Page 42 Flats: Buddy Delivers Sad News to His Friends

Parting ways

As I was going through my book’s pages, I happened to cast my eye on the Hiroshige print that lives above my monitor and saw a beautiful view of Mt. Fuji. There’s a white cat sitting in the window enjoying the view. I was inspired to have Momma Jay looking out her own window, not towards Mt. Fuji, but toward the sky filled with Canadian Geese migrating back to their summer home in the North. I’m still working on the picture and will post it the coming Monday.

Page 42, the flats of which are shown above, shows Buddy telling his friends that it’s time to part ways. He’s going his way without them. His friends are feeling sad and left behind.

Check out the tree stump thighs on Buddy Butterfly

Here’s that picture I was working on yesterday, the picture where I learned how to draw bicycle spokes. Ironically, I used to build my own road racing bicycles, which involves building bicycle wheels from scratch and putting spokes into all the right spots.

Buddy looks like he spends a lot of time on his bike.