Poetry in lines and colors

One must be careful in wearing wigs, especially green ones. It may happen that some yellow bird decides to build its nest right on the top of it and surprises you just when you are going out to your favorite party! Doesn't the plant look surprised as well?

Little Dan is very very fond of meat! When his parents, coming back from a long journey in South Africa, took home a precious species of Drosera he   immediately thought of putting it in jail. He let Bun the bird happily fly away to his former land (Japan) and closed the hungry plant in the brand new cage. But as Charles Darwin said, "The sundew is a wonderful plant, or rather a most sagacious animal..." So sagacious as to grow a thin leaf that could pass through the cage and reach Dan's dish. This is why now poor Dan to enjoy his favorite meat is compelled to have lunch at a restaurant every day.

Just a quick sketch for this week Illustration Friday challenge while I'm trying to gather the ideas for my next book project, the illustrations for a children's story written by Nicholas Goh. It is unlikely you will be able to grow such rainbow of colors in your own garden, but maybe you could easily manage to get a blue elephant to water your plants. Sketching is often a matter of thought association: the perplexed cactuses brought to my mind the book "the secret life of plants" a weird research by Peter Tompkin and Christopher Bird, edited in 1973, which introduced the intriguing idea of plants having their own emotional life as well as their own form of communication.