Jessica the Grass Fairy

Jessica the Grass Fairy

Grass Fairies are among the smallest of Fairies.  They love to sun themselves on a mushroom or toadstool during the summer.  Unlike mortals, toadstools are not dangerous for Fairies to eat.  You may also notice that this Grass Fairy, like all Grass Fairies, is quite slender.  The Grass Fairies tend to have wings that mimic butterfly wings.  The swallowtail butterfly type of wings are very common among the Grass Fairies.  

Grass Fairies do have tasks to perform.  They are pollinators of flowers, such as flowers found up in mountain meadows or flowers found on the prarie.  There are very few sightings of Grass Fairies because they use a disguise charm to make us mortals see butterflies.  If you saw Jessica here you would think that you were looking at a Swallowtail Butterfly.   

NOTE:  This drawing is a departure from my usual method of drawing with fine point pen . . . or drawing with pencil and then inking it over with a fine point pen.  This drawing is only done in pencil, but I did make copies of it several times and overdrew on the copy ink lines.  

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Scroll down to the bottom of the list for new drawings.  Below are 2 photos of some different kinds of Swallowtail butterflies.  Except for the Wikipedia one, I took these photos.

Swallowtail Butterfly from Wikipedia

The wings in the Grass Fairy are somewhat based on this species. 

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly from the Black Hills of South Dakota

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA