trees

Oh, happy days...

This week's challenge and one of my favourite themes... tree!

fly away...

Hope everybody had a good week, here's a little something I put together for this week's IF theme: sky

Enjoy!

gwanadon

Like every boy (and many girls), I went through that ubiquitous dinosaur phase, you know the one ;)

Also popular with kids is the 'mad scientist' phase... the one where if you were to, say, combine a rhino and an iguana, you might get this:

It was at this point I realised that I'd basically drawn the (very) dated, Crystal Palace Iguanodon (1852), which sports the cool nose-spike; "...their thumb spikes were mistaken for horns, and they were depicted as elephant-like quadrupeds...".

Crazy!

life orientation

I've been working with collages quite a lot the last couple of years, mostly for educational illustrations and covers. This is the largest one I did, for the interior of a Life Orientation book, the concept was to have 4 illustrations that could fit into one greater whole. 

So this is in fact the entire piece, if you chop it up into quarters each would have been a separate entity in the printed book (though the bottom pieces were rotated to look "upright") . 

The subject lends itself very well to the medium and I was able to quite literally throw the kitchen sink in there!

imagination

Imagination... how else are you ever going to get the chance to ride the fabled Lionosaurus?!

This is in fact the original version of the pic in this post... not sure which one I like best... which one do you like?

spring's sprout

Well it's official, after a beautifully mild sunny day (and only 5 days late), spring has arrived!

So, to celebrate, here's a little sprout...

(and is that the shadow of winter looming in the back?)

tall

Yes, yes...

It's a giraffe...
                   and it's tall...

and this week it belongs on IF!

:)