A 1.5x2 inch marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a rectangular decorative bottle label with an orange spadefoot toad facing 3/4 right, gold eyes wide open, on a graduated blue background, with a label underneath with the text “TOADAL SURPRISE!” in gold on a royal blue background edged with gold. The border is royal blue edged with gold on the outside. (Spadefoot toads are not orange; they’re dark brown-green, with lighter yellow-green limbs, and a pinkish grey underside. Their back feet have webbed toes designed for digging into sand or loose soil. They are adorable.) Photo reference for frog: Jeff Hall, from “A Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Virginia” Special Publication #3 by the Va Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries (date unknown, about 2010).

A photo of my sketchbook, open to the 1.5x2 inch marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a rectangular decorative bottle label with an orange spadefoot toad facing 3/4 right, gold eyes wide open, on a graduated blue background, with a label underneath with the text “TOADAL SURPRISE!” in gold on a royal blue background edged with gold. The border is royal blue edged with gold on the outside. Lower right is a quarter next to the drawing for visual size reference. (A US quarter (25 cents) is 15/16ths of an inch wide.) Photo reference for frog: Jeff Hall, from “A Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Virginia” Special Publication #3 by the Va Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries (date unknown, about 2010). (Spadefoot toads are not orange; they’re dark brown-green, with lighter yellow-green limbs, and a pinkish grey underside. Their back feet have webbed toes designed for digging into sand or loose soil. They are adorable.)

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Argh, deleted post b/c forgot watermarks! 😬 Anyway, tiny drawing! Love tiny drawing! Second pic has US quarter for size ref. 🫠💜💜💜