A Girl and her Dragon decide it’s much more fun to read and look at old books than it is to fight about silly things.
This drawing was one of the 45 images in my MICA thesis (as seen below). Philosophically, I liked the idea of thwarting the medieval tale of a saint vs a dragon and making it into one where the two see eye to eye. Perhaps they begin to understand each other’s value and decide that aggression is not desireable but that knowledge and rational thought is the way to friendship and peace.
Yes, drawing and painting a giant pile of books is some serious fun and ever since, I’ve been looking for an excuse in an image to do it again. And creating dragons of any sort are a blast.
The title uses the old English term for dragon— Werm (or wyrm) to indicate that it’s a wingless, snakelike beast. It’s also a word that draws in those scammy people sniffing around for money, offering to fix my website and find all the typos. Fortunately for me, I like my antique spellings, old-fashioned phrases, and weird idioms, so I can tell the sniffers no thanks.
