The Gnome Ride, an illustration

This week's illustration prompt was "Gnome". I stumbled upon the word from a daydream I had whilst my wife and I were walking our dog down a muddy path. Our dog became suddenly interested in a fallen down tree with some turkey tail mushrooms growing out of it. It looked like an obvious place for a woodland critter to call home, which would explain why my dog's interested was peaked. It also looked like a place a mythical creature might call home as well. My day dream took me to a scenario in which our dog sniffing out Gnome in it's place of dwelling and grabbing hold of a Gnome with her teeth. The gnome in an act of self preservation would do what any magical being would do: transform our dog into a defensless mushroom. I then imagined the fruitless search we'd have in the days that followed calling and calling for our dog and searching in vain for our her, never thinking that she was now a fungi residing on the property of a magical red capped creature.
So that's where the idea for the word came from this week, but I had a hard time depicting that scenario in an illustration so I decided to show a Gnome riding a bicycle down a hill, because well, I love riding bicycles down hills and I imagine a Gnome, being a creature of the earth, might enjoy this activity as well. The scenery was inspired by a ride I made last week through Angus. The Oil Seed Rape fields (from where Canola Oil comes from) is starting to pop it's electic yellow in the fields, and the grey browns are starting to turn green; a sign that the Gnomes are hard at work again for another spring.