Sunday, April 29, 2007

Illustration Friday: Remember


Illustration Friday: Remember
watercolor pencils
I remember staying at the beach house last summer and the boys playing their gameboys in the stairwell.
I have been working on this picture for a while, I finished it this week, so I figured it would work for my Illustration Friday submission. Scroll down to see a different version of this same picture made with words.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Illustration Friday...Polar


Illustration Friday...Polar
Pen and Ink
This week's theme was "Polar". This is a picture of my daughter playing with her MegaBlock Penguins and Polar Bears. No, she isn't about to eat her toys with her giant man-hands:) Can you tell I have a few issues with this picture? Drawing with pen is pretty unforgiving, so I just have to live with the consequences. By the way, she doesn't really have giant man-hands, they just look that way in my drawing.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Illustration Friday...Fortune


Illustration Friday...Fortune

Graphite Pencil

This week's theme for Illustration Friday was "Fortune". I had a really hard time thinking of something to go along with the theme. One symbol of Good Fortune in Korea is the bat. Sometimes symbols like this are carved in the the roof tiles. This is the closest thing I could find to a bat (The middle section carvings represent a bat). Also, there is a dragon in the upper right hand tile. Dragons are also a symbol of good luck here. I may be stretching it, but it was kind of fun to draw anyway.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Illustration Friday: Green

Illustration Friday: Green

Watercolor and Colored Pencils

This week's topic was "Green". I thought of Korean celadon ceramics and green tea. Korean's love green tea, you can get all kinds of things with green tea flavor (cookies, candy, cereal, muffins, ice cream, and even green tea McFlurries at McDonald's).

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Gameboys

Gameboys
Pen and Ink

Zoom in closely to see that this entire picture is made of words. This is a picture of my son and two nephews while we were at the beach last summer. They were sitting in the stairway playing gameboy.

In one of my classes, we were talking about values. You can use anything to create different values (lines, dots, patterns, even words). For one of their projects they had to draw a picture and use words to create the light and dark values in the picture. When you look closely you see all of the words, when you step back, you see a picture.I did this picture as an example and to work out any kinks my students might run across.

Most of the words say: Zeke, Andrew, Jack, Pinnow, cousins, gameboy, play, fun, win, concentrate, Gulfshores, Alabama, Beach. There are a few areas in the drawing where I wrote about our trip (kind of like a journal- who was there, where we stayed etc.).

There are a few problem areas in it, but my experiment worked out ok. I think I will try to do this picture again---normally (meaning no words).