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Tag: nature

  • Welcome little one That’s it, now push harder!Do not worry, I’m hereHi! I am your motherWelcome to this world, dear. *** C’est bon, oui ! Pousse plus fort!Ne t’inquiete, je suis làTa maman veille sur toiBienvenue, mon trésor. Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook / Porte-mine sur carnet A6

  • My little place It’s my little place. It’s not much, a simple hole under the banks.I’t damp, it’s dark, it’s small. But it’s mine. *** C’est mon petit coin. C’est pas beaucoup, juste un trou dans les berges de la rivière.C’est humide. C’est sombre. C’est petit.Mais c’est à moi. Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook /…

  • Physalia physalis Struggling to invent a new exotic and strange creatures beyond this world?No need to search very far, the weirdest ones are right under our noses. And it can be scary. PS: I can’t believe how many vernacular designations they are for this… thing. Ink brush doodle on A6 sketchbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war *** Pourquoi se…

  • Metamorphosis My feet are firmly planted on the groud underMy hands are both raised high in the sky overTelluric currents running through me, changing meI am becoming one with the world now you see *** Mes pieds fermement plantés dans le sol dessousMes bras fièrement levés vers les cieux, s’agitentLes courants telluriques me traversent, c’est…

  • Just a Maid -33- Help me – I think your new friend has a problem Mr Crow. Poor fellow, how comes you can’t even walk of fly?– CAW! CAW! CAW! (Help me! I’m a man, not a corvidae!)– Oh my, I can’t understand you. Mr Crow, do you think you can… Hey, where’re you going?…

  • Tears of sap – What’s this?– Looks like sap. Tree’s blood.– No, I didn’t cut there, I think it’s…– Its’s what?– …tears. *** – C’est quoi ça ?– On dirait de la sève, le sang des arbres.– Non, j’ai pas frappé là. Ca ressemble plutôt à… – A quoi ?– …à des larmes Pencil doodle…

  • Inktober 2019 – 26 – Dark Comfortably sitting, reading this in your chair, You think Nature is a faraway, fragile child,Wilderness is nearer than you think, just right thereDark and scary things are still lurking, in the wild *** Bien assis dans votre doux fauteuil, confortable,Vous pensez la nature comme lointaine, chose fragile,Elle est bien…

  • The Holing Tree

    The Holing Tree – Sir! Behold what you’ve tasked us to find: The Holing Tree! – Sigh… I said: HOLY tree, not HOLING. You morons! – Oh… Deeply sorry sir. Er… Can’t we use it anyway? We searched long and hard and it looks nice. – It will have to do. *** – Chef! Contemplez…

  • Shard Flowers

    Shard Flowers When the succession war broke, Bredwin the Glassmaker had to move from the Plains of Conflant to the west coast. Displacing an entire glass-making workshop is quite the hassle, and he drop many items along the way, tools, shards of enchanted glass, arcane sand… With time, some of the magical shard of glass…

  • Branches

    Branches Choices, bifurcations, routes.The endless divisions of life are branches of a tree. Tiny or big, strong or fragiles. Sometimes rough, sometimes covered in moss. Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook *** Choix, bifurcations et chemins… Les infinies divisions de la vie sont les branches d’un arbre. Petites ou large, solides ou fragiles, parfois rugueuses, parfois…