illustration friday: CRACKED

Colour pencil and pen on paper.
The nuthatch and the beech nut.

illustration friday: THEATER

Colour pencil and pen on paper.

Down at the pond there is always a live soap opera!

illustration friday: IMPOSSIBILITY

Colour pencil and pen on paper.

I wanted to illustrate that actually nothing is impossible; that todays world would have seemed an impossibility to our ancestors.

illustration friday: FLEETING

Colour pencil on paper.

Spring yourself off a spring board and for a fleeting moment you believe you can fly.

illustration friday: POISE

Pencil on paper.

illustration friday: SUBTRACT

Watercolour on paper.

Subtract the pollution and the fish reclaim the rivers.

illustration friday: LEGENDARY

Watercolour and pencil on Paper.

The Geese set off on their long journey to the moon. Even though we now know they don't go to the moon, their migration is still pretty legendary.

illustration friday: INSTINCT

Watercolour on card.

I completed Job's birthday card just before I saw this weeks topic for Illustration Friday. The card depicts the 'Great Salmon Migration' this weeks subject on the BBC's 'Nature's Great Events' series.

illustrate friday: CELEBRATE

Watercolour and Colour Pencils on Paper.

The snow has melted and the Sparrows are celebrating because the first signs of Spring are here.

illustration friday: TIME

Watercolour on paper.
Different generations of the same family climbing ever higher up the tree.

illustration friday: FLAWED

Watercolour on paper.

Was thinking along the lines of birds that can't fly and then I remembered the girls at the school who can't join in with all the games because of their flawed footwear.

illustration friday: CLIMBING

Happy Year of the Ox!
I'm really struggling to get a good photo of this drawing - hopefully the light will be better tomorrow. Colour pencils on paper (sky added in photoshop).

illustration friday: PALE

Colour pencils on paper.

illustration friday: CONTAINED

Mixed media collage. Colouring pencils and Oil Pastels on Paper with Newspaper papercut on a background of very old wall paper.

This topic reminded me of a drawing I did when I was a little girl after a trip to the zoo. My mother wasn't very impressed when I added the finishing touches to my picture - the bars of a cage! I now understand what she was getting at hence the layered approach to this illustration.

I feel a bit like a parrot stuck in a cage in my current lodgings...

illustration friday: RESOLVE

Happy New Year! I resolve to participate in Illustration Friday...