Every once in a while, I look through the collection of Children's books that I have inherited from my parents and grandparents, and remember again what gems some of them are. I looked today at my favorite fairy tale book from my childhood, and thought I'd share some of these amazing illustrations here, because they absolutely deserve the appreciation:
These illustrations are by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and I have always adored their work. The detail! The imagination! I could go on and on...
Been playing with watercolors lately. Here's a little sketch of Sabine for you all.
Had a kindergartener walk up to me today and ask me why I always wear the same thing. Now I’m going through my entire closet of “teacher clothes” in my head, trying to figure out if I somehow wore the same outfit this day last week by mistake.
It’s a different blue
Swaddled in airplane footprints
Stretched over the fields
It’s a different blue
Stars stacked like fifty bread brands
A choice I don’t need
It’s a different blue
But the same sky beneath the
Fabricated smiles
cowboy kanera auu
slowly working thru my kanera backlog,, i need to draw more of these designs i like em
Here's a second little watercolor sketch! I liked the Sabine one so much I decided to draw Satine too, and I think this one turned out even better!
[Pilate] said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.
- John 19:14-16, ESV
What fading flowers his road adorn;
the palms, how soon laid down!
No bloom or leaf but only thorn
the King of glory's crown.
The soldiers mock, the rabble cries,
the streets with tumult ring,
as Pilate to the mob replies,
“Behold, behold your King!”
- No Tramp of Soldier's Marching Feet, verse 3
(If you have not heard of this hymn, you should look up the lyrics. I love the poetry of it, and it's perfect for Holy Week.)
Okay, okay, maybe The Queen's Thief crew in a SW au? Your choice on who!
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE this was my sister's idea (ALSO I ALMOST FORGOT @aslansjedi has also written a super fun TQT in Star Wars au! Check it out here):
The Senate building was in an uproar. In times such as these, that wasn’t totally unprecedented. Usually it meant that Senator Organa or Senator Mothma had just delivered a speech that the more Empire loving representatives were losing their minds about.
This time, however, people were rioting over the results of the first vote on Sounis’s sovereignty. And also the second, which had occurred after the king, here to attend the vote, had had the doors barricaded. The second vote had gone in his favor—but the audacity of him commanding the Senate into voting his way wasn’t what was causing the chaos.
In the middle of all of this, Attolis Eugenides—husband of the queen of the planet Attolia, Queen’s Thief of Eddis (some said former. Others were far wiser), strolled through the halls of the Senate building. He was followed by a posse of flustered attendants, all of whom were trying to talk to him at once.
“Your Majesty—”
“I don’t think it’s wise—”
“Please, Your Majesty—”
The king ignored them all, as he often did. Looking decidedly regal in his embroidered and elegant garments, he stalked up to a door guarded by two stormtroopers. One of them stepped forward as if to stop him, but was skewered by a look that made him back down hastily.
The door hissed open, revealing a small sitting room. Far from the nicest in the Senate building, it was out of the way and held a tall man, sitting in a chair, having coffee. He looked up, and the look on his scarred face was startled, but pleased. Sitting at the same table was a woman with short hair and a smile a man would die to earn, but she was not the object of the king’s attention. The king of Sounis was.
Gen cocked an eyebrow at him as the door hissed shut behind him. “You shot the Emperor?”
“You gave me the gun,” Sophos protested.
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