Illustration Friday: Equipment

Just a quick sketch--since I haven't posted in a while. This is my husband with his SCUBA equipment.

Illustration Friday: Linked

It has been quite a while since I posted--Life getting in the way.
So the most obvious link going on here is the tractor linked to the trailer. But this image links through time and generations too. I took my kids to visit my parents over Easter--so you have the Grandpa-grand kids link. But this link runs even deeper because MY grandpa build this tractor and trailer from scratch! Imagine being able to make a tractor.
This is my photo-base style.

Illustration Friday: Perspective

An unusual perspective: the Guide Chicken. I was teaching one point perspective to a group of third graders. While I was talking about guide lines, I lost their attention. So I started talking about chickens instead. When I mentioned "guide chicken" their attention returned. "What's a guide chicken?" Well that is an illustration challenge, what would a guide chicken look like. (more importantly what would a guide chicken do? Not as loyal or as smart as a dog...)

Illustration Friday: Propagate

It's been a while since I posted an IF. And when I read this one, I thought no way to create an appropriate children's illustration without using bunnies. So I wasn't going to do it until I walked into my son's room and saw the pile of paper airplanes accumulating there. Paper airplanes certainly have been propagating around here lately!

Illustration Friday: Clumsy

We went to Pier 39 in San Francisco yesterday, and the kids went through Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze. That is definitely a place where you don't want to be clumsy. Magowan himself said that teenagers have a blast, especially if they have a clumsy friend.
This is my traced photo technique. Photo by Alexander Hanlin.
He kept getting turned around, and leading his sister out the entrance--but they finally manged to get through with the "one hand on the wall" suggestion.

Illustration Friday: (Rock'n thru the) Wilderness

"Rocket through the wilderness" ~ B52's

The line from Roam came into my head with this topic. We now have Rock Band 2 and both kids can play it. (This wasn't the case with the original Rock Band game.) But I also thought about childhood being a type of wilderness--roaming through uncharted territory before gaining adulthood. And how quickly the landscape changes.

Illustration Friday: Confined

We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium this weekend, and while I was peering into a tank with baby giant clams, I thought of the IF topic: confined. How more confined could an animal be than stuck to a rock waiting for dinner to float by? (not to mention being stuck on a rock inside a tank.)