Harriet & the Hair Fairy Illustrations

You may remember my post about the book covers I designed for my final university project, illustrating my decidedly odd story about Harriet, a little girl with no hair, and the Hair Fairy, who goes on a series of ill-fated adventures in order to clothe Harriet's head.

Well, here are some illustrations to go with the story; some character sketches, a concept for a scene and an oil painting!

The Night Mare, who donates some of her tail strands that keep growing and growing;

The Hair Fairy

Harriet with a knotted clump of fine golden hair

An oil painting! I'd been wanting to do one for ages, I prefer the original pencil sketch but I think that's just because I'm so out of practise with oils. I love 'em :D

Treasure!

I recently received a fairly unassuming brown jiffy envelope through my letter box. It had a little drawing of a lighthouse on the bottom corner and a hand-scribbled note saying:

'Sorry it took so long to get this to you - I was off on holiday collecting more of these!'

What was in the package? SEA GLASS! Yes, I am getting excited about fragments of glass that have spent the last couple of centuries getting smoothed and tumbled by surf. Most random eBay purchase of the century?? It might also be the prettiest!

So what am I going to do with all this glass, you may be wondering. The other bemused members of my household certainly did, quite vocally.
And I do have plans! They are secret might-fail-miserably plans so you'll have to watch this space to find out :P