Well, they’re actually acrylic, but once I’ve started a pointless post-titling convention, I’m loathe to abandon it.

Caitlin is now talking in complete sentences, and I’m only up to the letter P! You can click on these for much bigger versions.

Olivia came out rather nicely. Nancy Drew looks just like how I remember her from the cover of The Hidden Staircase, but (a) Caitlin, like the rest of the world, is unlikely to share my nostalgia for 1970s-era Nancy Drew reissues, and (b) why does she look so much like Cheryl Hines from Curb Your Enthusiasm? Peter Rabbit looks fine, but I’m starting to think I should have used some kind of sepia-toned wash rather than permanent-marker for the ink line. It doesn’t quite capture the gentle quality of the Beatrix Potter originals.

Madeline is the real problem. I thought it would be an easy one: an iconic image, loosely drawn. But then I tried looking at the actual books. Ludwig Bemelmans never drew Madeline the same way twice, and in the color illustrations, there’s far more emphasis on the Parisian backgrounds in his lush watercolors. (ObTrivia: Bemelmans is buried at Arlington!) This illustration is the spitting image of the book Madeline saying “pooh-pooh” to the tiger in the zoo…but it still doesn’t really capture her somehow. So I added the Eiffel Tower at the last minute. Meh.

Two-thirds of the way done (since XYZ are a single illustration)!

Your moment of Wordplay Wednesday. There’s a ten-letter word that can be used as an adjective. It’s often used to describe something that can make a boom. It anagrams neatly into a different ten-letter word that can also be used as an adjective, to describe something that can make a different kind of boom. What are the words?

(Edited to add: answers and kibitzing over on the message boards.)