Illustration Friday:

For this week’s topic, I played a little bit with an old drawing (green balloon)… as for me, I prefer the old ones… it happens.

I am always impressed to see how balloons can empower under five little people’s imagination.

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Draft here

Little sketch to say that:

For the past week, I kept everybody busy, spreading out milky lotion on red spots !!!

On one hand, it was really painful, on the other hand,I drew lots of attention on my little person, I kind of got use to it…

I might find it hard to go back to normal life…

At least, the pencil colour is a match for the wallpaper!!!

Draft here

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She is writing one line from left to right and the next one from right to left…

French, Hebrew, French, Hebrew, French, Hebrew…

In her bed room library, she’s got books which “speak” like mum and books which “speak” like dad…

When a friend randomly grabs a book on the shelves, she is warning him by screaming in his ears: “be careful this book speaks like mum!” as if French written books were burning fingers.

Her dad is the one who speak Hebrew “like everybody else”.

Her mum is the only one in her surrounding to speak the language of Voltaire and Noddy (best known as “Oui Oui” in the French translation). It’s a tiring language sometimes… Words do not come so easily to mind.

However, she has noticed that to let inadvertently a few French words slip out her mouth in polite society, might, on occasion, draw specific attention on her. Which is not unpleasant.

She’s also got a long term project: to learn to speak like
Zeeve … Californian language.

For the time being, pretending writing is quite rich enough experience. She can still mix all sort of hand writing. All she needs is a convincing posture, and a polysemous personal translation for her public.

Therefore, she sat down to practice her writing skill, sitting in the blue grass in the moon light…

Draft here

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I have, in preparation, a little series of baby fairies with plastic boots.

Those fairies came across as a mix of recent posts “fairy Cori” and the current experience of Noame (three and a half year old) who barely want to take her pink plastic boots off to go to sleep…

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Draft here.

Coralie is a seven years old girl. She presents herself through the site of her association Les amis de Coralie (syndrome de Di George) she created with her parents.

She wanted an image which features everything she particularly likes, such as: ponies, balloons, candies, herself wearing a “frou frou” (flounces?) dress, a large sun, a hamster, a rainbow and a snail…

I Initially wondered how to put all this in one single image and still like the image. This is the result: (click on the image to enlarge it)

What matters most is that Coralie and her family like it and manage to modulate it according to their needs (badge, poster, greeting card) within the association.

Here is an other part of this illustration, which I put in an other context … just for the sake of pointing out a personal habit or characteristic of this snail.

I have got one: he keeps his glasses into his shell.

Did you know that snail’s eyes are easily drying out. He needs three drops of rain water a day, for taking care of his contact lenses…

All the same, in the past, in situation of very hot weather, he had reluctantly agreed to put his glasses on his antenna.

The snail is clothes conscious.

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Junior snail will have a well oriented window on his shell when he will be a young adult …

Until then, everybody enjoys the warmth of the family shell!

Introductions are done…

They are part of an illustration for a little girl named Coralie, to be posted soon…

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