansite, Oclumensia:

Interview with Oclumensia

And, Lilly would also like to share with you a couple of amazing HP-experiences she has had, and detailed on her LiveJournal:

Rupert birthday love
Rupert watches Lilly

Spend some time with Ron and Hermione in lillywmw's special art garden. You might get bitten by the love bug, if not by a gnome.

Thank you so much, Jamie and all The Leak Cauldron Fanart Gallery staff for this wonderful surprise you gave me! I´m really flattered!

You made me very happy with your words in this first post of this thread, Jamie!
Thank you so much for it and all the support you always gave to me in this site and also at LiveJournal.

I hope that the members of the gallery and forum could appreciate my drawings, knowing that it´s only have been made for my love for this amazing world JKR created.
I don´t commission my work and it all made using traditional techniques.

I can say that first of all I´m a portraitist, but you´ll never find a picture of the actors in the situations I draw them.

Lately I´ve been working a little more doing illustrations for fanfictions. I think is a good opportunity to give to lot of talented people that have been working, like me, only by their love for this fandom, to have their working “coming alive” on a picture, since, even I also love to make illustrations for the books, JKR has a lot amazing people illustrating them not to mention, Daniel, Rupert and Emma themselves representing the characters.

Some of them are rated R and Jamie told me she´ll put a link for these here and I will also post some I didn´t add to my gallery here soon.

Anyway I truely hope you enjoy them, seeing them first of all in an artistic way.

I will answer any doubt of you as far as possible here, because my English skills are not by far, my best quality!

Thank you all again for your attention and I´m looking forward for the home page update! ;)

I already have a new work posted today at my page!And I would love if you could take a look. It´s based in a famous R&Hr Fanfic called “Never Enough” by the fanfic writer Evanesco75

Title: “I´ve been dreaming of this…”
Rating: PG13
Medium: watercolor and watercolor pencils
Characters: Ron & Hermione
Note:I add to the post a passage of chapter 32 of "Never Enough" that I tried my best to make it looks a PG-13.



FULL IMAGE OF `I` VE BEEN DREAMING OF THIS` PLEASE SCROLL UP DOWN THE SIDE BAR TO SEE IT

Thanks for stopping by, lillywmw!

One of my favourite older pieces of hers is this --

Here in the FanArt Gallery

I just LOVE the way she has Hermione's fingers entwined in Ron's hair. Very evocative!

I really love the detail in the pieces, especially in the hair. It's as if every strand is represented. Good work!

Fabulous artist. I love the way she draws Hermione. It's exactly how i picture her

lillywmw has just uploaded this fantastic new image!

It's a lovely image of daddy Ron and baby Hugo playing with a snitch, and can be found here in the FanArt Gallery.

*is stunned and amazed*

Wow you're a really talented artist!

I've been looking through and I adore this picture. I love Klimt and this is a wonderful interpretation of The Kiss; the golden colours, the expressions, and as blue4t pointed out, the hair! Lol, it's brilliant!

This one is very pretty too.

lillywmw is another artist whose work I've seen around, and never really knew who had done the fantastic pieces. Once I found out she was in our gallery I KNEW we had to feature her! I am amazed at the amount of detail which she uses in her pieces color wise. They are just so bright and vibrant.

One of my favorite peices, and one of the first once I noticed is this one:
found here in the galleries. The hair in that picture is an excellent sample of the great coloring and detail. It just looks so realistic due to the great care the artist took while drawing it.

Oh, I love the richness in texture. It reminds me of some style but my rusty art-memory won't allow me to put a finger on it.

This piece had me melting when looking through her album. The interaction between the three is just gorgeous!

One thing I really appreciate about fan art is the chance to see a different interpretation of the characters I have only read about, such as lillywmw's vision of Lavender Brown --

Here in the FanArt Gallery

I absolutely love the inner turmoil going on in this picture!

Wow! I'm just amazed by lillywmw's work. Being a bit of a Rupert fan, I really enjoy her representation of both Rupert and Ron. I'm really glad that we are spotlighting such a wonderful artist.

Thank you so much, everybody for your wonderful comments!I´m so glad with all the attention you are giving to me and my work! And the icon contest was a wonderful surprise! I love all of them!

I want to invite everybody to watch my last work, a tribute to a fanfic that is one of my favorites as of many of HP fans, “The Price of Love” by RougueSugah. Come take a look on it at my LiveJournal and comments are always welcome!

Title: “The Price of Love”
Rating: R
Characters: Ron and Hermione
Medium: watercolor and watercolor pencils (NO Photoshop)

Another stunning image, lillywmw! Thank you for sharing it and it's inspiration!

