Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts

September 10, 2011

Boundaries

For Illustration Friday--"Boundaries"
For some reason, these drawings from my scientific illustration days kept popping in to my head.
I suppose it's about the skin-- the bag we come in...one of the ultimate boundaries :)

copyright 2002 E.R.Stanton wax pencil, gouache on pastel paper

copyright 2002 E.R.Stanton wax pencil, gouache on pastel paper





August 23, 2011

Work, work, work...

 Mister Frog looks like I often feel.  
 Drawpostdrawpostdrawpostdrawpostdrawpost....like the spin cycle on the washing machine...only maybe not so fast.
copyright 2011 E. R. Stanton- gouache, pen & ink on paper


August 18, 2011

More Henny

I'm loving the comments on Henny and her arms!  Yes, the possibilities are endless (and yes, Melissa, this is an idea I have for a book about just such things... :) )
So, unfortunately, methinks this is one of the first things Henny would have to do with her arms.  O poor Henny!
copyright 2011 E.R.Stanton

August 8, 2011

Not-MY-Art, or Ridiculously Sublime

(My very first post featuring not-MY-art)
Recently, I was in a store that gives the shopper that "third-world-experience" kind of feeling--when I saw her.  I think it was the banana tail feathers that first caught my eye. I picked her up. Her dangly legs clacked away as I turned her every which way, marveling at the visual feast in my hands. The fruit chicken: the ultimate in kitchen kitsch and definitely campy, cheap, and undoubtedly made in China.  I almost bought her but was afraid TheArchitect might toss the two of us out. She would undoubtedly NOT be his idea of a
must-have for the modern kitchen. Oh, but I was so sorely tempted!
 I draw some pretty strange things sometimes, but I'm not sure even I could have thought her up.  Really...a chicken with strawberries for legs--sitting on her big old tomato of a duff?!  So ridiculous...it's sublime!

























AND, it gets better! She has a friend: Ol' Lemon Legs.
(and I'm still laughing)

August 1, 2011

Some Scary Stuff: Rated PG

  A Wendigo is a creature out of Algonquin myth (Algonquins being North American native people) that is malevolent and said to be cannibalistic (move over, vampires and werewolves!).  When we were little, my dad used to tell us stories on hot summer nights--most often while gathered by a little fire we built on the lake shore--about the Wendigo, and how it would come gliding out of dark Canadian forests and abscond with unsuspecting campers. We were gleefully and utterly scared out of our wits. I have to say, however, that until I started reading up on it a little, I didn't know the cannibal part (thanks Dad, truly, for leaving that part out).  Anyway, this is one of those drawings that was in no way planned. Out it sprang!  I actually kind of scared myself a little with this one ;)  BUT I love to draw with graphite pencils and this little ditty is what my right brain conjured up for a Wendigo.  Also, can't decide if the creature-ette to its left is its buddy (do Wendigos have familiars?), or if it's going to eat him.
Drawing this made me think it might be fun to illustrate YA books.  I think a 12 year old could handle this.  What do you think?
Better keep your light on tonight!
copyright 2011 Elizabeth Rose Stanton, graphite on paper with a dollop of colored pencil

July 16, 2011

July 9, 2011

Illustration Friday - "Stay"

I was working on "cute," and it just got, well, too cute...
Sooo...cue the cat (and it's up to you, dear viewer, to decide exactly what the cat is looking at ;) ).
Regardless, and more to the point:  good dog...stay.

copyright 2011 Elizabeth Rose Stanton

July 1, 2011

Hold Your Horses!

I'm realizing how much fun it is to do quick sketches in ink. I usually sketch in pencil and then, if I like the direction it's going in, I start going over it in pen.  I've decided to be wild and crazy and not do that any more for a while...
Here's a little something that popped out last night...
copyright 2011 Elizabeth Rose Stanton

June 26, 2011

Character Development

Some people expressed an interest in my picture book...so here is the development of the main character--cleverly, and oh-so-originally (for now) named, "The Thing."  He's basically a big, sleepy, bunny-like, well... Thing.  My vision of him from the beginning hasn't changed much--(maybe longer legs and slightly different proportions).  It seems I draw them pretty much the way they end up right out of the chute, so to speak.
(click to enlarge)
pen & ink, wax pencil

June 4, 2011

Illustration Friday - "Shadow"

Am posting a concept sketch from a page of a picture book I am working on, since there's a little bit of shadow drama going on.  The story is in verse, and deals with the classic "there's something-under-the-bed" dilemma that all kids face at one time or another [I still worry about it sometimes ;) ]. The Thing has just lumbered out from under the bed, at the brave insistence of the little hero of the story... Hopefully the book will eventually be published, so you can find out what happens next :)
 Wish I had time for a new creation for the topic, but what with the in-laws coming, two birthdays, and two graduations this week (plus construction going on...)--well...this will have to do for now.

copyright 2011 Elizabeth Rose Stanton



Music Challenge :)

I'm so flattered to have won. Thank you to Marjorie and her "murder" of editors ;) at Underneath the Juniper Tree!
http://underneaththejunipertree.blogspot.com/2011/06/music-challenge-winner.html

copyright 2011 Elizabeth Rose Stanton