Painting based on the well known fantasy books by Terry Pratchett. All characters are based on the characters involved in these books, though concepts and designs of those characters are all originally my own work. Well apart from death, but you can hardly copyright a mythical figure, cough, cough, Santa. Well maybe you can. Christ, even Warner holds the rights to the Happy Birthday song, whats that about. Anyway, was painted as I am a fan of the discworld novels, though the painting was done for a friend, who is about twenty times the fan I am. So it now sits nicely I his own little room in the house.( Missus won`t let him have it in the living room HE HE )

This is based on the Terry Patchett novel - Reaper Man - where Death,sorry DEATH takes a kind of sabbatical,with is only true friend , The Death Of Rats. I have painted him playing with his favourite toy, a inept wizard called Rincewind, with he holds as a puppet. The painting was done as a kind of montage of my friends fav characters in the book, though trying to fit them all in this setting would have been difficult, so I`ll probably do more. The three grey characters on the left are the Auditors who keep a rein on society and the Discworld, to make sure there is balance in the world. Though without the added obstruction of emotion, if one of them say anything relating to `thy self` they are instantly wiped from all existance. The three characters on the right with the compass are of my own design. I call them the T.A.O. which stands for The Tree Aging Organisation. Their job is to go around the Disc, keeping tabs on the trees and adding the appropriate circles inside the trees to indicate their age. Then there is the Khoas butterfly. Pratchett based this one the saying ` If a butterfly beats it`s wings in the US, then a hurricane will develope in China.` Well in the the Discworld series he actually writes that there is actually a butterfly that does this.

*edit* I have put some detailing in on some parts for those to see

Painted in oils Measuring 4ft x 3ft.