complex puzzle

watercolor

“A woman's heart is such a complex problem - 

the owner thereof is often 

most incompetent 

to find the solution to this puzzle.” 

― Emmuska Orczy

For Illustration Friday

Prompt: puzzle.

Mrs. G.

watercolor

Mrs. G. Camelo-Pardalis
has been biting her tongue for a long time,
ruminating rather irritably over the chit-chat 
rustling through the jungle.
(Entering into such yakking is far beneath her, of course.)

But the breeze has been shooting concerning rumors...
and Mrs. G is about to become very vocal!


For Illustration Friday
Topic: Vocal

return

watercolor

every turn 

a calculated re-turn 

fibonacci

"I sit beside the fire and think 

Of all that I have seen 

Of meadow flowers and butterflies 

In summers that have been 

Of yellow leaves and gossamer 

In autumns that there were 

With morning mist and silver sun 

And wind upon my hair 

I sit beside the fire and think 

Of how the world will be 

When winter comes without a spring 

That I shall ever see 

For still there are so many things 

That I have never seen 

In every wood in every spring 

There is a different green 

I sit beside the fire and think 

Of people long ago 

And people that will see a world 

That I shall never know 

But all the while I sit and think 

Of times there were before 

I listen for returning feet 

And voices at the door" 

— J.R.R. Tolkien

For Illustration Friday

Topic: Return

shades of emotion

watercolor

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;

Behind the clouds the sun is shining;

Thy fate is the common fate of all,

Into each life some rain must fall,

Some days must be dark and dreary."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Illustration Friday

Topic: Shades

growing

watercolor

“The world is indeed full of peril, 

and in it there are many dark places; 

but still there is much that is fair, 

and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief,

 it grows perhaps the greater.”
-Haldir

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings