By Justin Gerard

For those of you who keep up with the comings and goings at Hogwart’s, the Gallery Nucleus is having a Harry Potter Tribute Show July 9th – August 1. I was asked to contribute a painting to the show, and having thoroughly enjoyed the novels myself (via the fantastic audiobook performance by Jim Dale) I was eager to work on one.
When I started thinking, which scene should I choose? I realized that there were far too many great ones and couldn’t make up my mind. In the end I wanted to focus more on a specific character.
I landed on the misanthropic house-elf Kreacher. His story of Master Regulus and the locket is one of my favorite moments in the latter parts of the series.

Drawing on Bristol

Inkwash over pencil
(I did not end up spray-fixing this one, and you can see the pencil has all but vanished.)

“Kreacher”
9×12
Watercolor and Ink on Bristol