IF: Vocal

This is my submission to Illustration Friday’s weekly word challenge.

I was playing in my sketchbook doodling away when this scruffy little dog popped onto the paper & I thought how cute it would be if he was just looking off into the sky & the moon was crooning to him.

Sketchbook Project 2012

In January I completed my submission for the Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour (http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject2012/features)

I had the capability to choose my own theme from a list of 20 opportunities. To my surprise I was able to pick one of my favorite words HOPE. I spent a lot of time researching quotes and playing w/sketch ideas. Finally I bunkered down & came up w/the following pieces of art. I HOPE (hahaha) you enjoy my vision of the quotes I chose

This is just how I see the word HOPE – Bright cheerful, full of warm happiness

I have a facination w/trees. I believe it’s because each tree is unique & has endless possiblities. Trees never stop growing. They all have their own species but we all look at them the same w/awe. When their time has come we are curious about the age. What do we do? We cut it open at it’s widest base & count it’s rings. Trees out live us. Trees have history. If they could talk oh the stories they could tell.

“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world” In this quote I saw HOPE as Hercules

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” George Iles Created using soft pastels & vine charcoal

Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all… Emily Dickinson I envisioined this “thing” as a colorful yet semi goofy looking bird that just perched inside you singing away. The soul was to vague of an item to sketch becuase I believe it is something we cannot see until we leave this life BUT it is something that lives w/in each of us

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” Tertullian I liked this quote once I started creating the piece I felt like I was just phoning it in BUT didn’t want to leave the quote out of the book & couldn’t come up w/another version/vision

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” Robert Green Ingersoll When I stumbled across this quote I saw a vision of hordes of bees buzzing over a desert but as I played & sketched I wanted the hive to be alone w/the desert behind it, while oozing honey

“Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.” With this quote I played w/different ideas in the end I wanted the people to be fluid & easily moved about but looking to each other for support up.

IF Highlight

1st challenge of the new year & here I am. The word given out last Friday by Illustration Friday was Highlight.

This is the current Highlight of my Sketchbook Project Due mid February 2012

 

I’ve tried replicating this a few times but they all pale in comparison to the original

IF Silent

Here is my Illustration Friday piece.

She just appeared on paper in a moment of high frustration. I had been working on greeting cards & nothing was coming to me. Maybe I was just tired of the fall theme not quite sure just know I had thrown 3 cards away. It was time to walk away but I didn’t want to stop creating art. So I pulled out my moleskin doodle pad & started sketching. Then she appeared.

When she was done I sat back looked at her & said “Why? Why can’t I accomplish this all the time?” my next thought was “DAMN! She’s in my doodle moleskin sketchbook on crappy paper” I believe if I scan her in on high quality she can be used as a portfolio piece & maybe even my business card….. I know I’m not being very SILENT

She is created in a Moleskin sketchbook using my 6B pencil on a frustating Monday night

Fall Cards

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IF: Mesmerize

This my contribution to a weekly art word challenge.

Funny story about this girl. I was sitting in the dark not to tired 3 days after my surgery. I thought to myself stack of sketchbooks, pencils & an art business book next to me. I wasn’t up for getting up. Knew if I put the lights on my spouse would wake up & he needed to be to work at 6am. So I figured what the heck sketch in the dark what’s the worse that could happen.

A few “what’s that” & then this piece which started out as an odd line sketch.

Week #3 Apple a Day project

Here is week #3 of the apple a day challenge. I used a mixture of my vine charcoals & then for my hard edges (because I have to have my hard edges) I used my regular hard charcoal.  I attempted to use my charcoal pencils but I strongly disliked the results.

 

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Day 18 & 19 are my favorites this week.

 

I’m not sure what I’ll use next week – colored pencils OR crayons hmmmmm