Draw Something Oct. 26 - Wrap up

Dedicating a month to draw is really the only time I seem to really complete any artwork but I did finish more than usual. It's very time consuming finishing them. My process is draw on paper, scan the drawing in and digitally colored them. I've worked a routine but it's so hard to choose colors when face with so many choices. But I had fun making up traits and adding details and choosing names. I hope you like these cat witches. Maybe when I finish the others, I'll post them. Here's a last one I completed.

Name: River Zudora Summer Garcia
Age: 13
Loves: Tea, ghosts, all things Halloween especially the treats
Hates: Hate to hate, asparagus-flavor candies, maybe chores
Ability: Can see a ghost's true desire
Curious Tidbit: Born on Halloween, River, came into the world just when a bunch of ghosts was habituating her home and causing all kinds of chaos. Her birth heralded the arrivals of spirits from her bloodline who got rid of the pesty ghosts.

Do you like Halloween or do you prefer a more subdue holiday?

Fiction: The Perils of Kidnapping a Tired Witch

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are supplied by Sean Jeating and are hosted at River's blog here. This week's prompts are: death, forward, important, intend, left and/or pleasure, step, touch, things, understand. Another optional prompt is Charlotte's colour of the month - Smoky Rose. 
    The aim of Words for Wednesday is to use one or all of the prompts to write something - ie, a story, a poem, an essay or any forms of writing, fiction or nonfiction, basically write anything you want.

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Fiction: The Perils of Kidnapping a Tired Witch
Della was exhausted from lack of sleep and from all the work to keep her hotel from going kaput. If her stepmother, Hillary, her siblings, Jacky and Didi, didn't fall ill at the same time and then decided to take a month's vacation away and if their housekeeper, maid, cook's helper, assistant manager didn't quit, maybe Della wouldn't have minded it as much. At least their cook, Mrs. Tides, didn't quit but only because Della doubled her salary though she was a cousin of her stepmother's. 
    Even with ten guests, it was hectic. And winter season meant Della had to switch out all the beddings, get the heating working and other matters her siblings, stepmother and employees should have done. Thank goodness for her assistant, Mason. Della wouldn't have been able to getting everything done without him.
    After one exhausted evening, Della was bidding two guests farewell by the front entrance of her hotel, when a van halted. Two men came out, grabbed Della, shoved her into the back of the van and drove off. As she lay on the floor, she fell asleep but was wakened when the van screeched to a stop and she bumped against the wall. The doors clapped open, a fat hand grabbed her and pulled her out. It was nearly midnight, most of houses were dark and the sidewalks were empty. 

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 14 & 15 & 16

Name: Mistress Tulip aka Tullulan Hutch
Teaches: Magic Laws & Regulations
Loves: Order, black tea without sugar, purple hats
Hates: Rule breakers, lawyers, messy rooms
Ability: Make anyone speak the truth with a look or a touch
Curious Tidbit: As a youth, Tulip was a rule breaker until an incident where she and her best friend snuck into the school gym and turned loose the school mascot, a hog of giant proportion, loose and the animal trampled her friend and broke her legs and her parents sent her away and Tulip never saw her again.

Name: Madam Ma aka Melinda Ma 
Title: Vice Head Mistress
Teaches: Poisons & Cures
Loves: Reading, timely things, tea
Hates: Lateness, sloppiness, lazy people
Ability: Can cure or make any poison
Curious Tidbit: As a child, Ma was almost always sick so her parents abandoned her to be raised by a woman living in the countryside. The woman cured Ma and took her as an apprentice and taught her everything she knew.

Name: Mistress Nine aka Nikita Wallpapers
Teaches: Magic & Math Mythology
Loves: Numbers, organization, eyeglasses
Hates: Messes, being late, peanut butter sandwiches
Ability: Can read someone's fortune with what number they choose
Curious Tidbit: Nine had hated math as a youth until her mother taught her what math could do and since then she was a lover of math and numbers.

What subject did you love or nearly love when you were in school?