IF Theme: "Patterns"

I started keeping a small sketchbook with me to work through color theory and ideas.   This was an exercise to use color and pattern to express the seasons.

Pretend/Rambunctious

Digital Painting with Corel Painter IX

I originally meant to post this on Illustration Friday under the "pretend" theme, but I didn't finish it in time. It's from my story "Pinky and the Blue Speckled Butterfly." It seems to work (more or less) for this Illustration Friday theme too.