Necessity the bat emerges from the hand of her creator as the data stream. Pencil and ink on medium weight sketch paper. This is an illustration for my story "Necessity", submitted to the Anthrocon conbook which has the them of "Invention" this year. Artwork and character © Fran Wolfe-Johnson

Simtra Firefox(an arctic/red fox hybrid)and Sonata McGregor (a rainbow faerie Siamese)take wing as they dance. I drew the piece for Anthrocon 2001 conbook, which had the theme "Furs in Flight" and wrote a poem with the same title describing the artwork. Both were published in the conbook. Simtra © Stephen Johnson. Sonata and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

Kernunnos and Flidais celebrate the spiritual and physical commitment to one another. In the Wiccan religion, the Great Rite symbolizes the harmonic (and often orgasmic) union of the masculine and feminine god and goddess energies. I chose the stag with infinity in his eyes to represent the god and a gravid vixen to represent the mother aspect of the goddess. Kernunnos, Flidais, and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

A highlander lion is hanged in his cell for an act of supposed treason. The motivation for this piece has its roots in two separate but related historical incidents. In 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of James, came to ask the Jacobites for military aid to regain his throne. Charles and the Jacobites were defeated by the British Army at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Later that year an act banning highland dress, including the tartan, was put into affect. Suspected lawbreakers were required to take an oath stating they would die as cowards without Christian burial if they broke that law. In the same time period, the occasional accusation of witchcraft could still be heard. The motivation for both was often greed, as lands and property for both crimes were automatically forfeit. I chose this depiction as the antithesis of the "Burning Times" myth so popular with many neopagans. He is male, neither heretic nor witch, and he was hanged rather than burned. Character and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

TygerMoon Foxx basks in the firelight after summoning the fire element to her circle before ritual. This is a self portrait of sorts. I used my own body as a model and drew it with my FurryMUCK character Arrien's distinctive fur pattern. If I had an anthropomorphic form as TygerMoon Foxx, this is probably what it would look like. She has long hair, but it's bound in a braid that wouldn't have been visible in this view.

Rhiannon, Guardian of the Watchtower of the north, captures a ball of errant energy and makes ready to deflect it away from its intended target back to its creator. Rhiannon is a gargoyle of draconic stock and lives in my temple room.
Rhiannon and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

A brown bear shaman meditates beside a waterfall cascading into a caldera. The inspiration for this piece came from an actual waterfall meditation described in one of my books about paganism. Character and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

This is a reworked version of a pencil drawing of Sonata I created back in 1996. I wanted a classic pose and decided to pose her on a dressing couch beside the bedroom window of her ranch house in the mountains. You can almost see the night breezes ruffling her hair and moonlight dappling her creamy fur as soft strains of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" play somehere on a Victrola.
Sonata and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson.

D'art, a Florida panther, has a little fun as he leaves the shower. This is a reworked version of a pencil drawing I did in 1997, modeled off of a friend's photograph. The reworked concept resulted from speculations about what my husband would look like in a feline form and I used him as a live model when I sketched out the initial concept. D'artagnan and artwork © Fran Wolfe-Johnson

Art exchange for LiveJournal community Furartxchange2. Drafting pens on cardstock. I'm planning on coloring the image later, but this is a finished black and white version. Captain Faolin Rudah, a dire red wolf, hits the rum and howls her success after a hard day's pillaging. Faolin is the intellectual property of Ravynwolf. Art © Fran Wolfe-Johnson 2004