08 January 2007

Near the Bee Hive

The original 18th century buzz monitor with a prototype "Blogge Engine". Click pic to enlarge.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 25cm x 17cm.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great illustrations, your pen and ink work is fabulous.

Michael R Fudge Jr said...

very nice, there is a lot going on here. Nice use of pen and ink. Great job!

neilornstein said...

your imagination is boundless. Greatstuff,

Brine Blank said...

Yet another favorite...the lesser furry spotted whatsit is really nice. How do you lay down your colored ink...or is this water color...and do you do the black ink before or after you lay in the color?

Bill Z said...

this is really cool

Mattias Adolfsson said...

Nice woodcut feel to it

Michelle said...

This is the other Michelle, very nice work and great original idea.

Anonymous said...

This looks like a four eyed robo-pet! ;)

Michelle Lana said...

your works are awesome!

Amy Zaleski said...

Brilliant, Ellis! And you really captured the look of those old technical illustrations here. Great image.

Jeannetto said...

very nice. i like the beehive. and i think i want to look into creating some historical looking illustrations. everyone is doing it. today is so yesterday.

Geninne said...

Fabulous illo! Great, great, great!

Jade said...

This one is brilliant Ellis!

sadie pink said...

Great illo. I LOVE your pen & ink magic!