My first post for 2010 is my last Illustration Friday of 2009 and the theme is Pioneer. I need sleep - it's 5am, cold and snowing a little, (clearly not much of a pioneer spirit going on here!) so these are just a few Pioneer houses from my sketchbook, made yesterday. Mixed media. Happy New Year everyone!
Update: I've put a bunch of these up on flickr - here's a collage of all 26 sketches and you'll find closeups in the set. Thanks for looking.
I'm sneaking in a couple of illos last minute for Illustration Friday's 'Breezy' topic.
This week's Illustration Friday topic is Celebration so here's a taste of Retro Strawberry Cake. True, it's a little on the gaudy side... it could definitely do with some photoshop magic, (maybe a moire pattern?) as it's currently in all my usual media - pencil, coloured pencil, watercolours, inks and gouache, but heck, it's past midnight here and nearly the end of this week's challenge... enough already!
'Tiny Teddy set about mastering the first five steps of ballet with great resolve'. Resolve is the first Illustration Friday theme for 2009. Tiny Teddy is available on Zazzle merchandise, (UK users click here). Happy New Year everyone!
Had to get one last Illustration Friday in for 2008.... a mixed media drawing from a wrinkled sketchbook page scanned in sepia-tone. This week's theme is CLANDESTINE.
This week's Illustration Friday
Media: Watercolour on Schoellershammer no.4; digitally altered in Photoshop.
Model: Can Can Cat Blythe by Hasbro.
'Wise Cookie' is my entry for this week's Illustration Friday theme: Wise 'Wise 'Owl' was the first image to pop into my head, but I went with Fortune Cookie wisdom as I'd already picked some up at Chinatown for another project. I wanted to be sure I was buying authentic cookies and not a 'made in UK' version which come with English/German fortunes.... The storekeeper confirmed I was on the right track with excited cries of 'Lucky number! Lucky number!' So, besides providing potentially lucky Lotto numbers, do these cookies contain wisdom? Not according to the Chinese migrants in The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, who conclude the cookies contain not wisdom, but 'bad instruction'. Read more about Fortune Cookies on Wikipedia
Media: Tea, dye, col. pencils, poster paint, graphite on postcard by Hahnemuhle
