There was a short time each year in early spring when the giants fur hadn’t yet moulted and the creature would be easier to find. It had to hide to save it’s hide…

The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘hide’...
I made this image using collaged shapes of paper and then added detailing in coloured pencil and acrylic paint. I had some good old fashioned fun without any digital tomfoolery!

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The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘crash’...
And for your pleasure a show and tell of the different stages…

*I started with a quick pencil-sketch in my A5 sketchbook.

*I then scanned that image and printed it off slightly bigger, to roughly fit an A4 piece of paper. I then traced that print-out on my lightbox onto a nice piece of watercolour paper with pen and ink.

*I then gave the drawing a subtle colourwash using Payne’s grey and yellow ocre watercolour… Hey Presto!

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They found the luminous sprouts right where the witch had predicted they would be.

The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘sprout’...

...I try with all my might, but inspiration fails me.

The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘might’.
(I’m cheating really, cause this is my illustration for last weeks word ‘invention’...I just never got to post it in time…)

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‘T was on a clear night such as this…
when forest shadows came out onto the plains.

The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘clear’...

When I’m busy, my ghosts get ignored…

A quick (and rather late) entry for Illustration Friday, the word this week is ‘ghost’.

The experimental school play about vivisection was a roaring success, despite a mortified Rosemary, who’s inebriated mother had failed to sew her daughter a matching sack.
The audience had been particularly impressed by the young girls convincing sobs…

Illustration Friday’s word this week is match.

The trees had been playing their ongoing game of ‘statues’ all night.
The scarlet ibis’ paid them no mind…

Illustration Friday’s word this week is ‘play’...

Harriet was finally thankful for the years of relentless training.
She was now stealthy enough to evade capture from the Don’s enormous guards.

A late entry for Illustration Friday. The word this week is skyline…
This image was inspired by my previous post.
Since then the weather hasn’t improved much and the building still seems enveloped by a giant cloud. Suppose that’s what you get when you go and live in the docks…