Lydia's entry into the 'SEA' book

The Sea - calm, tranquil, beautiful?  Full of monsters or a monster itself?  A powerful and uncontrollable force of nature.

Lydia's entry into Jeane's pattern book.

I noticed a recurring theme of nature in Jeane's book.  The combination of plants and animals sparked an image of red squirrels scampering through the undergrowth at the bottom of my garden.  I love the way their bodies seem to flow in a repetitive wavy movement.  After playing with the sequence of various frozen body shapes, I chose to repeat one particular pose I thought represents this flow that squirrels seem to have.  I have always been attracted to images in multiples, so have simply repeated this single pose to create a surface pattern.

Mary's recent entries

First Impressions sketchbook. I find I am increasingly playing with word and image combinations.

Illusion book. 

Color(ing) Book.  olio urging books seem to plunge me back to childhood so I took my drawing back there too!

Jeane's entry in Mary's Journey Book

Ahhh,  galloping to Le Grand Rocher.  What a journey!!!  And a fantastic ECIS conference.  Those  who were there might recognize the lone tree in my entry.

Angela's Book / Petr's Entry

Some time ago (2 years maybe) - our kids got a book of fairytales from around the world. Matyas fell in love with one tale – about a liar from Ireland – and had me read it to him on countless evenings. It is a wicked tale indeed.
An emperor promises to wed his daughter to any man who will force him to shout out: “You liar!” A boy from Ireland tells the Emperor a story in which he eventually falls from sky, gets stuck between 2 stones, cuts off his own head and sends it with a message to the Emperor. A fox finds the head on its way, which upsets our liar and so he runs after the fox to cut off his/her tail. Hence the piece…

Throughout and after completion I realized a couple rather unconscious influences:

Fantastic Mr. Fox – an ingenious movie by Wes Anderson. I love Mr. Fox!

The wolves in the walls – one of my top favourite children’s book – written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean.

Fables in general!

I love this blog, reading the posts, seeing your work but your book, Angela, made me realize how insufficient it is in delivering the essence and subtleties of some of the pieces. Your piece is so very gorgeous – the detail and care - hat off!

And your book has got such a great flow!

Angela's entry into Ana's Color(ing) Book

Angela's entry into Jeane's Pattern book