Zentangled Animals

I have been way too quiet these past few days, sorry about that, sometimes life just keeps us busy. So today I thought I might post several Artist Trading Cards I made in the past few days for swaps. This series is for zentangled animals, and if you have been following my post a bit you know I have been doing just that already. I really like doing the "finery" butterflies...

Gemini Constellation Shroom

Today is Shroom posting day and since I happen to be a Gemini starsign and we are currently within Gemini "time", I am posting the Gemini Costellation Shroom. As the name suggests it has intricate patterns on its hat, with differently coloured spots marking the astrological sign of Gemini. You might need to look up the constellation in a starchart or, if you don't have any of those, on Google images to locate it on the Shrooms hat...

Koi Fish

I did a personal trade recently and my trading partner requested Koi fish. I had to look around on the internet how to draw proper Koi, and there is no shame in that, other people look at drawing books in the local library. I think they turned out ok and I used them on the Koi Shroom as well.

I admit that I am posting an older card today because tomorrow is Shroom posting day and I did not want to split up a series of 4 swap cards. 

Swan IV

Ok, we gave them a day privacy, so let's check what is happening with our poor sad swan.

He was hungry after all...

Swan III

Well, he might be lonely after all. So I thought to myself: let's give him a mate, it might cheer him up a little bit. Also a nice romantic full moon (with a tiny spider on top) should really help things along...

But the moon seems a bit freaked out by the little spider.

Swan II

And then I thought, maybe the swan is not lonely, but hungry. I can feel pretty sad when I am hungry. So I sent him on the search for some food...

Swan I

I am currently taking part in a spirit animal swap. I will not divulge here what my spirit animal really is, but with the invitation for the swap came a link to a "test" we participants could undergo to find out what animal we were. This was a multiple choice test, the kind we all know from our teenage years, and it was fun to take - in a way. The result for me was swan and so I made a couple of Swan cards, showing swans in all kinds of daily situations. This one turned out a sad big fella, maybe he is lonely?