"Wee Sleeket" Original Illustration

Wee Sleeket

11"x14" Ink on Paper, 2022. 

Wee Sleeket features a concerned, yet empowered-looking woman with lustrous, wavy hair curling around her face. Her cheeks are kissed with stippled blush. Words are hidden within the details. Ink on paper. Contact me if you'd like to purchase this artwork without the frame. Wee Sleeket features an excerpt from a Robert Burns poem.

To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785
by Robert Burns

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, timorous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
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