Rowing in the moonlight

It has been misty around here. Fog lying on our lake in front of our house, lazily till noon. Everyone has left, including most birds, leaving the waters like one glass sheet reflecting the beautiful fall leaves. 

I imagine if I wasn't raising little ones right now, I'd be rowing on that gorgeous lake,  much like these vintage fellas.

(Painted in ink, and the water waves was made by squishing plastic wrap in the wet ink till it is dry. It was the stripes and strong lines I was after, more that details of the face. The way the oars' lines contrast with the shadow lines and for fun, the lines of their vintage suits.) 

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Hope you have a peaceful day 

White - Silent (Illustration Friday)

  
                                     THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
                                             And busily all the night
                                      Had been heaping field and highway
                                          With a silence deep and white.
                                                          James Russell Lowell 


This morning we were greeted with a heavy blizzard, erasing horizon painting sky and earth white


This weeks topic on illustration Friday is silent. Just like the land is silent this morning, hushed with snow, so my mind gets hushed in peace when I'm surrounded with silence. 

Being alone - even just for a moment, restores my spirit. Being silent, sitting surrounded by silence - that was the inspiration for the above painting.


Painted in oil and using a scrap of candy wrapper for the chair, her soul is being restored in white silence

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  ~William Penn

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.  ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba
 
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find a moment of refreshing silence this morning

Wilme

Stripes - Illustration Friday

canon ball

This series was my first ever sale, so it holds a very special place in my heart. 

I remember the time so clearly, it was when my second baby cried day and night and I was frazzled and in tears myself most days. 

I needed a boost, a little light, a gift from above. So on a whim I checked my etsy sight which I haven't visited in months. And there I found an email from Warner Brothers, wanting to use these paintings on an upcoming TV series. I couldn't believe it! My little paintings I created at my kitchen table - on TV! 

So when I saw the theme was stripes this week on illustration Friday, all I could think of was my stripey divers, my first and most exciting sale yet - thanks to God!

Illustration Friday - scary

These lil' guys might not look scary, but trust me - if you are alone at night walking through a big dark forest, their sound is the last sound you want to hear ...SCARY!

Knitting art - Illustration Friday - Hibernation

Tucked under a lovingly made quilt, sipping tea and crocheting the evening away  - that is my kind of winter hibernation

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Illustrations Friday - Boundaries

Boundaries are a good thing, especially if those boundaries keep in water and I can go for a refreshing swim :)

Illustration Friday - Swell

"How are you today Wilme?"

"Oh boy, I feel SWELL! So swell, I feel like doing back flips all day long"

For this illustration I used watercolours, paper lace and embroidery thread.