The Red Shoes

Ink & Watercolour. It's inspired by the movie, which was inspired by the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Highwayman

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes - One of my favourite poems since elementary school (and also of Loreena McKennitt songs.) Ink and watercolour.

"He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(Oh, sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the West."

Wolf Moon

Ink and watercolor

The Five Sisters of York

Ink drawing colored digitally

Based on a short story by Charles Dickens, in Nicholas Nickleby.

Snowflake Waltz

Ink drawing colored digitally

Inspired by Tchaikovsky's Snowflake Waltz from The Nutcracker

Emily of New Moon

Ink drawing colored digitally

Based on one of my favourite literary characters by Lucy Maude Montgomery.

The Lady of the Lake

Ink drawing, colored digitally

With head upraised, and look intent,
And eye and ear attentive bent
And locks flung back, and lips apart
like a monument of Grecian art.
In listening mood, she seemed to stand
The guardian Naiad of the strand.

And ne'er did a Grecian trace,
A Nymph, A Naiad or a grace,
of finer form, or lovlier face!

~Sir Walter Scott