The Forgotten Fairy

Sometimes I forget that I am working on a painting until I find it laying in a drawer somewhere. This one only got worked on once a year for maybe the last 6 to 8 years or so.

I have decided to liberate it from the Arches Watercolor Block it was attached to and call it done after putting in some irises.

Waterlillies and a Fairy — Finished illustration

I suppose there comes a time when you have to let go and say....it's done. Since this is on my only larger sized pre-stretched watercolor paper stack I needed to get it off the board so I could start something new.

And just in time for me to have gotten my new Epson printer.

Wonder

Originally the turtle didn't exist. But the boy seemed incomplete without a companion. I imagined him as an apprentice to a great magi out on a journey to ask the moon a question.

Between sleep and wakefulness, this popped into my head and wouldn't leave until it was out on paper.

Watercolor, ink, gauche.

Queen Bee has a Guest for Tea

The Moleskine Sketch.

The rather hastily finished painting.

Thanks again to N.T. for the addition of the tea service, whose idea of the cat and battleship is seen below.

These are the products of coffee and imaginative minds.

Tree Mural for Ella

This was painted in September. My friend Erica was pregnant at the time and wanted something unique in her child's room. So she asked me if I would be willing to paint a tree. I jumped at the chance.

This was long before we would know the sex of the baby, for Ella was modest in the womb.

The sketches:

Close ups: