Secret Moon Art

Here's an illustration of Bambo Tuck's 'ShroomHome #124 from my unpublished children's book Silvery Tree Path (circa 1996): As were many of my drawings during the late 1990s, this one is drawn on black paper and embossed with metallic pencil which you can probably tell from the silver raindrops (actually aluminum pencil) in this scan of an actual photograph!

'Shroomhome on Silvery Tree Path is actually not one of the original drawings from an early attempt at writing and illustrating a children's book, it's a more recent effort. No, I'm not certain at this point which of the story's characters lives here though perhaps it's the home of one of the Chimes Sisters who appear each Saturday evening at the Roasted Root Cafe, premiere gathering spot in the Great Lichen Forest!

A view of the 'Shroomhome of Merri Chimes , a drawing done quite some time ago for a children's dummybook which never escaped from my studio. (A 'dummybook' or 'book dummy' is a mock-up of your children's book effort with text and illustrations, if you have them.) Titled, Silvery Tree Path , the book concerns Roscoe Woodhouse and other characters who live in the Great Lichen Forest. Merri, one of the Chimes Sisters, lives along Silvery Tree Path as you see and is a songstress along with her sisters in the evenings at the Roasted Root Cafe. This image is from a photograph of the original rendering which is rather large - appr 20" x 24" - and this particular published version is actually from a scanned slide. So that is what gives it a yellowish tinge here...that and the fact that all Silvery Tree Path illustrations are embossed with silver (aluminum) pencil!

This is not a completed drawing, 'tis true. Yet 'ShroomHome on Silvery Tree Path is happy as a puppy with two tails to see you! When the drawing is done and published, you will be notified, if you like. 'ShroomHome on Silvery Tree Path , jude cowell Unscene World 2008+ ~:~ Prismacolor oil and Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils on Black...yes, Black...paper. 12.20.08 12:45 pm est