Scarab

Graphite pencil, colored pencil and ink pen on acid free paper, 17.8 x 25.3 cm (7 x 10 in.)
© Joan Ann Lansberry, 2013

The Friday Illustration theme this week is "Wings". I thought maybe I'd do a new drawing for it. Then I realized I have the winged scarab I drew back in 2011:


Detail of Paankhenamun's Coffin

So I submitted that drawing to the theme. Meanwhile, I was still feeling inspired for a scarab. The winged scarab on a sarcophagus now at the Turin museum was calling to me. (Another Flicker photographer has a view of it more in context.)

So I used that scarab as the basis for the drawing, and improvised a little.

© Joan Ann Lansberry, January 2013