Illustration Friday: BEARD

Illustration Friday Weekly Topic: BEARD
Ink on paper drawing, scanned and manipulated in photoshop to add the burlap background. 

Wycinanki- Polish birthday card

June 17th marked my grandmother's 98 birthday. She is fiesty, artistic, beautiful, opionated, elegant and able to entertain herself in 5 square feet of space for an entire day by artistically rearranging that which surrounds her. This polish cut paper or wycinanki is for her. I remember making these as a little girl with her, birds and flowers mostly.

Illustration Friday: SUMMER

Illustration Friday topic Summer. So many possibilities for this topic, I might play around with some additional illustrations, but I could not resist a pair of hypnotizing vintage bathing suits. Love stripes and polkadots, and I have a bit of a thing for orange and blue too:)

This is a ink and prisma color drawing with a bit of photoshop manipulation/digital collage. 

small creatures

playing around with gel pen on black paper

IF: Contraption

This past weekend I worked with my son rigging our own contraption, a greywater system from our washing machine to plants in our back yard. Although that might have made a wonderful illustration, the snaking pvc pipe, I opted for this still water related contraption of my imagination.

I call it "The flying, paddling, water suckerupper, squirterouter rain maker"
Here it is in two versions original drawing and digital manipulation.

Illustration Friday Topic: Retro

Illustration Friday: Retro

Love this topic, and although I have an abundance of illustrations that wold fit this topic I was excited to jump in on a new one. The tough part was deciding what I wanted to draw. It finally came down to a classic Lincoln my dad always wanted and these gorgeous cameras. I am quite certain my grandfather had these among his collection of 100's of cameras.




The illustration is traditional, in pen, prisma color, and colored pencil. manipulated in photoshop.

Illustration Friday: Voyage

The waves of flipping pages sent him on an amazing voyage.

If:Vanity

Illustration Friday: Vanity.

This Vanity still sits in the house my family built together in Minnesota. I remember putting rollers in my hair in front of it, spilling nail polish on its surface, filling the drawers, banging my knees as I grew and tried to sit at it. It was never surrounded by wallpaper like this, but I like to imagine it as such.

ink and conte on paper with digital collage.

IF: Natural

It's only "natural" for this Polish girl to feel a bit nostalgic for the beautiful "Pisanki" or polish Easter eggs. I have never made them the traditional way, we opted for crayons instead of beeswax growing up.  But I find drawing them equally satisfying. Here are two of my favorites. 

Illustration Friday: Sizzle

It has been a while since my last post, had a show open two weeks ago (more info on that on my other blog), I was excited to get back to these IF drawings, but didn't expect this one from today to become the topic.

I spent a few hours sitting in my backyard today drawing. This was the view from my vantage point, and although the sun was warm here in southern California. The wind was brisk and the shade structure I was under cooled the light in this drawing. So I lit the torch, it sizzled to life and seemed to be the only spot with color other than the gorgeous sky.



This is predominantly an ink on white paper drawing , until I got anxious to finish as my son was ready to head inside... so I finished with conte.