Illustration Friday - "Polar"

Earth Day this week got me thinking about the polar ice caps, and I thought of the "Blue Marble" picture taken by the astronauts of Apollo 17. The original NASA caption read, in part, "View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap."

ACEO size, Polychromos and Prismas on black Stonehenge.

Illustration Friday - "Fortune"

I'm always excited by the good fortune of finding helpful and lovely ladybugs in my garden. However, I didn't know that their reputation as bringers of good luck is almost global. This little lady is ACEO size, Prismacolors on white Stonehenge. The reference photo is by jeroenven over at stock.xchng.

Illustration Friday - "Green"

Green, green...I went looking for inspiration in the Flickr account of my dear friend Nancy and found a lovely piece titled "morning green"...so I guess this is "morning green redux." I like the glass but not so much the table...I will only plead that I ran out of time to work on it. ;-) It's about 3" x 4", Prismacolors on Somerset Satin white.

Fairy Gossip

This is the only thing I've been working on lately apart from the IF pictures, and it took me quite a while. I worked the flower first, being too chicken to tackle the butterfly, or the fairy wings, or the fairy's skin...but eventually I got around to it all and I'm happy with the result. I'm thinking of a companion piece which I may start soon...

It's about 10" x 11", Prismacolor pencils on white Stonehenge.

Illustration Friday - "Snap"

At first I was just going to draw some snapdragons for this topic, and then I started thinking about snap DRAGONS, and the next thing you know...SnapDragons! The line art for the dragons' heads is from Neon Dragon's Art Page, and I have totally not done them justice. There are absolutely lovely coloring pages there.

But I digress. SnapDragons is a little bigger than my usual ACEO size, about 2.5" x 4", Prismacolors on Rising Stonehenge white vellum.