IF - Unbalanced

The topic for this week's Illustration Friday is "Unbalanced"

The Astonishing Bradley's act became somewhat less than astonishing when he became unbalanced.

He was so unbalanced that he dropped his checkbook, which was also.....unbalanced.

IF - Fast

Illustration Friday's them for this week is "Fast"
This reflects the old adage that you don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the other guy.

It may be that the bear has just completed a fast, so our hikers should strive to be really fast.

IF - Flying

I haven't done Illustration Friday for quite a while. The theme for this week is "Flying".

The cassowary is a nervous flier. The kiwi is excited. The penguin is unimpressed. The ostrich is having a great time. The emu is looking for Rod Hull. And who knows what the takahē is thinking.

IF - Time

This week's Illustration Friday theme is "Time".

IF - Flawed

Great-Aunt Millie's handmade birthday present was ......flawed.

IF - Pale

Urd is a Tunneler, a member of a society that has for generations lived and worked in the vast underground tunnels and sewers under the Great City. On the extremely rare occasion that a tunneler visits the surface they are identified by their pale skin and unique odor. Here he is working with his Grandfather maintaining the subterranean structures so necessary to the City.

IF - Balloon

Illustration Fridays topic this week is "balloon". I wasn't going to do a picture. But then I learned that a friend had passed away on Monday after fighting lung cancer and this came into my head. Betty was a good friend of my wife's family. My kids grew up calling her "Grandma Betty". We will miss her, but like the balloon, I know she was going up.

IF -Opinion

This week's Illustration Friday topic is opinion. This reminds me of when I was much younger and would get into huge arguments about the stupidest things. There are few things more insipid than two 19 year old guys arguing about who's better; Elvis Costello or Lynyrd Skynyrd. I would never indulge in such an argument now. Even though I was right.

IF - Repair

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "repair". I thought of all those character shaped holes in Tex Avery Cartoons. Someone had to fix them. I'm experimenting with my new fluid acrylic paints. I was trying to use them with a watercolor technique. They don't quite work that way. They are good for building up glazes, but they're hard to fix if you mess up.

IF - Late

This weeks Illustration Friday's topic is "Late". I went back to inking with a brush for this one. The gray is ink wash rather than watercolor. It has a smoother look (except where I drybrushed) but is very unforgiving.

IF - Packed

My piece for this week's Illustration Friday.
I'm trying to loosen up my pen work. There's a lot of scribbling going on in the dark areas.

IF Island

I haven't done any color pieces lately. I decided to use this weeks IF topic to take another stab at watercolor over pen and ink.

IF - Clutter

The Illustration Friday topic this week is "clutter". There are times when I have difficulty arriving at an image to draw. There's a lot of imagery cluttering up my head and I sometimes have a hard time finding a subject to commit to for a finished piece.

IF - memories

This week's theme for Illustration Friday is memories. This picture is based on my great grandmother who lived to be 102. She lost a great deal of of her memories by the end of her life but she is still in mine. This is her second appearance in one of my pictures.

IF - Detach

My first drawing for illustrationfriday.com. The theme this week is "detach". Pen and Ink with lamp black watercolor wash and drybrush.