I made this card real quick like in Photoshop for a friend who is turning 50 today! I used one of my 'neighbors' from my IF entry, posted below. I'm trying to be more loose with my art and doing quickie stuff like this is helpful. I know I don't want to spend too much time on the design, so it's more free and loose. (I think) Oh, and I did hear that 50 is the new 30!
This week's theme for Illustration Friday is Neighbor and here's my entry. I did this in Photoshop and probably spent too much time on it, when I should have been doing other things, but I learned a lot along the way, so it was worth the time. I had a couple of those 'a ha!' moments when you figure something out, which are quite fun to have! I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. I live in a neighborhood where I know a lot of my neighbors and are friends with quite a few of them, but I know many urban neighborhoods aren't like that and people just stay in their houses and never even say hello to the people around them. To me, that's so sad.
I finished this new fine art piece a couple of days ago. I'm calling it 'rainforest' and its a 24" x 36" mixed media on paper. It's collage with decorative paper and acrylic paint. There's a little bit of pen drawing in there as well. It's a pretty big piece and took awhile to complete, but I love working on a larger scale sometimes, it nice to have some open spaces, so the elements can breathe. For anyone who might be interested, it's available at www.artquest.com along with a couple of other pieces of mine. Just go to Search for Art - Artist List and look under the S's for my name.
When I saw the theme of this week's Illustration Friday challenge - 'Remember', I thought of all the things I had to remember to do! I'm big on making lists, using post it notes and writing appts on my calendar, so this is what I came up with. I made all the background elements and sketched the face, then scanned it all in and finished it in Photoshop. Now to get back to all those things on my list!
