IF: flying

This is a submission for Illustration Friday's topic "flying". I did it with watercolors which is not my usual medium therefore it was really challenging. This was my second try and I'm still not satisfied with it. :(  I tend to overwork watercolors and of course that kills the nice transparent affect. Anyway, it was a good practice and I really needed that. When it was finished my 9 year old daughter came up with a very cute story for my illustration:

Once upon a time... on a warm fall day, a little boy gathered up tons of maple leaves. The little boy always thought about how it felt to fly. The leaves were so cozy that he fall asleep in the pile of leaves. When he woke up he noticed that he was a tiny leaf! Then all of a sudden a big wind blew him away and he was happily laughing that he could fly like the wind. The End.