Pattillo Reaches the Great Lichen Forest

This drawing is from Pattillo Armadillo and the Dream of Green and shows a scene near the end of the story. You see Pattillo mustering his energy for the final leg of his journey...short little legs and all.

You see, the Great Lichen Forest was an ancient growth and contained within the smaller Blue Tree Forest.

Click on above title to stop by my pages at Gather.com, why doncha? We'll schmooze. Click on My Articles and look for one about Pattillo's dummybook and its journey to New York City...and alas, back home again a mere month or so later...but with a comlimentary Editor's Letter in tow in honor of his valiant exertions.

At www.gather.com, tea or coffee are optional...or as Abraham Lincoln is said to have said so amusingly: if this is tea, bring me coffee. If this is coffee, bring me tea.

(c)2007 Unscene World by Jude Cowell

Blue Tree Forest

Here is one of several drawings done since 2003 of various views of Blue Tree Forest. Is the moon hiding?

Blue Tree Forest: a clearing

North's Carpet under Full Moon

Here's a new drawing for Secret Moon Art...can you tell how much I love moss?

(c)2007 Paths'n'Portals series

by Jude Cowell

hyper-flora

Here's an older, rather odd drawing for Secret Moon Art...what do you think?

The Eye on the Wall

...featuring a coffin excavated from Deir el Balah...Moshe Dayan had a paw in the retrieval and collectorship of 20 of them. This design is a semi-rendition of one of the more anthropoid of the lot--anthropoid because they have human facial features.

Deir el Balah is south of Gaza on the coastal plain. The sarcophagi date to the 14-13th centuries BC, a time when when Egypt's New Kingdom empire may have extended into southern Canaan.

The identity of the residents of these effigies could be anyone's guess but a few of the usual suspects range from military officials, Egyptian civil servants and engineers, and other dignitaries.

I can assure you that the 20 coffins make a solemn assemblage of the first water each with his expressive face in a different pose or style.

Last I heard (my info is from a Biblical Archaeology Review magazine from the July/August 1986 issue...a bit outdated yet valuable as a perspective which one may hear echoing from 1986. It's a fascinating magazine/hardcopy from the past, that's what it is.)

Moshe Dayan, amateur archaeologist and Israeli general, collected many more items than you might think he should have...perhaps you do, perhaps you don't.

But the point may always be made that if Dayan had not had the means and the willpower to do this collecting, the coffins might have been decimated by bulldozers or just never discovered in that sandy old cemetery...these relics are quite older than what most people have truck with in their daily grinds unless you hang with the museum herds which are liable to be grazing about.


Back Then

Dayan's widow was paid 1 million dollars for the Collection thus keeping it intact at the time but that was 20+ years ago, people! Someone get to Googling or ixquicking, ok?

Because I wonder if the Boys are still together? ;D

Her Yellow Dress v1

Welcome to Secret Moon Art where some drawings are posted before completion as you see here with Her Yellow Dress.

Will post the final version eventually...hope you'll return for a visit because I as yet have No Idea how this drawing should be finished.

UPDATE 5.14.07: completed Her Yelllow Dress and publ'd it May 14, 2007...see Archives List, if you please...


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SECRET MOON ART

Secret Moon Art goes LIVE at last!

This gallery will contain drawings of forests, flowers, fairies and stuff, and any other image I care to post for your consideration!

Note of Assurance: No Prismacolor Oil or Rexel Derwent Watercolour pencils were harmed in the drawing of these designs...other than sharpening, if you want to count that.

jude cowell (c)2006 7.14.06 6:30 pm edt