Illustration Friday – Fleeting

We got a fleeting glance at Spring the other day… ‘fleeting’ is the IF topic for this week. Please see my new Etsy store for print availability.

Breezy Friday

I’m sneaking in a couple of illos last minute for Illustration Friday’s ‘Breezy’ topic.

IF - Breezy

 

Illustration Friday - Breezy

IF – Celebrate with Retro Cake

This week’s Illustration Friday topic is Celebration so here’s a taste of Retro Strawberry Cake. True, it’s influenced by 60s cooking books and 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!

Illustration Friday – Resolve

‘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!

Illustration Friday – Clandestine

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.

Illustration Friday – Similar

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is ‘Similar‘.

Media: Watercolour on Schoellershammer no.4; digitally altered in Photoshop.

Model: Can Can Cat Blythe by Hasbro.

Illustration Friday – Balloon

‘Party Girl’ is my entry for this week’s Illustration Friday.
Theme: ‘Balloon’
Media: Watercolour on Daler Rowney HP watercolour paper.
Model: ‘Can Can Cat’ Blythe doll by Hasbro.

Illustration Friday – Pretend

Moruroa. PRETEND it’s not happening. 

This is one of my entries in this week’s in-house illo show at Camberwell, inspired by the original ‘Duck and Cover’ campaign. While there was little understanding about radiation poisoning or fallout in the late 1940s, (read more here) regular nuclear testing continued on Moruroa until 1996. This week’s Illustration Friday theme is ‘Pretend’. Moruroa. Pretend it never happened.

Illustration Friday – Wise Cookie

‘Wise Cookie’ is my entry for this week’s Illustration Friday theme: Wise
Media: Tea, dye, col. pencils, poster paint, graphite on postcard by Hahnemuhle

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