Wyvera argus

The "peacock mimic" is a wyvern, or two-legged winged dragon, indigenous to India and neighbouring areas. Though its wings are tiny, this animal can fly, due to the production of lighter-than-air gases (where other genuses of dragons produce flammable gases).

(This is the "clean" version of an image that will have text and tea-staining added for use in a book of dragons, available in late 2013 or early 2014).

Pen and ink with watercolour on watercolour paper. 2013.