Asleep - Illustration Friday

Asleep - It doesn't look like much is going on, but inside your head the wheels are spinning, the fires are burning, and sometimes it's a big old mess! And that's what I love about it.

Safari - Illustration Friday

The theme for this week's Illustration Friday is 'safari'. I decided to look up the word safari and found out it comes from the swahili word meaning 'long journey'. I found this intriguing and imagined an image of someone walking along a lonely highway.

A 1970's Work in Progress....

Somewhere along the drive to work one day, I switched to the 60's and 70's radio station and began rocking out to Sweet City Woman by the Stampeders (a Canadian band btw!) Completely inspired, I imagined a cool, calm and collected 1970's woman relaxing in her sweet pad. So here we have her; a little faded and ripped over time but still super cool. I'll post when she's done!

The Beginning...

For my next Illustration Friday piece, the theme being 'beginner' made me think of the robins building a nest in our cedar bush. What better way to represent a beginning than with a nest of eggs?

Illustration Friday!

This is my first illustration for Illustration Friday!(http://www.illustrationfriday.com/) The theme is 'lesson' which got me thinking about this recent illustration based on my time in art school.

I often have dreams about being back at school and having a major project due. Being that it's a dream, the project is generally something very unusual for me like a huge conceptual painting or a strange clay sculpture of a city.

This illustration started out as an entry in my art journal using pen and acrylic paint. I then digitally added a scan of my pencil drawing of a girl's face and played around with the colours and textures. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, I like that you can see the text but it's obscured enough that you have to delve in to actually read it. Let me know what you think!