Postcard created in Photoshop and printed on cardstock.
She made some tarts.
Queen of our Hearts
Tag Archives: Illustrations
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.
Down the Rabbit-Hole, Through the Looking Glass
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.
Fairy Tales That Never Were 3
Pencil crayon with pen outlines on card stock.
R is for Rabbit
Watercolours, pencil crayon and markers on watercolour paper. The rabbit lives all cosy-like in his warren – until he’s chased out by ferrets.
For more info on all your favorite medieval beasts, visit The Medieval Bestiary or your local library. Or don’t. There are alot of really nice sites on the Internet you could check out that have wonderful manuscripts with illuminated letters and nicely illustrated animals. Or…you don’t have to at all.