28 Friday Apr 2017
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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!
20 Thursday Apr 2017
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The #scbwidrawthis prompt word for April was “surprise”. Here is Señor Don Gato as a pull toy….
24 Friday Mar 2017
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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.
20 Monday Feb 2017
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Glad that SCBWI started up their monthly illustrator prompt #scbwidrawthis for 2017! For this month, the word was love.
06 Friday Jan 2017
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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
28 Friday Oct 2016
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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!
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09 Friday Sep 2016
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…three Venetians discover gold oozing out of an alpine spring.
26 Friday Aug 2016
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