Owl and daisy ink drawing
Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash
A black ink drawing of a cartoon owl with large round eyes and a scalloped, stippled body, holding a daisy-like flower in one side. The linework is fine and the shading is built from dense dots and short strokes, with no colour. The owl fills the centre of a plain white sketchbook page, with the spiral binding visible at the top.
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Nobody in Thornbury could say who had first put the owl on the gatepost at Hollins Farm, but she had kept it through three winters and two floods. Each night she counted the lambs in the top field. Each night she got four, and each night she was wrong, because the fifth was a sheep's shadow asleep under the hawthorn. She kept a daisy tucked against her side for reasons she never explained.
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The daisy came from the vicarage lawn on a Tuesday. Young Eli Marsh had come up the lane with a bin-bag kite that the wind had flung into the beeches, and he was crying about it. The owl fetched the kite by its string and dropped it at his feet. Eli offered a penny, then a toffee. She took the toffee and kept the flower.
After that the boy came every evening with questions. Why did owls turn their heads so far? Was the moon a lamp someone had forgotten to switch off? She answered mostly by hooting, and he filled in the rest himself, which suited them both.
In the end the daisy wilted, as daisies do. Eli found her in the morning with her head tucked under one wing and the stem still gripped in her talons. He did not take it back. He fetched a jam jar from the kitchen, filled it at the trough, and set it beside her on the post, where it stood through all the lambing, and nobody in Thornbury ever asked why.
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