Cookie the Calf Children's Book in Progress

 I'm working on a children's book.

I have the written "script" or "lyrics" completed.

The paintings are a work in progress.

Right now I have sixty paintings. Ten are completed

Here I'm posting ones that are not finished.

Please provide input and advise what you think.

The book is about a calf who saves the prairie.

His name is Cookie. He's a Charolais baby calf.

blossoms- unfinished not happy with color - too much lavender in the flowers need it to dry to rework and add foreground figure

cow bird - left side too painterly drippy maybe for children ?

calf and monarch friend pretty  happy with this one but the calf is skinny

Sacred datura- a poisonous plant the butterfly needs definition and maybe one more large flower.

Datura is poisonous as are many noxious weeds

snow landscape day one just laying down the composition

Another landscape with fire might not add a calf to this one

this one's a hot mess

lol letting it dry to fix it

calf figure not completed  and the fireflies need clarification

maybe to scary - the ghost cow over the moon

happy with the wild color - his face needs completion

milking I think this breezy sketch is done

the monarch friends - those in the background need definition

not happy with the blue sky and his body, almost there

I started this painting a year ago and still haven't completed it the trees are crazy

my song to Albert  

sketch of the weeds I like this simple one

https://youtu.be/rHbt2Sg7ogI

I'm looking for input and guidance please

Christmas Snippets

 

Grateful For a Quiet Christmas With Family

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Happy Thanksgiving

 

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes

  And roofs of villages, on woodland crests

  And their aerial neighborhoods of nests

  Deserted, on the curtained window-panes

Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes

  And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!

  Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,

  With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!

All things are symbols: the external shows

  Of Nature have their image in the mind,

  As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;

The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,

  Only the empty nests are left behind,

  And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do More Of What Makes You Happy