Illustration Friday: Dusty

This week's topic for Illustration Friday is 'Dusty'. When I read this, I thought of a man I used to know, who worked for the public works department, and whose name was 'Dusty Rhodes'. LOL. Ahem. :)  Anyway, I've been playing around with ideas for Children's Illustrations lately, so my mind went to a peaceful scene (Granny Bunny) interrupted by a forceful event that blows dust everywhere...... Hope you enjoy - Comments are welcomed!

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Illustration Friday: Chicken

Well! This week's Illustration Friday theme is 'Chicken'. At first, I thought of all sorts of scenes where humans, especially children, feel timid or fearful; where they likely fear bullying or intimidation if they don't bravely do something real scary to them. Then it occurred to me: what would an actual CHICKEN do, if he/she were scared, in some human situation where children often are just that? 

So here is my Chicken, having sprung from the diving board in front of everybody........ And all of the chickens in this community are shown as headless, as if they are running around 'headless', feeling dizzy, because every one of them is too frightened to try this........

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Illustration Friday: Deja-Vu

Illustration Friday's topic for this week is 'Deja-Vu'. I had a heck of a time thinking of things to fit this theme, that could be drawn on two-dimensional paper. Then I remembered being a young girl, out on the ice skating rink, going around and around, who knows how many times, and loving it. I recalled that, each time I would skate in the direction of the mirror that covered one entire wall, & then turned the corner and skated alongside it, I would think to myself, "I've been here before". Or, "I've seen you before", and I'd giggle. So here is a children's illustration rendition of "Deja-Vu".

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Illustration Friday: Resolutions

If you squint your eyes, you should be able to see a 9-part, mixed resolutions picture of Manhattan, NY. 

For Illustration Friday this week, I decided to play around with different pixel sizes & resolutions: how do they affect what we see? How might they be distorting what we think we see? And how can they help to clarify what we see? The only 'correct resolution' (photograph & unaltered) in this image is on the lower right. This was a FUN project!


The aerial photo view credit goes to © Pierre HELGER here.

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