The Cookie Queen

The Queen felt that her rules were simple - Immediately bring a cookie and pasteurized chocolate drink when requested and nobody would be banished.  So far, no one has had to go. . .

Hee hee - brown ink girl #2 - would you be surprised to find out that there is a #3 and a #4? 

Another flash card courtesy of Kim who also gifted me the milk jug "stopper"(?).  When I was a kid we used to have a milkman who delivered milk, butter, eggs, etc. to the backdoor.  I can't tell you how convenient that would be now.  Do you run out of milk as often as we do??

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Maria and her fabulous mane. . .

"Funny how people always seem to remember me for my fabulous mane rather than my fabulous brain", sighed Maria wistfully.

This silly girl was inspired by the Teesha Moore fun drawing lesson that Kristin Dudish is featuring for her next Tutorial Try-out.  Brown is my favorite color (yup, I'm weird that way) and when I found a brown pen at my mom's house one day, I compulsively swiped it for my own nefarious plans!!  

LOOK - the peonies are starting to bloom in the yard - my favorite time of the year!! 

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Paint Party Friday

Illustration Friday - FUTURE

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." - Victor Hugo

 

The topic for Illustration Friday this week is FUTURE.  An old ledger has been serving as my art journal for a few months now and made me ponder what the future held for people living in the 1950's. 

Space travel was a big theme so I decided to sketch and paint a rocket boy headed to the moon.

Look closely by the moon. . . This ledger page was written in 1956 - 13 years before man landed on the moon.  An event that seems so long ago to us was still in the future to the previous owners of this ledger.

Linking to Paper Saturdays,

Sunday Sketches, and

Creative Every Day

"Shaytards"

This page was inspired by a series of videos by Raeart on Youtube.  They are called The Shaytards Painting so Caleb refers to these guys as Shaytards - as in, "Mom, would you like to draw and paint some Shaytards with me?"  I tried to explain that Shaytards is probably the name of the family that was going to receive the finished painting but he remains unconvinced. 

It was really fun drawing these faces all together in a bunch like that - even added a mini dinosaur in there.  Quote is from Lemony Snicket. 

I know that I took a preliminary picture of both of our "Shaytards" when they were still pencil drawings but I seem to have misplaced it, so here is a picture with the first layer of paint. 

Added Neocolor for shading and fun dots from the handy dandy Sharpie paint pen.  I had some issues with the black ink though - I can't seem to find a pen that puts down BLACK ink and can write over the Neocolor crayons.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!   Caleb is still working on his "Shaytard" - like most 11 year old boys he has more stamina for video games than he does for painting.

Fun how the finished page looks like some weird trophy or statuary!

Linking to Glue It Tuesday - Artsyville,

Paint Party Friday,

Show and Tell Saturday,

Art Journal Every Day

Illustration Friday - TRIBUTE

This week's Illustration Friday topic is TRIBUTE which inspired this art nouveau tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh.  Doing a Google Image search under his name will show an abundance of gorgeous stained glass and furniture that he designed.

This particular piece of his matches the colors for the current Play Date Cafe Challenge of Black/White and a Splash of Pink.   

India ink applied directly through the dropper allowed the thick lines.  My first attempt was with Tulip Black Dimensional Paint which was a spectacular failure! Wondering if the problem is the bottle of paint I have - it keeps coming out in tiny streams and then HUGE globs - the tip doesn't seem to be blocked though.  Would have made really cool faux leading more like a stained glass window had it worked.

Colored the pink with a Neocolor crayon and a waterpen. 

Linking to Sunday Sketches,

Play Date Cafe Challenge,

Artist's Playroom #56,

Paper Saturdays and Creative Every Day

Ephemera Girl -

Used some vintage ephemera on this girl to change things up a bit. 

Vintage wallpaper, page from Gregg's shorthand book and an old book quote mix in with some stenciled and sprayed papers.

Started with a pencil sketch - 

First layer of paint - I need to work on making girls that look a bit more happy - 

Lots of shading and background color from Panpastels -they are so fast and easy to work with!

Linking to Glue it Tuesday - Artsyville,

Art Journal Every Day, and

Paint Party Friday

A Cheshire Farewell. . .

 

"the return makes one love the farewell" - Alfred de Musset

The Illustration Friday topic this week is FAREWELL.  After ciphering a bit about how to portray that idea without sketching a person waving, I remembered the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.  He would fade away until nothing was visible but his big smiling mouth. 

I was able to recreate that idea with a layer of vellum on top of a brightly colored girl - cutting out the mouth area allowed her face to be hazy while her lips remained vibrant!

 

Connor calls this girl Watermelon Head. . . 

Linking to Play Date Cafe Challenge,

Paper Saturdays,

Show and Tell Saturday,

Sunday Sketches,

Creative Every Day