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The BeeBottom Fairy

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September 12, 2017 A successful Kerrytown BookFest. Beautiful weather. You're sad if you missed it. The Festival folk asked me to do an illustration demonstration.
For the illustration demo I brought tons of material. I had decided to do a bee inspired fairy — a "Yellow Jacket Fairy"...
my iniitial sketch is on the left & started watercolor on the right.
When walking the doggrel one morning I found this lovely (and unfortunate) Carpenter Bee on the curb.
Here's the Carpenter Bee from my collection of found insects.

Take a look at his furry jacket (and butt)!

A bit further, blocking in colors of the Yellow Jacket fairy (modeled more on a Bumble BEE & Carpenter BEE rather than a wasp), but she DOES have a yellow "jacket"..kind of a "shrug" :)

(at a future date, I'd like to do an illustration where she is actually up to something...)

Of course I was reminded of the
Bee-Bottom Fairy from my book,
"Who's Behind the Fairy Doors?". Pages 14 & 15
working on her goggles.
here is a scan of what I got done, between chattering etc..
Thinking I might be done...
... realizing my oversight, when looking at my reference.
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This is where it (fairy doors) all began — the concept, the phenomenon. This site is all about the Fairy Doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan (the original fairy doors) and what illustrator, Jonathan b. Wright , certified fairyologist, discovers about them. It includes photographs of the Fairy Doors, comments in the Fairy Journals, Observations and speculations about the Fairies. Tiny Doors, Urban Fairies®, Faery, Faeries, Fairy, Fairies, miniature doors, tiny doors, little doors, tiny fairy doors, little fairy doors, little faery doors, tiny faery doors, weensy doors, Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, Peaceable Kingdom, Jefferson Market, The Ark, The Ann Arbor Framing Company, Selo Shevel Gallery, Lakewood Elementary Kindergarten, Fairy ticket window, Found Gallery, Mott Children's Hospital, The Michigan Theater, Google Offices, Nicola's Books, Found Gallery, Flying Pumpkin Cottage, fairy entrances, fairy windows, fairy spaces, fairy store, fairy shop, Flat Fairies, Clarence the Bridge Troll, fairy droppings. The site will be updated frequently with new excerpts from the Fairy Journals, New fairy sightings, Specifics about each location a fairy map. Any new knowledge of the fairy activity will be passed along by Jonathan. Also on this site are some hidden fairy surprises and a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Fairies. There is a brief history of how Jonathan became involved with the Urban Fairies®. There are links to local publications about the Urban Fairy® phenomenon. Jonathan is currently writing several books on the fairies in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen, who coincidentally has found a fairy door in her kindergarten classroom. Hopefully it will be fun and informative to come back and see what's new with the Urban Fairies of Ann Arbor.

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