Camouflage

Holy Moses...! Here we are, another new week, another new word!! Ahhh, but this time, I'm on top of Illustration Friday...

Thanks to my friend Carole, when I told her the new word... her idea was waaaay better then what I had.. Although I'm sorry Carole, it most likely wasn't what you had envisioned.

Camouflage... great word, what are we trying to hide? Most people are trying to hide something.. With me, it's my emotions.. I camouflage my emotions with laughter. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail miserably.

In this case, my camouflage is a scrawny kid, trying to look bigger by wearing baggy clothes. Rock on dude!

Rejection

It's been a while since I've done any illustrations for Illustration Friday.. I really didn't think that I'd be doing this weeks either. Rejection... how in the hell do you illustrate ....... REJECTION...?

Sitting in my hotel room Sunday night.. I felt insignificant and very much alone.. I sat and thought about the current turn of events in my life... and then my illustration came to me..

All friendships go through tough times, up times and down times... It's the true friendships that can weather and endure those times, those are the friendships that will become stronger because of it.. Which made me think of my best friend, Ann... We're going through a tough time right now.. I'm not even sure if we'll ever be able to recover from it.... only time will tell I guess...

Sadness, sadness is a word that comes to mind when I think of rejection. I wanted it to come through in my illustration... So, which one is me...? The answer may surprise you. I gave, I opened my heart even though I had many reservations.... I trusted, I cared.. I love my best friend like a sister... and yet.... here I am... walking away, due to differences, expectations.. hurt feelings.. harsh words.... Walking away... hmmmm..... rejection.....

This is one of the few pictures that I put very little color into it.. I wanted it to feel as bleak and drained as I feel right now... but through it all, all I can say, is that if it's meant to be, this too will work out and we will be stronger friends.. We'll understand even more about each other...

Which one is me?.. you ask.... Honestly... both....

"Fortune"

Fortune... It was my good "Fortune" to stumble across the Friday Illustration
website...Hmmm , should I illustrate "Fortune" as in riches?
"Fortune" as in luck, good or bad? Or... "Fortune" as a seer, a person
who will tell the future... I chose that last option.... So, as an artist, as a visionary myself... I present to you... Fortune...

"Green"

Dog gone it! Too busy to do last week's Illustration Friday word... But this week... WOOHOO! Right on track.... GREEN! Hmmm, Green Grass....? How about a Green Four Leaf Clover...? Green with Envy..?
Nah....... Green... as in I'm turning Green at the thought of another bite of junk food!! heehee....

I Spy

I'm just having so much fun with these Illustration Friday words... I Spy with my eye...

Total

The Illustration Friday word this week is "Total". Well... every time I think of total, I think of the final result, complete, or entire...
Which led me to think of numbers and sums, the addition of, reaching the
final answer... The total sum of the number is~ my illustration for this week....

Wired

WOOHOO! I'm running on schedule in submitting to Illustration Friday for a change! Wired... when I think of the word, it made me think of myself... in the morning.... after several cups of coffee to get me moving and motivated... Kind of how I feel as well at night... trying to fall into that elusive concept~ sleep...............

Gravity

Geesh! Running late, again... I had good intentions.... Had trouble with the freaking face... Maybe with enough practice... One day it will come easier to me... *sigh... Hey... I can dream can't I?....
Gravity... I decided that I could best illustrate it by having a boy jumping, holding on to a parachute... It just made me think of a story that my husband told me from when he was a boy...

"Sprout"

Well doggone it! I missed last week's entry for Illustration Friday.... *Sigh..... Okay.. onward and upward it is... Sprout.. Hmmm, for some reason, all I could picture, was a tall, skinny kid... A kid who shot up in height, or ... sprouted if you will, faster than what the rest of their body did.. So anyway, this is my interpretation of the word "sprout".

Super Hero

Crap! I didn't get this done in time for Illustration Friday... Oh well, I still enjoyed creating this drawing... I believe that there is a super hero inside us all.... and that it never hurts to dream...