Garden-Variety Dragon

This garden dragon, land variety, allowed me to paint her portrait! (I'll post later) This land species are like chameleons, they change their colors to suit their surroundings and their moods!  She's picky, like most of them.  I was pleasantly surprised when she asked about painting her portrait also!  This one's been roaming the land for centuries.  The older garden dragons will grow a single horn or antlers to add to their defenses.  Most garden-variety dragons are born with the ability to produce flames with laser-like precision, even under water.

 

A Water Dragon!

These dragons are generally sweet-natured. The underwater gardens they guard and dwell in are simply divine.  The flowers include some of the most bizarre blooms you  will ever set your eyes upon.  This particular Water Garden Dragon lives in the Chesapeake Bay.  And, in addition to protecting the beautiful blossoms in her garden, she fiercely guards the delectable blue crab eggs.  She ensures that their nests are undisturbed.  This is a special variety of the garden dragons, they have developed a  partnership with the female crabs to protect the babies. (more on these sweeties later) 

Dragon in Flight

This pretty in pink dragon insisted her portrait be depicted 'in flight'.  This makes sense because the gardens she protects are mysteriously shrouded in the skies, they are cloud gardens.  Few people ever get to spot one of these shrouded beauties or the gardens they defend, but if you do happen to see one, consider yourself blessed.  They are deviously clever and prefer to go unnoticed, I was lucky she let me sketch her.  I really have to get in this Sky Garden Dragon's good graces to actually paint her AND her gardens. (fingers crossed)

Here Be Dragons

I love to sketch dragons.  My dragons aren't exactly the fearsome kind, they are mostly the gentle garden-variety dragons.  They guard treasures, and they are mythical like their predecessors. The treasures they guard are the treasures and mystical gardens of the mind.  Dragons of the garden-variety are picky.  When I paint or draw one of the garden dragons I know, it better be just so....or it might just go up in flames...

The Marsh Dragon of the Chesapeake ( a color sketch)

This is one of my husband's favorites.  He 'claims' that if he weren't so afraid of needles, this dragon would grace his body in the form of a tattoo.  He thinks I'm kinda kooky, because everything I draw has a story, or rather, a scenario and this little guy is no different.  Scenario:  This is a marsh dragon, they are small, like a squirrel.  Their flames have a magical quality.  Where ever they blow their flames, a new plant begins to grow in its ashes.  This only happens in marshes, otherwise there would be the problem of uncontrollable wildfires.  Marshes surround the Chesapeake Bay area where we live, I could of sworn I saw one of these little marsh dragons, they are quick and elusive and their services help in keeping the Bay healthy and full of blue crabs, because they like to eat them too;)