book illustrations
"the fairies of plant street"
i took up watercolors to illustrate the kids' book my wife Tricia had written for our grandchildren Emily & Ace. It was a challenge I took up while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lymphoma. The idea came from Emily's letters to the tooth fairy (and replies written by her mother) pegged to a magic stick in their plant street garden.
the more i drew and painted the better i became with watercolors and it was this book that brought me back to active painting.
i did not like the standard images of fairies, but as Tricia's story ended up with the idea that fairies are everywhere in nature, i drew grubs, butterflies & creatures as fairies, and even used the wood knots in our anglesea house walls to depict fairies hiding in natural things
Flying with Raindrop in FairyLand
the key to fairyland
fairies are everywhere
note for raindrop
Emily & ace in the fairy garden
the fairy party
the wood fairies
wood fairies
the magic stick
fairy boats in the bird bath
passiontooth fairy
the fairy party
ace playing with his dinosaurs
raindrop typing a letter
believe stone
plant street
watercolor frogs
