Illustration Friday: Clique

Illustration Friday: Clique

Colored Pencil and Marker

My students were doing tessellations this week and it inspired me to create this one for this week's Illustration Friday.

Illustration Friday: Clutter

Illustration Friday: Clutter

Pen and Ink

I often feel like the clutter around me towers over me and I will never be able to clean it all up!

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Illustration Friday: Detach

Illustration Friday: Detach

Acrylic

I don't think I have done an Illustration Friday project since June. It has been a busy summer. This week's theme was "Detach". I went out jogging this morning and passed by these flowers with some petals and even a little flower had come detached after the rain.

Landscape

Seoul Landscape

Watercolor and colored pencil

I took an online teacher workshop through the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer. The workshop focused on landscapes and I learned so much. One of our assignments required us to create a landscape that depicted our environment. I made a picture of Gyeongbokkung, a palace in downtown Seoul. It shows one of the things that I love about living here---seeing buildings that are hundreds of years old surrounded by modern skyscrapers.

Illustration Friday: Forgotten

Illustration Friday: Forgotten

Pen and Ink

This week's theme was "Forgotten". I drew images from the Korean War (1950-1953) which is often called "The Forgotten War". June 6 was Korean Memorial day so that is what I thought of when I saw the theme for the week.

Illustration Friday: Baby

Illustration Friday: Baby

Colored Pencil and Graphite Pencil

For this week's theme of "Baby", I thought about my children. No matter how old they are, they will always be my babies. First I drew a picture of them in graphite pencil when they were little (about seven and a half years ago). Then I drew a colored pencil picture of them from this year (they were so excited about their ice cream!). When both were done I cut them in strips and combined them into one picture. It is kind of bizarre, but I liked the effect.

Illustration Friday: Worry

Illustration Friday: Worry

Pen

This week's theme for Illustration Friday is "worry". I thought of the famous Depression era photo by Dorothea Lange. You can read the worry all over her face. I focused in on the woman's face and made the shading with words of things that make people worry. Be sure to zoom in to see the words.