This week's entry for Ben Towle's Animal Alphabet is a super-quickie, because it's my husband's birthday & we spent last night doing some advance celebrating. Interesting how many yellow-bellied whatsits are represented in nature's alphabet. I don't recall so many other belly-color names showing up. And I don't think there are any lily-livered skinks, &c., so it's not that they were all named by B Western characters. Which just reminded me of that lovely oath from Zorro, "meal mush & goat's milk!"
Enough tangents! And sorry, skink, for putting you through such contortions to simulate a "Y". You may stretch out now.
Ball-point, marker & white gouache on brown paper, with some Photoshop tweaking.
Oops, one more tangent: today is the day when my Curiotype alphabet finally overtakes Animal Alphabet (assuming I can get that one finished along with birthday doings). Feels a bit sad to have both of them drawing to a close...
4 comments:
Yes! There are a lot of yellow-bellied somethings out there! Nice work!
Aren't there plans for another "lap" through the alphabet using imaginary creatures? I know I'm hoping to do it.
Thanks Lupi! Your Yaffle is gloriously yellow-bellied in plumage, if not in name.
Isaac, somehow I missed that plan-- but I'd love to be in on it!
Oh goodness!!! I missed all of these beautiful paintings and illustrations!!! These are the more proper cousins of the alphaBeasts. I drew an abecedarian series before. I am inspired to do another one.
Happy Easter!!!
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