A Mad Tea Party - Gryphon, 4 of 9
Postcard created in Photoshop and printed on cardstock.
He’s a pretty good dancer when it comes to Lobster-Quadrille, but he’ll surprise you when he starts to boogie to Britney Spears.
V is for Vulture
Watercolours, pencil crayon and markers on watercolour paper. The vulture follows armies to feast on the bodies that will fall, knowing precisely just how many will be slain. Today’s letter is brought to you by ‘Vampire’.
For more info on all your favorite medieval beasts, visit The Medieval Bestiary or your local library.
Wedding Table Charges
Spring is in the air, love is about and I rediscovered some old art! Illustrated charges from my medieval wedding, created for table settings. Why sit at table one when you can sit at table sun? (aha!) They also match hanging banner and mini flags (that went on mini edible castle cakes).
Images were drawn from heraldry clip-art/ancient stuff I saw in books, then were inked, coloured with watercolours, shaded a bit with a regular pencil and re-inked.
A Mad Tea Party - White Rabbit, 3 of 9
Postcard created in Photoshop and printed on cardstock.
The poor guy. Running late, needs his gloves and fan, and a girl suddenly blows up in his house!
U is for Unicorn
Watercolours, pencil crayon and markers on watercolour paper. Sigh. The poor unicorn. Always being captured or killed.
For more info on all your favorite medieval beasts, visit The Medieval Bestiary or your local library.
A Mad Tea Party - Queen of Hearts, 2 of 9
Postcard created in Photoshop and printed on cardstock.
She made some tarts.
T is for Tiger
Watercolours, pencil crayon and markers on watercolour paper. It’s quite possible to steal a tiger’s cub – you need only to thwart the mother by throwing a glass sphere or mirror at her and she will think her reflection is her cub.
For more info on all your favorite medieval beasts, visit The Medieval Bestiary or your local library.
A Mad Tea Party - Alice, 1 of 9
The first in a series of postcards made for some theatrical friends, based on the characters in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll. I looked at illustrations by Sir John Tenniel and Victorian photographs for inspiration (and you may find my reference to my Alice here). Callooh! Callay!
S is for Sawfish
Watercolours, pencil crayon and markers on watercolour paper. The sawfish…the sawfish… for this series I’ve been doing for a while now, I have not only drawn the animals in a medieval-illustration style (with my own ‘twist’) but the portrayal of the animals has been based on descriptions and images from manuscripts. So, to mention one animal, this is my dolphin looks more like a fish than what we know as a dolphin. The medieval descriptions and illustrations of the sawfish were just too fantastic to merge with modern knowledge of a ‘real’ sawfish. And so…the sawfish is a sea monster with giant wings.
For more info on all your favorite medieval beasts, visit The Medieval Bestiary or your local library.