Shamu's faery

Little known fact: Shamu is so busy, he needs his own faery to help him keep the magic alive.

New year resolution faery

She was an ordinary woman until New Year's Eve when she set a most unusual resolution: In 2008, she would grow wings and learn to fly.

Whisper of the Beloved

the text is really difficult to read because I was fighting with my pen and still having trouble with the curly script. Here is the quote:

Let silence take you to the core of life... All your talk is worthless when compared to one whisper from The Beloved. -Rumi

This started out as a response to the prompt "eyes" for the Make It Monday group. Somehow, though, as the concept expanded in my mind, the eyes were replaced by these "sealed for your protection" things I got off some vitamin bottles. They remind me how easily the eyes lead us astray in our search for meaning. So, I guess even without the eyes themselves, the eyes are still the theme of this piece for me.

Be a great farmer

A quote from my boss that he wrote up to motivate the clinicians in our program. I'm trying to get a curly printing style worked out.

Made for the Illustration Friday "seed" challenge.

Angel

Made for the Saturday Surprise "yellow" challenge. Well, it started yellow, but then some orange and bronze and even purple got in there. There is glitter in the wings that you can't see on the scan. I really like the texture.

On the half shell

She dreams of swirls and magical underwater worlds. Done for the Flickr Saturday Surprise group's "magic" challenge.

La nuit

This is for the "la nuit" challenge at Dans ma maison il y a... . It is not beautiful and artsy like most of the entries there. It's what I could do with 5 stolen minutes at work, hoping my boss wouldn't find me gleefully pawing my stash of magazine cut outs and playing with my glue stick. The background color is done with watercolor pencils - still trying to figure out exactly how those could work better for me. Better color selection would be a good start. I may rework the background color to fit better with the blues inside the house...