Illustration Friday: 100%

Illustration Friday: 100%

Pen and Colored Pencil

This week's Illustration Friday theme was 100%. I decided to draw a picture of our refrigerator upon which hangs some of the papers we are very proud of. My son has two math quizzes that received 100% (these were a very big deal for him) and my daughter hung up an art picture in which she earned a top grade for.

Illustration Friday: Soar

Illustration Friday: Soar

Acrylic Paint

In August 2004, my 3 1/2 year old niece Hanna died of cancer (http://www.caringbridge.org/ms/hanna/). In November of that year on what would have been her fourth birthday, her friend Eli was with his family at DisneyWorld. He had the Disney Princesses sign a balloon with messages for Hanna and they released it in front of Cinderella's Castle. Eli's little brother was a patient with Hanna at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. You can see the photos from his balloon release at http://www.bens-story.com/disney.html.

Illustration Friday: Excess

Illustration Friday: Excess (The Allens)

Acrylic

The theme for Illustration Friday was "excess". I just finished painting this picture and it kind of went with the theme so I posted it. It is actually a joke. The middle school staff at my school had a White Elephant Gift Exchange (where you give each other tacky, weird presents). As a joke, I painted a "portrait" of two of our teachers (who both happen to be named Allen). It was a big hit at the party. On the left of the seated Allen is a blonde wig (he always jokes about his long flowing golden hair). On the right of the standing Allen is a picture of his parasite. At the party, someone took a picture of the two Allens in this pose holding the picture. I will try to post it when I get a picture of it.

Illustration Friday: Superstition

Illustration Friday: Superstition

Tempra Paint Batik

This week's theme is "Superstition". In Korea, magpies represent good luck. Supposedly if you see a magpie in the morning you will hear good news or receive visitors.

Method: I drew the bird on heavy paper. Next I painted all the areas with tempra paint except where I wanted it to be black. When the paint was dry, I covered everything with black ink. When the ink was dry, I put the picture under running water and rinsed off the ink. The ink washes off of the paint and sticks to the paper where there is no paint. After the picture dried, I went back and painted over some of the areas that looked too faded.

Illustration Friday: Hats

Illustration Friday: Hats

Cut Paper Collage

This week's theme for Illustration Friday was "hats". I tried to create a hat shop window. I had a few different ideas, but I wanted to make something out of paper. This is what I came up with.

Illustration Friday: Grow

Illustration Friday: Grow

Graphite pencil with a sepia colored pencil overlay

For this week's theme of "grow", I automatically thought of my kids. I decided to draw a picture from a photo of my kids when they were younger. I always loved this one. I think the drawing looks much better than the uploaded image. For some reason I couldn't get the coloring to look the same on the computer. The real photo was done in sepia tones, so I drew this picture in graphite pencil and then lightly colored over the top with a colored pencil to give it that sepia tone look.

Illustration Friday: Open

Illustgration Friday: Open

Graphite Pencil and Colored Pencil

This week's theme was "Open". I drew this picture from an old photograph of my daughter when she was a baby. I love seeing such a sweet little yawn.

It started out as a graphite pencil drawing. I then added a little colored pencil over the top to give it that feeling of an old colorized photo.