Ink drawing of a beautiful chestnut-haired fairy cop visiting a farm.

John R. Neill was the illustrator of the Oz books for decades. (Late in life, he even wrote a few of those books himself.) I decided to invoke his style in an ink drawing, although I'm not at all sure that this is what I actually received.

This creation is the latest in a series featuring a chestnut-haired female fairy cop. Her version of a police nightstick (or "baton") is a magic wand which can turn you into a frog if you are foolish enough to resist arrest. Some of the previous creations about this character -- although not this one, which is just set on a generic farm -- are explicitly set in the Land of Oz, with her patrolling such places as the Emerald City or the Yellow Brick Road. I presume she was born and raised in Oz. That was what made me decide to invoke John R. Neill's name, this time around.

P.S. You know, one of these days I really ought to come up with a better name for her than "the chestnut-haired female fairy cop."