D is for Dog and today I must cheat and use one of Mokie’s paintings from last year, but I did paint the letters in July.

A is for Armadillo. The only attractive thing about this animal is the pattern on its armour. Without getting too fussy and detailed I used a white crayon to make some marks that resemble the pattern and then watercolored over that. It sort of worked. It’s very hard to see the white crayon on the white paper.
I was looking for a piece of paper a couple of days ago and found this charcoal drawing tucked into the pad. It was done as an exercise, following the contest guidelines for a contest that I didn’t enter. It’s fairly large for this type of thing and would make a good double page spread. The idea was to illustrate a part of “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, that hadn’t been done before – in black and white. This is from a section of the book that talks about the boy, Jody, his father and dog watching twin bear cubs playing in the trees. I’m very familiar with these tall and skinny pine trees in Florida, so I thought I could capture the scene.
The Mokie Chronicles No. 18 – Discovery is in response to Susanna Leonard Hill’s 2nd annual pretty much world famous illustrators contest [Deadline Today!]:
http://susannahill.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-2nd-annual-pretty-much-world-famous.html
Of course, Mokie came to mind (when doesn’t she). 🙂
So, without further adieu, Here is Mokienaught!!!!
Is she chasing the rabbit on the moon? or maybe looking for Pluto?
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