Illustration Friday - Freeze

 

Ok, so I'm cutting it really fine this week! This is a bit of a stretch too in terms of the theme but the first thing I thought of when I saw the theme "FREEZE" was my favourite party game we used to play as kids called "Musical Statues". I looked it up and apparently it's only really played in Australia and Finland, so for those who haven't ever played it's time to drag out your old 80's tape deck! The play button was pressed and you'd go crazy dancing and then when the music stopped you had to freeze. If you moved, you were out and the last one standing was the winner. Smart kids soon realised that if you didn't really move much it was easy to freeze.But then those who found crazy dancing too tempting soon found themselves wobbling around, standing on one leg and trying to stay frozen. I think the illustration probably doesn't protray this properly but it still brought back fun memories.

Illustration Friday - Bounce

 

Ok, so no one's going to believe me but I haven't seen any of the Olympics. Obviously though it's floating around in my subconcious somewhere!

Illustration Friday - Lonely

I live in an indigenous community in remote Australia in the middle of the desert. Yesterday morning we left this place we call home on a three week holiday. Our closest airport is a four hour drive on a dirt track. To pass the time, it's five year old Jonah's job to look out for camels. They have a tendency to creep up on you and in a panic they often run in front of the car trying to get out of the way! I'm not sure if this is the case with all camels but these ones travel in packs, big family groups but when you do see one on it's own, the camel's naturally sad looking face looks even sadder than usual and very very LONELY. After making the long drive yesterday and with camels and loneliness on my mind and also two year old Hugo sleeping with his head heavy my lap, I sketched this on the aeroplane tray table, flying out of the desert and in the direction of friends and family in the big city.

Illustration Friday - Carry

Illustration Friday - Lost

After thinking a bit more about last weeks illustration "SUSPEND", I decided that Dog must of done something real bad to make Cat SUSPEND him up in a tree with her SUSPENDer belt (This is my story anyway...I love how people read different things into the same piece of work). So this week the game is back on and Dog is looking for payback!

The other thing is that the dog character I draw often is based on Mimi, the Jack Russell my sister had when we were kids. Mimi was a girl and somehow without realising it, along the way this character has become male (don't ask me how that happened...I swear it was an accident). Now I face the conundrum of renaming the character, as "Mimi" is possibly an inappropriate name for a boy dog. So for now they are "Cat" and "Dog".

Illustration Friday - Suspend

After a weekend catching up with old friends and doing the Ayers Rock walk I thought a snap of the weekend could be included in this weeks Illustration Friday theme "Suspend".

Illustration Friday - Refresh

I have to note that the background for this image is taken from a photograph of a mosaic I worked on in Redfern last year with kids from the local school - slightly manic but lots of fun..refreshing!