Wilderness

"Wilderness"
Pen & ink & Watercolor pencil

Illustration Friday helped me with one of my January Journal pages this week. It's been awhile since I participated but the this week's prompt just set me off. I LOVE how this came out! My favorite illustration of 2010! (Okay - so it's one of the only so far... but still)

This last week was pretty hectic busy for me due to having helped relocate my day job office. But despite it all I still have some more journal pages from the week for you to enjoy:

Playing with colored inks against my usual steady black.
But then here's where I finally broke through and just had crazy fun:

I am SERIOUSLY LOVING this new way of art play. It's kinda like yoga for my muse. And just like yoga - the more you do it the better it gets.

Illustration Friday "Flawed"

Illustration Friday - "Flawed"

Love Enters but Does not Stay

4" x 6"

Ink & Watercolor on coffee stained paper

The deepest flaw of all is the inability to love - yourself or others - no matter the cause.

Finally Finished - Sheep Dreams of Wren

"Sheep Dreams of Wren"

Oil on Found Wood

And he's finally officially finished! (You can read up on the progress of this painting here, here and here.)

And coincidentally enough, this painting qualifies for the Illustration Friday topic of "Routine".

The sheep, a symbol for going with the flow and moving with the masses is daydreaming of swirling flight - of being a wren. This is a depiction of my own battle with the routine of security (i.e. day job) verses the dream of taking flight and following the string of my muse wherever she will lead me (i.e. wren).

And even though I've been working on this series for some time now, this is the first time I've been able to use one for an Illustration Friday topic. The only reason I've had to wait until the last day to submit it is that the weather was not cooperating with me for the photo shoot (i.e. rain)

Illustration Friday - Fierce

"She is fierce..."

Pen & Ink on paper

6" x 9"

I thought of many ways this Illustration Friday prompt could be interpreted. In the end I just went with this free form doodle incorporating the text in her hair. Set my pen to the sketchbook paper with the word Fierce flowing through my brain and thinking of all the fierceness that we can carry inside. In me, it crops up to strut my way home safe after a late night out.

Where do you keep your fierceness?

Illustration Friday - Hoard

"Hoard"

Pen & Ink on Cream Paper

6" x 9"

This image perfectly popped into my head with this week's Illustration Friday prompt of "Hoard".

In my mind, squirrels are nature's original hoarders.

Prepared little pesky scouts they are...

Illustration Friday - Punchline

Created fresh today for Illustration Friday.

Is the prompt apparent? I sure hope so!

Sharpie Ink on found office paper

5.5" x 6"