Humorous Illustration
From the monthly archives:
Although scolded every time, juggling the farm animals was a habit Cindy couldn’t kick until her early teens.
Update:
I played with this a little more to give it a warmer hand sketched look. I kinda dig the rougher feel of the cow below. What do you think? What style do you think children’s book publishers would welcome more? Click on the cow to see it up close.
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Almost 10 years ago a friend asked me to draw this illo for her because she was getting married at such an old age (she was probably in her early 40s at the time), and she actually used it on the front of her wedding announcement. I still can’t believe it.
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Not terribly long ago I found a new love. She’s hard at first, but with warm hands and a firm touch, she loosens up and becomes more pliable. Her fleshy tones are a bit unnerving, just begging for a little primer before her true colors shout out.
Super Sculpey, I can’t keep my hands off you. You form so easily and even in the face of ice cold sculpting tools, you bend to my every whim. You never complain about me putting you in your place, and never, ever, do you revert to your original form.
Through the refiner’s fire you emerge as tough and determined as ever to please. Your final act in life is to become what you were destined to become: Art.
Super Sculpey, may you never become brittle in the face of adversity, and may your true form show forever.
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Some daily doodles, and… what’s this? Color?! Wow, I am getting ambitious.
Ball point pen and watercolor.
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I was laying down for a nap with my youngest daughter when she was 3 years old, and she likes to snuggle. We were face to face on the pillow, and right as she was falling asleep she expressed her abhorrence to the smell of my breath and sleepily said, “Daddy, will you shut your face?”.
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