Tales and Legends (2)

This is the South African - urban - legend of 'Pinky-Pinky', an evil spirit or 'tokoloshe' believed to lurk in public bathrooms in order to accost and molest young girls. If you're wearing pink underwear you are in particular danger... apparently this entity causes real consternation and hysteria in school restrooms across the country, and is even more of a good reason for girls to go to the loo in pairs...

Tales and Legends

Sometimes things just come together... I had done the watercolour sploshes as a test swatch for some colours I was trying together... then I found a butterfly wing in the garden and put it absentmindedly in my studio - saw it fit the curve on the watercolour, thought about what to do about that - flying/breaking up - Icarus! Tales and Legends! Voila!

Plain last

and then I thought this would be even plainer - OK, I must go and get a life...

Plain

This is my second attempt at this topic - the first wasn't nearly as plain as this - see previous post on how I got here.
P.S. - THEN I had to just do one more - see next post

1st attempt at Plain

I did this one first for the 'Plain' topic... don't know if Claudia Schiffer ever has days like this, but I sure do!...it's not meant to be a self-portrait, but I did have to get reference from the mirror, unfortunately :-(

I had done a little sketch to plan it, and then decided

that it had a really plain and simple quality that

would suit the theme better, and I liked the way

the mirror looks like a 'plain' body - no arms

and legs to clutter it up, so that led to my final

version, which I will post after this...

Stitch

For fun, decided to do an Illustration Friday project for the first time today (though it's a Tuesday - is that OK?). This weeks topic is 'Stitch', and I thought I'd turn the traditionally feminine, delicate art of embroidery into something that looks like hard work by a strong, muscular, butch little lady. She ended up looking quite cute and girly though - and she did put her make-up on! I did the lace by stencilling through a bit of scrap lace with a brush dabbed in some black shoe polish - was quite pleased with the way it came out.