In a Secret Valley…

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children's story, folk tale, Grisons, illustration, Switzerland, Venetian scholars

…three Venetians discover gold oozing out of an alpine spring.

Witchy Folktales from Grisons: 3

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folk tale, goats, illustration, Switzerland, witches

The Goat

Witchy Folktales from Grisons: 2

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folk tale, Fox, Grisons, illustration, magic, Switzerland, witches

Witchy folktales from Grisons

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Cats, children's story, folk tale, graphic novel, Grisons, Music, Switzerland, witches

Bluebeard

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Bluebeard, Byzantine art, Fairy Tale, folk tale, illustration, Picture Books

The ghosts of Bluebeard’s first five wives must take care of his beard. Héloise trims it, Eleanore brings a bucket of water, Isaure is busy brushing it, Rosalinde has plenty of soap, and Blanche wields the comb.

Admire…

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Greek mythology, illustration, Partridge, Percy Peacock, SCBWI, scbwidrawthis

Glad that SCBWI started up their monthly illustrator prompt again #scbwidrawthis For this month, the word was admire. There’s also a twitter gallery of the participants who chose to tweet their work here. 

 

 

This Princess doesn’t like Pink

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Anna Komnene, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine women, children's story, illustration, Picture Books, Princess Anna Komnene

The Nougat Shoppe

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illustration, Miss Partridge & Mr. Crow, nougat candy, Picture Books

The color or colour for this week’s #colour_collective was nougat and I thought of the candy…and birds.

Butter Bird Prints

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bird detective, birds, illustration, Miss Partridge & Mr. Crow, Picture Books

The color or colour for this week’s #colour_collective is butter yellow, so I thought I would give Miss Partridge, detective for the birds, some butter yellow bird prints to study.

The Ghost of Rietberg Castle

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#colour_collective, Castle, ghost, illustration, Picture Books, Switzerland

I love #colour_collective, a weekly drawing prompt on Twitter. It has really helped me to rethink my older work. The color this week was #lilacGrey and I thought about an old character of mine named Pompeius von Planta who I sketched about 5 years ago:

And here is what I did with it for #colour_collective yesterday:

Hmmm. Hard to do this because I like the older one better. At least right now🙂