Inspiring 'The Girl who Sings to Snails'.
I'm working on a short story at the moment, the working title is 'The Girl who Sings to Snails'. As I've discussed before I write my stories a little differently, usually my stories are inspired by my illustrations, so I draw some of the illustrations before I write the story.
'The Girl who Sings to Snails' is inspired by two things, the first is a night of snail hunting. If you follow my blog you will have noticed that alongside my love for art I also have an interest in gardening, you may have even seen my post crypto garden or read my tips on growing your own crypto! I have lots of snails in my garden, but I don't use slug pellets (nasty things), no I use a Snail Transfer System. This involves going out at night with a torch and removing the snails from my veggies patch at the back of the house and taking them to my flower garden at the front of the house, where I have plants that the snails also love to eat but I don't mind if they do. This way no snail is harmed, just slightly disorientated.
So on to the second source of inspiration for my story 'The Girl who Sings to Snails'. I drew this quirky little illustration of some of my snail friends making there way to the last uneaten seedling in my veggie patch, I think they may be planning a little snail party.
All these snails seems to have an individual character to them, I don't know if I will use this illustration in the final piece or go for something with more realism, but for now it's sitting by the desk in the french gîte I am staying in providing plenty of inspiration for my writing. I may even have some more illustrations of my snail friends to share soon!
If you want something to read while you are waiting for 'The Girl who Sings to Snails' then you might enjoy my other stories The Rain Fairy and the Armies of Ants and The Star Thief.
Now I'd better get on, I have a story to write and I'm going at a snails pace!
So cute! I love you paintings~
Haha, snails :) Here is another one for you :)
Am I late to the party?
The party is always on, you are right on time!
nice art and good use of colors but those real snails are the real deal in this whole story... thanks for the share @opheliafu
That is super cool!
Awesome animals!!!
Okay, that's a first for me! Nice!
Ok, I now want to feed a snail lol!
Hahahaha
This guy is funny as, haha
Awesome! I have upvoted and cannot wait to read your story!
Thank you, I'm busy writing it :D
Hahahaha that is too awesome and kind of you. I bet they like the flowers even better even though they are disoriented. In your painting the blue one in the front looks startled like you may have caught him about to commit a crime of eating your last seedling.
Exactly, I wanted a look of surprise!
You Nailed it lol. But then again I am not surprised :D. (pun intended)
You snailed it lol
Aww love those little cuties wandering through the night
...towards my hostas
Wow that is a lot of Snails you had to transfer! A mass relocation event!
It's a regular event, I think they probably find their way back again.
Maybe that's there home and they wonder why you keep moving them :( All those yummy veggies- If i was your neighbour I might do the same hahah
This is so original. You're very creative. It's clever and cute. I'm sure some of us feel like we are going at a snail's pace at times.
Keep it up, your creativity I mean :)
I think maybe the snails have the right idea going at that pace, we go to quickly!
In love with your work, followed and upvoted!
Thank you!!! :D
My pleasure ^_^
Your drawings are super adorable! Following so I can keep up with their adventures! Here's two snails making love for some inspiration:
Lol- it's not going to be THAT kind of story- '50 shades of slime'
Oh my bad :-P they are quite a romantic bunch though, haha
My daughter would love this, she is indeed the girl who sings and loves snails!!
Awesome!!
Nice artwork of snails! Looking forward to the story!
Hopefully not too long to go, I reckon by next week I'll be finished.
That's quite a party!
I would have been nice if snails would look in real life so colorful :)
I've seen a few nice yellow ones.
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I'm down for a snail party! Where do I sign up?!
Snail night hunt with a torch))))
I like sky color and snail shells transition of colors!!!
And their facial expressions :D
I think they were a little shocked at being transferred, i have shown this on some of their faces!
Nice post, i love the paintings of the snails! :)
Thank you :D
Cool Pics ... :)
Like a slug in a spongebob movie @opheliafu :D
Haha, I'll have to check that out!
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Beautiful. Nice work.
You have some very interesting snails. I have a big garden and have had my share of slug damage but I've never seen one with a shell. In any event snails are the least of my problems. Beetles are much more of a problem right now.
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I really am passionate about your work lady @ opheliafu, I really like your creativity and the conjugations of the elements, beautiful story, thank you very much for sharing it.
Have a great weekend
Heartwarming! Thank you for this piece of pure art in multiple forms.
This is what I was looking at
Thank You for sharing
Beautiful photos
the story sounds perfect already .i just read 'The Rain Fairy and the Armies of Ants' lovely story , peace is the option. I choose to wait on 'The Girl who Sings to Snails' .
You really have good eyes for this kind of photo. Congrats!
Followed and upvoted
Amazing art. Love the story warms the ♡ :0) thx for sharing. Upvoted and resteemed
aww so stinkin cute!
Love it
awesome loved the progress shots, sweet idea
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Years ago, we had a lot of snails and slugs in my wife's flower garden. She dislikes slugs and bought death powder to sprinkle on them. I picked out all the snails I could find and took them to another, smaller garden with small plants, but no flowers. Two days later, all the snails were dead! I asked what happened to the snails, and Wife said, "Oh, I found a lot of them in the front garden and killed them while I was 'doing' the slugs." Communication failure on my part!
Interesting artwork. Looking forward to the story.
Great painting!
Nice painting!
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adorable! <3
I used to put several snails in a box and feed them,they are lovely.
I love it ! great work ! 😊
I like that you "relocate" the snails-- we do the same thing around here. It's strange... even though they are related, I find snails to be kind of "cute" while slugs are sort of gross. Not sure what that's about...
I like your illustrations with all the different colored snails... look forward to your story!
Like illustration, waiting for story...good work
can't say I'm a big fan of snails but these are so cute!
cuteeee
Nice..
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