The Tiger Fairy

We're starting to look at art for Baum's "Animal Fairy Tales."  You ever read these?  If you haven't, hold off.  Wait'll you see what Z is doing with them.

Who knew there was a Tiger Fairy, and a Porcupine Fairy...and a Gopher Fairy.  Not every story has a fairy in it, but some do, and we're trying to figure out what the heck they look like.

I told Z I thought they should all be like made of light.  Like an aura around each animal, or maybe an aura over a meadow which a whole herd shares.

Z said he had other ideas.  So I said show 'em to me.

He's pretty secretive (like, how do you pronounce his first name Zhestok?  I'm saying Jest-awk, and he's not correcting me.  But it's probably more like zhhh-est-aucktch or something), so I had to pry some preliminary sketches from him.  He says he doesn't do preliminary.  Doesn't work with a pencil, I guess.  Anyhoo, here's what he eventually sent, after endless poking:

I'm loving all these.  But I hope he goes with the last one.  It is to drool.