Experimenting for #colour_collective

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Castle, characters, illustration, Medieval Times, Picture Books, snails

The #colour_collective prompt this week was lava, so here are my snails living in a lava-colored castle and dining on their favorite marsh grass & moat slime. Big thanks to Patricia Keeler  and Aram Kim for photoshop pointers 💛 …and I have to keep trying and experimenting!

April Surprise!

The #scbwidrawthis prompt word for April was “surprise”.  Here is Señor Don Gato as a pull toy….

Lady & Dragon

I was looking at the Unicorn tapestry again and thought that maybe the lady would like to have a pet dragon instead of a unicorn. Thanks again to #colour_collective for the color inspirations: Clover Green for the left and Blue Bell for the right.

 

#scbwidrawthis for February

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Castle, SCBWI, scbwidrawthis, snails

Glad that SCBWI started up their monthly illustrator prompt #scbwidrawthis for 2017! For this month, the word was love.

Get Inspired by #illustrationprompts: Be the Content Creator

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#colour_collective, illustration, scbwidrawthis, SCWI

Happy to share my article for the SCBWI Bulletin Winter 2017 about the wonderful illustration prompts on social media like #scbwidrawthis #colour_collective #pinchpunchpost #inktober 

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Imperial Purple Chess Game

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Anna Komnene, chess, history, illustration, imperial, purple, The Alexiad

 

THE earliest European writer who mentions chess is the Byzantine princess and historian, Anna Komnene, of Constantinople. She calls the game Zatrikion, and says that the Greeks derived it from the Babylonians; and that her father, Alexios loved to play. So here she is learning from her father!

Witchy Folktales from Grisons — The Cat, part I

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Cats, illustration, magic, Switzerland

Ghostly Folktales from the Grisons….. the Key

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ghost, graphic novel, Grisons

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