Illustration Fridays - Toy

The best toys are the ones that everyone gets excited about!  

This was inspired my Little Ian's 6th Birthday on Friday!  Happy Birthday!

This week I used gouache paints...I like the vibrant colors...not sure...would love to hear your thoughts!

IF-Cultivate

This is a painting I did for a family friend for the holidays.  I have a very busy week coming up and don't think I'll have time to get a new piece done. It was done with acrylic paints on canvas.  Any-hoo....I thought this fit the word cultivate...I can't wait to start my gardens this year...lots of new plans!  Happy Spring everyone!

Illustration Fridays - Stir

Henry was tired of dreaming, so he set out into the world to discover new adventures!  When chef Tomas was busy stirring his sauce and reached for a bit more oregano, he was quite surprised to find Henry scurrying along!  Perhaps this kitchen should not have been his first choice for an escapde!

As I was falling asleep the other night this image popped into my head, slant and all for IF's word stir. I was somewhat reluctant as I usually shy away from "people" images...but I am very happy with how this turned out!  

Illustration Fridays - Warning

Little Green Dino didn't care about the rough seas warning...nothing could keep him from catching some gnarly waves!

IF-Swarm

Henry was a night dreamer.  He dreamed he could fly around at night with the friendly swarm of fireflies and have great adventures!

Illustration Fridays - Layers

After hearing about what happened to his brothers, the third Little Pig got right to work on his layers of bricks!

My son wanted to get into the IF action this week with his own illustration. "This picture is about aliens that are building, or trying to build a skyscraper using layers of concrete."  Andrew, age 9 1/2

Illustration Fridays - Sweater

For IF this week, I did two quick illustrations for the word is sweater.  Since it is Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share an image of me and my husband.  Before we met my husband saw me on our college campus and  (I guess) I had on a pink sweater...so from then on he referred to me as "the pink sweater chick"  (very romantic, I know.)  However, he used to tell his friends that he was going the marry that pink sweater chick.  When we finally met it was definitely love at first sight...we have been married 13 years and this is our 19th Valentine's Day together!  

Below...I thought I'd do and owl version of us!