It just so happens this is the second time Illustration Friday’s assignment corresponds with a project I am currently working on. Here is an excerpt from the rough sketch of one page (I’m hoping it’s kosher to post this):
terrified sheep
Ok it’s an inside joke. Dan’s post (below) just conjured up this image in my mind. 😛
“…..unless you want me putting up the blurry snappies of Gostaz doing a striptease by moonlight in a field of terrified sheep.”
As per Gostaz’s reply to my image (“I have heard of squirrels and squids on bikes, but sheep? WOW!”)… I got a little frisky:
Only Sheep ride with Squids(a poem by Chris Yates, edited by me and used with permission)
Some folks ride bikes,
But only with people.
Never with squids,
But sometimes, a sheep’ll.
Robert’s Snow
No I didn’t do a snowflake, I only just found out about it, but it’s really awesome.
It’s a shame that Robert lost his life to the cancer but it’s wonderful what he and his wife have started here. They have many, many artists who have decorated wooden snowflakes that they are auctioning to raise money for research to help fight sarcoma. The results are, as you can imagine, as varied as the artists. Have a look:
I recognize so many of the artist’s names from their children’s books, SCBWI, or even just from Illustration Friday!
I’d like to do one next year, too. If I can.
“In memory of Robert Mercer who lost his fight against sarcoma in August 2007. Robert and his wife Grace Lin founded Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure in 2004. Since that time, the event has raised more than $200,000 for Dana-Farber.”
Grow
I’m taking a study break at work today. Just a wee little entry this week since it’s been a while:
Rosh Hashannah
Wednesday night begins the (Jewish) new year. I’ve been wanting to make a greeting card for Rosh Hashanna (literally “the head of the year”) for a while. On a whim, I decided to be a masochist and do it in digital mosaic tile. I guess it’s because I’d had fun doing the digital tile a few years back designing “The Unswept Plate.”
The Hebrew says “Leshanah tovah tikatavu” May you be inscribed (into the book of life) for a good new year. The horn is the Shofar, the ram’s horn that called Jews to prayer in biblical times. These days it ceremonially heralds the new year and the sealing of the book of life for the coming year. The apples represent sweetness. We Jews tend to eat symbolically for our holidays and for the new year, it’s all things sweet. Traditionally, it’s apples and honey and honey cakes.
At any rate, I’ve uploaded the card for sale at GCU and Cafepress.
L’shannah tovah.
Many Moons
“The princess was lying in bed, but she was wide awake and she was looking out the window at the moon shining in the sky. Shining in her hand was the moon the court jester had got for her…” — James Thurber
Last week, the Illustration Friday subject was “Moon”. That was ironic because I’m working on a book about the moon. I spent all last weekend drawing moons, but I couldn’t post any of those illustrations! I’ve been wanting to do some illustrations for James Thurber’s “Many Moons” for a while now so I figured I play with that. I’m continuing to experiment with illustrating in all Flash. I wanted to post this for last week’s Illustration Friday but the time got away with me, so I’m hoping that it still works for “Missing” and I’m not cheating too badly!
The moon is not missing from the sky because it is hanging around Lenore’s neck. The sky has simply grown another moon.