Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Suff - Illustration Friday - Grow

This theme is Grow. I wanted to post yesterday but it rained a little bit in New Orleans, and the city and the suburbs almost flooded! The boss let us go home at 2:30 p.m., during a lull in the storms.

The background is an old book. I put two or three layers of gesso last summer and colored it in watercolor.

I wanted to show how life passes when you grow through the growth of a hand.

I traced my hand with a marker, then I found a baby's hand in a magazine ad, traced it and enlarged the baby's hand to draw the middle one.

The baby's hand is on musical notes with various pencil colors. The middle hand is a library date due sticked, painted in oil pastels.

I also added some botanical images with stamps and paper. The paper has leaves or trees. The stamps are of plants.

2 comments:

iliana said...

Ooh I like this - funky. I especially like how you incorporated pages from an old book.
Watch out for floods!

WorkingWords100 said...

It's beautiful today. Thank God!

I am working toward being a better collager. Practice makes perfect and the Friday Illustration will push me to improve.