Terri Nelson

Inktober 17: from my collection of mugshots.  I don’t know what she was busted for but it looks like it was good.

Inktober 15: from my mugshot collection. Busted trying to buy beer on her birthday, poor girl.

Inktober 14: Chickens!

Inktober 13, from my collection of mugshots.  Wait.  No.  Just some pretty lady I doodled.

Inktober 12, from my collection of mugshots

Inktober 11, from my collection of mugshots

Inktober 8, from my collection of mugshots.

The Snowy Sheathbill, looking more noble than he deserves.  Inktober 7.

If you need any Snowy Sheathbill schwag, you can get it here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/terridrawsstuff/works/17134532-snowy-sheathbill

Yellowbilled Magpie: Inktober 6? I can’t remember the number anymore

Let The Right One In: Inktober 4  (the Swedish version. I never saw the remake)

Pieter from What We Do In The Shadows!  Inktober 3

Inktober 2: Brush-Tailed Possum skull

Inktober Sketch 1: Adelie Penguin

I love listening to Stuff You Missed In History Class podcasts, and recently they did one on Olive Oatman.  I felt like I had to draw her.

Here’s a link to the Stuff You Missed In History piece on her:

http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/olive-oatman/

Olive Oatman has the traditional Mohave tattooed chin that she had in real-life. I drew her wearing a traditional Mohave neckpiece, since the Mohaves were the ones who adopted her and treated her well (according to her first interviews upon her return to white civilization, before the media sensationalized her accounts). I included the coyote and the red-tailed hawk because those animals both figure in Mohave spirituality. I drew Topeka, the daughter of Espanesay, the Mohave man who adopted her, standing in back of her.  I could not find photos extant of Topeka so I based her on a portrait of a Mohave girl named Mosa, taken by Edward O. Wilson. 

Below is a portrait of a Mohave woman named Chacha wearing a beaded neckpiece, also taken by Edward O. Wilson.

Allen's Hummingbird