Thursday 3 January 2019

One Sketch 284) The Secret Life of Butterflies Zine


The Secret Life of Butterflies
Each is a MASTER of disguise
each is a Ninja Glider
and loves to drink rough CIDER
They love to go to Discos
and fly to San Francisco
They knock on People's doors
- and when they sleep, they SNORES!

Basically, if you fold a piece of paper into 8, and cut it in the right place, you get a wee booklet of 8 pages which we can call a zine - from magazine, I'm guessing. I didn't come up with the idea. The nonsense rhyme on it, and the pictures, now, they're mine. I've loved butterflies since my youngest children were very little - about 20 years now - and so this was what occurred to me. The butterfly in the pages is based on the Peacock (Inachis Io) which is my favourite species.

Catching Up . . .

Been a while, hasn't it?  Don't worry, I haven't given up sketching. No, I just haven't got round to posting anything. Now, ...