Altered Book - the last pages

Two images from the fairy calendar [Walter Jenks Morgan 1847-1924]

The background from another calendar of close ups, this is raindrops on Lads Mantle Leaf

The background image is iridescent colours in foam bubbles.

Found text.

Another fairy with a few extras.

A collage of found images and art work.

Altered Book - Pages 126-138

For these collages I used old calendars, magazines plus art work. You can probably tell that one of the calendars was all about fairies [historical art]. The other was close -ups of things, above is a scallop shell as a background.

The lady [by John Simmons 1872] was from the fairy calendar but the man and text were from an old Woman's Weekly, early 1980's

The background is 'dark peat stained water of a river in flood', the fairy by John Atkinson Grimshaw in 1879, the dog from the Woman's Weekly.

This is a close up of a Macaw's wing and characters from the fairy calendar.

I gave the fairy a paintbrush to finish the pretty background.

She is from The Fairy Dance by Grace Jones c1920

The background features raindrops on a Lady's Mantle leaf.

The fairy by Walter Jenks Morgan [1847-1924]

The house was from an old arts magazine.

Grimoire Book - Pages 17-29

This and the next drawing are my versions of pages by Malcolm Bird from 'The Witches Handbook'.

I think his drawings are wonderful and the rhymes are funny.

The leaf fairy or thrush sprite is my version of a painting by Howard Swindell.

Check Pinterest for the fabulous original.

The original of this little fairy can be found in Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book.

Art Everyday for a Month Book - Pages 25 to 31

Exotic Fairy

The Illustration Friday challenge is exotic.

Created on an android tablet. I used some embroidery work for her clothes and skeleton leaves for wings.

Mushrooms [CO]

I created this collage of mushrooms and fairy for the Collage Obsession challenge - mushrooms.

All the images are from The Graphics Fairy

A few years ago I bought some wooden mushrooms for the kiddy [me] but I didn't like how they looked so I painted them.

And I thought I would share this mushroom with you again, it was in my garden in 2010 but that was the only time I have ever seen them [there were 2]. The fairy is still hanging around somewhere though.

Dunstanburgh Castle, Mushroom Fairy

We went to Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland on Tuesday

And I spotted this fairy on the mushroom in my garden yesterday

Fairy's and Butterflies

Another doodle from a sketch book - various kinds of pens