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Last week’s Illustration Friday that I never got posted. Oops.
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My friend L. has had more bad luck in the past few months than anyone I know. Probably every black cat, broken mirror, and full moon has come her way, making some emotional and mental damage nigh irreparable. And oh, she’s so sweet and soft and lovable that it nearly breaks my heart. The sorts of things that have happened could be best sellers. They really could.
So when I sat down to do this week’s Illustration Friday with the topic “enough,” I thought of her. In a few weeks she’s jetting off to grad school in a new state, a new world, a new adventure and she can (and I really do hope this) leave behind the people and things that cause the most trouble in her life. So this is dedicated to her.
It is a large piece, please click on it to see it better. It is acrylic on watercolor paper.
“I’ve had enough,” she said. “We’re flying away from all this.”
I apologize this week’s Illustration Friday is coming in so very late.
The topic is “Sour”
Please meet Mildred Q. The question is, is she a “Sour Puss” or is it that letter she has just read that makes her look so dour? We may never know. As soon as she tore it into tiny little pieces, she swallowed them all up!
This week’s Illustration Friday’s topic is “Saved” which I’ve been toiling with all week. I didn’t want to do another garden picture (well that’s not true, I secretly did want to do another Garden picture) and I’ve been working so much on my Etsy shop stuff that I just didn’t want to do another drawing.
Then it hit me. All week I’ve been talking about The Green Apple Project and how it means saving the Earth, one little bit at a time. There you go! Saved!
I watercolored the green apple for The Green Apple Project a few days ago. I’ll tell you what, not to toot my own horn but when I look at my little painting, I can actually smell a freshly sliced green apple. I can taste it in the back of my throat. It’s amazing. Woot.
So here is the original water color and then the one as the logo. Enjoy!
Getting the color right was tricky. Everyone knows what a green apple is supposed to look like. Hell, it’s practically a color on it’s own (certainly it is also a flavor of Saki that I’m particularly fond of). I mixed maybe four different greens before getting it just right. The font is one I discovered a very, very long time ago (on a website far far away, sorry too long ago to remember where I got it or purchased it) called “Black Boys on Mopeds.” I’m not much of a font buff to tell you anymore about it than that.
This week’s Illustration Friday (IF) topic is “Heavy.” I was so excited about “Garden Party” last week and those awesome little insects, I decided they needed to make another appearance.
“Escape!” is about every insects worst nightmare- the torrential appearance of water. Whether it is a small drop to us or an avalanche of a garden hose unattended, every water hole is a potential doomsday for the garden folk. Here, the group flies to safety with
the strength of the ladybug, the tenacity of the ants and the inventiveness of the caterpillar. Who knew bugs could be so handy? He’s a modern Inspector Gadget, that one.
My only complaint was that the background scanned in a weird dark gray instead of the light green I painted it. No idea why but attempts to fix it were met with failure. Ah well. Now it sort of looks like the rain showers haven’t passed yet, and danger still looms.So it works!
Image for this week’s Illustration Friday. The topic is “Garden”
Almost immediately I had in my head a caterpillar rocking out- thus “Garden Party” was born. I love them very much.
March 9, 2008 “Garden Party” S.L.Wiegert
“Leap” for Illustration Friday. This is my first time participating, but I’m pretty excited about it.
“To Leap or not to Leap?” -S.L.Wiegert 2008
To leap or not to leap, that is the question. Considering I am a married woman, you’d think I’d be all for taking the plunge. I’m not for getting married just to be married. Marriage is great. But it is hard, complicated, hurtful, awkward, embarrassing, frustrating, claustrophobic. It is all the words that are opposite of these, too, but I think these are the words most people pretend not to recognize. You have to be able to take the good and the bad and roll with all the punches, and know when to call it quits and when to fight and know when to kiss it all better.
Know thyself, first. I think women jump into the whole marriage thing too fast, too furious, too determined to just Get There.
The week of our one year anniversary of dating, a female co-worker of my husband’s asked him if he was going to propose, because, she said, she’d never stay with a man who wouldn’t propose after a year. “Why waste the time?” she told him. She also told him I was going to leave him if he didn’t. We dated for another year before getting engaged. These are the kinds of conversations that plague me.
All I’m saying is, sure it’s sweet and romantic and comforting and exciting and sometimes easier than being alone. But it’s the opposite of all these, sometimes, too.
So to leap, or not to leap? It sure is a long way down. . .
I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic!
