IF - Star

Illustration Friday challenge

IF - Ink

Illustration Friday Challenge - Ink

I used parallel pens with ink.

Can you tell where I got the inspiration?

This is a swatch for my 2016 calendar t-towel.

See the full towel here

Path

Illustration Friday challenge - Path

Watercolour and pen

Trumpets

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is Noise.

Collage, brusho inks, pen

Jagged

The Illustration Friday challenge is 'Jagged'

Passion

This is for the Illustration Friday challenge - passion. It's been a while since I last entered. The background is one of the gelli prints I did last week. The heart is from a card I did, it's textured with gold stitching around the edge [which you cannot see now unless you look very closely]. The fish were drawn on my tablet.

IF - Repeat

Illustration Friday challenge - repeat

IF - Beard

Illustration Friday challenge - beard

IF - Natural

Illustration Friday challenge

Exotic Fairy

The Illustration Friday challenge is exotic.

Created on an android tablet. I used some embroidery work for her clothes and skeleton leaves for wings.

IF - Spirit

'If only I had arms'

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'spirit' which has many definitions but I thought I would go with the alcoholic kind.

Dogs, IF - crooked

I entered this picture for the Illustration Friday challenge - crooked

Identical - IF

I created this digital collage for the Illustration Friday challenge - Identical.

I used the watercolour paintings and paper collages below.

The girls head was made from a tag.

The flower petals below were made from a pattern in a magazine.

Yield [IF], Polar Birds and Tap Collages

Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'yield'.

Yield – to give up, as to superior power or authority - The pig has given up his sty to the giant frog

Below - Polar Birds - Collage/altered photographs, watercolour and white pen background, found images of polar bears and birds, white pen decoration on birds heads

Collage of found images/altered photographs

Intention [IF] and Red Collage

Illustration Friday - Intention

It was my intention to make a strange creature and so I have.

Watercolours and collage [the bird head and hog body were found images]

Below - collage of painted papers, found papers, printed and painted papers, then freehand machine stitched

Capable [IF] and Shape Challenges

For the Illustration Friday challenge - capable

Birds and animals seem very capable at finding food

Collage -watercolour backgrounds, found images 

I accidentally dropped some water in the middle of this picture, hence the blob

Another shape challenge, these are the shapes

and this is what I created with them

and another set of shapes [the green part is bleed thru from the other side]

weird flowers?

Shoes, Roses and Fluid [IF]

Brush pen drawings, my version of shoes from an historical costume book

I drew around a coaster for the shape below

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'fluid'.

Farrah the frog

Couldn't see the hole

Now she has found

She is stuck in the bowl

Envelopes and IF [suspense]

I created this envelope on the computer using a free label from here and doing a few alterations such as space for a stamp. I printed it and made it into an envelope. The envelope below was already a cute little square brown envelope. For this one I used a purchased stamp to decorate around the edges.

Illustration Friday's challenge this week is 'suspense'. I used this drawing from my sketchbook of a giant prawn and a man on a beach. Are the tables turned? Will the prawn eat the man instead of the other way round?

Forward [IF] and more Boat Pages

Illustration Friday challenge - Forward

I was in quilt mode when I did the above, just the painting though, I didn't get around to doing a quilt.  I did a series of polar bears and other wild animals.

Watercolours

Watercolours and collage

Pen, watercolours, collage

Pen background. The boats are made from painted papers and stitched

Moo [TAW] and Twirl [IF]

Take a word challenge - Moo. I've not done a 'moo' before, I thought it was something to do with a cow but evidently not. It is a little card which measures 1.10 x 2.80 inches. The skirt, legs and blouse are from a vintage sewing book I have, the arm[s] was from artchive.com, the head and the background were from Karen Whimsy

Illustration Friday challenge - Twirl 

The original shown below was a brush pen doodle which I altered in Paint.net for the twirl challenge.