Hitched...

Heights...

This week, my crocuses inspired me to send 2 sketches for the theme

'Spring Training' to the Blown Covers blog. One idea (not pictured) even

made it into the runners-up :) I love when stuff like that happens!!

Toy...

Beneath...

Ouch...

A trail of destruction! Here is a great initiative to help support the wildlife endangered by the oil spill on the Louisiana coast. I decided to make a ripple.

I sometimes start to sketch on tiny little pieces of paper that are just there and then... I'm bugged when I don't have room for the legs.

Focused...

Watch the birdie!

Renewal...

'Ouch' squawked the phoenix when he felt the heat. Hundreds of years had passed in the blink of an eye and the renewal process had begun again.

Making music...

a pale plaid piper + puffin

Discovering my fascination for birds...

Unbalanced...

Caution...

is advised when landing on objects with horns!

(I like this idea but grow weak at the sight of blood... thus I chose to show the soft landing.)

My owl story is developing...

Owl is such a groovy shade of blue in the 2nd illustration because he has landed on the hood of a taxi and skidded into the windshield!

Impatience...

Owl proclaims his love! Will it be requited?

An owl I'm working on...

Unfold...

Whoopee, I thought to myself as I realized my Illustration Friday word had been chosen. I saw a week of rest and relaxation unfolding before my eyes as I imagined that the hard work of coming up with the brilliant idea to illustrate this week's word was already finished. Hmmm... hmmm... + hmmm... I must have had a briliant idea in mind when I submitted this word. But, a few weeks of conquering life's daily adventures later, my brilliant idea to illustrate 'unfold' seems to have vanished... if it was ever there in the first place. I simply can't remember. So for me, it turned out to be the same procedure as every week... and instead of getting to sit around and be lazy all weekend, my treat turned out to be that lots and lots of new people visited my blog just because I suggested the word 'unfold'. How great! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and thanks to the people from IF for choosing my word :-)

My slant on

Adapt...

Shocked after having seen so many cracked eggs last week, mother hen retreated to the highest place she could find to escape and ponder life. Much to her own astonishment, while trying to keep her balance way up high in the sky, she accidentally stumbled upon the noble art of turning with the wind.

Cracked...

Hierarchy...

Way up high in the pecking order...