As usual, it's the little details you include that amaze me (in this case thei matching neclaces.) I absolutely am enthralled with the expression on Ron's face . . . concern, and love seems etched on it. Wow!

One pic that I totally love is this Quidditch one...



I really love the design of the Quidditch jerseys (reminds me a bit of the Portuguese soccer jerseys which I lurve) and the protectors give it sort of a pretty nifty and dangerous look. Love it.

Wow Lily. I never saw fanart before, and seeing yours today made me gasp. I was thinking, wow, you're talented, awesome, brilliant.
I'm a huge Ron and Hermione shipper, and I'm gonna go and read your fanfiction! I love fanfiction and your fanart.

OMG absolutely amazing drawing! you are so talented!!

Congraulations to LillyWMW! I'll say a few words, I love the style and colouring that Lilly uses, I love the way that they entwine both their imagination with the Harry Potter actors such as Emma and Rupert. I love the emotion that goes into their artwork, I have to say Ron and Hugo is one of my fave pieces of theirs. I just wish they had made Ron have facial hair. Great job and keep up the good work! *sigh* I wish I could upload things to LeakyLounges Art Gallery but my scanner is broken. I got all my art supplies today to start my GCSE course in September so I should use some of them.

Thanks everybody for your wonderful words to my work!You can´t imagine how you warmed my heart and made me happy!
I want to thank also all the graphic artists that made the icons for the challenge!I love them all, and if it´s possible, I will say that all of you are winners for me, how good you made me feel watching them!

Tonight I made a huge upload of pictures.
I guess now my profile on TLC gallery has everything I ever done related with HP fanart.Some of them are rated PG-13 and R and are based on R&Hr fanfics I love, so they won´t appear on the home page.
I hope you all can take a look.

And there´s a piece that like my Ron and Hermione version of Klimt´s "The Kiss" is one of my favorites works because it´s also based on a real sculpture that is one of my all time loved pieces in art, the sculpture "The Kiss" by Rodin!
This drawing was elected in the beginning of the year at the LiveJournal as "The Best Adult R&Hr fanart", so the love it recieved is one more reason for it´s be so special for me!




Many kisses***

Lilly

I am so much in awe at the "classic" art pieces that lillywmw has used to model some of her own H & R fan art upon. In addition to the Rodan, there is my personal favourite, after Gustav Klimt --

Just absolutely stunning! You can find it in all it's huge hi-rez glory here in the TLC Fan Art Gallery.

I find this picture amazing. First of all the detail of Ron and Hermione is just fantastic. They look so happy and in love. Then you look at to the detail surrounding Ron and Hermione and I'm even more amazed. The coloring is just so vibrant and wonderful. I really love this piece and am glad to see that it is this month's banner.

Congrats Lilly! It was only a matter of time before your wonderful art got special recognition here! I can say I've always been in awe of the details you put in and around your characters. Your work is an inspiration of dedication I like to take a peek at the light sometimes ;) and you're one I always go back to.

Keep it up!

One image of Ron I absolutely adore by lillywmw is this: "NEVER ENOUGH THE BLACK KNIGHT" --

Here in the FanArt Gallery

Totally BA, and the Chudley Cannons wrist tattoo is a fantastic touch!

I just look at that and worry that when Ron approaches retirement he'll be the next Mad eye Moody.

Thank you so much my friends SlytherinFiend and Hagiographer13 for your words and support!

And nimbus xl this picture is based in one of the most famous fanfics of the latest times called "Never Enough" by Evanesco75 which you can find in fanfics sites like Checkmated and SimplyUndeniables.
The tattoo on his wrist means "Clandestine Combatant".
I feel sad when I see that the only thing you watched on my drawings is what you described in your post, and don´t even tried to understand how and why it was done before to put a comment like this.

Anyway I have a new work posted on my LiveJournal for those who can see others things in my pictures, it´s again based in another passage of this same fanfic above.

Title: ”It’s not over!”
Rating: PG13
Medium: gouache and watercolor pencils over Canson 180gr A4 paper. NO Photoshop.
Characters: Ron and Hermione
Notes: on the post there´s a passage from Evanesco75´s “Never Enough”
rating R.

There stunning wish I had a talent like it. joxy

In honour of Rupert Grint's 20th birthday today, lillywmw has uploaded a new, wonderful image --

Here in the FanArt Gallery

Great job, Lilly, and happy birthday, Rupe!

The ever-fabulous lillywmw has just uploaded this amazing image of (who else?) Ron and Hermione --

Here in the FanArt Gallery

This was to accompany a fan-fic called "In the Orchard" and it is absolutely stunning! The vibrant colours heighten the passion of the moment and I am in love with how she has drawn their hair!