IF: drifting

SHEEP SLEEP (or Counting Peeps)

Sheila Sheepington-Fleecewater,
found it hard to sleep well.

So she sipped a bit of sweet water, 
while she counted people.

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The Illustration Friday theme lends itself to quite a few images this week. However, what immediately comes to my mind is the trouble “drifting” off to sleep insomnia often gives me, as my alter-ego Sheila demonstrates above. (Plus, I wanted another excuse to draw sheep shoes.)

unfold

If her clothes hadn’t ended up unfolded, severely stretched out and reeking of wet dog, Sheila Sheepington-Fleecewater might have had less of a problem with the wolf borrowing them.

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One would use this saying to describe a person or thing appearing to be good but is actually, in fact, bad. There seems to be a few different ideas about it’s origin, but here is what Wikipedia has to say about it.

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “unfold”. 

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craving

Sometimes you feel like a nut…

adapt

cracked

Murgatroyd was just your average, run-of-the-mill Easter bunny, until that fateful day he hopped into Bob’s Music Center, picked up his very first axe and felt the pure, raw, egg-cracking power of the Flying V.

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I was looking for some excuse to post M-Royd again and although it’s a bit of a stretch I found one with this week’s Illustration Friday theme “cracked.” (sigh) I love it when a plan comes together.

contagious

 

I might not be the brightest kid

I know I’m not courageous

but that awful bird and swine thing,

is really quite contagious

I think I might have caught it,

so I need to ask some things.

Will my nose get long and piglike,

and my shoulders sprout out wings?

I guess I shouldn’t worry,

and make a big tadoo,

because all that would happen

the same day that swine flu.

WHEN SWINE FLU

I might not be the brightest kid,
I know I’m not courageous,
but that awful bird and swine thing,
is really quite contagious!

I think I might have caught it,
so I need to ask some things.
Will my nose become all piglike,
and my shoulders sprout out wings?

I guess I shouldn’t worry,
and make a big to-do,
because those things would happen,
the same day that “swine flu”.

– Linda Silvestri

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This week’s Illustration Friday prompt is (oddly (0;) “Contagious.”

parade

Bertram Bunnyweather began to realize, his earlier aching bunions had actually been an omen of the Carrot Festival parade being rained on. That, or perhaps the need to purchase some Dr. Scholl’s foot care products.

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The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Parade”.

hierarchy

In the hierarchical structure of this family, guess who comes out on top.

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The “Illustration Friday” theme this week is “heirarchy.

theater

THE SINGER

She sings for the crowd,
and feels very proud
of a voice that can shatter glass.

But rather than cheers,
the crowd plugs their ears,
she sounds like she’s full of hot gas.

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The Illustration Friday theme this week is “Theater” and I had big plans for it. But as luck would have it, once again the tempest fugit-ed and… sigh… you know… another repost.

fleeting

GRAMPA NED BUNNY

“It’s really quite scary,
how terribly hairy,
I’ve gotten.” said dear grampa Ned

“Hair sprouts from my nose,
from my ear grows and grows.
Too bad there is none on my head!”                                       

                      – Linda Silvestri

Ahhh! Youth is so fleeting, is it not?

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This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “Fleeting” and I’m thinking my take on it is very much colored by the fact that my birthday is right around the corner… (sigh.)

Happy Easter!

Last minute rush to wish you a very Merry Egg & Bunny Day!!

poise, thy name is Ignatz

ODE TO IGNATZ (Iggy)

With snowy white fur,
and a deafening purr,
her toes are like a pink pearl erasers.

My Ignatz is shy,
but you cannot deny,
she’s the great lizard hunter and chaser.

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This kitty-ballerina image came to mind a last year while staring at my kitty, Iggy’s feets. I studied admiringly, her pristeen white fur and pink toes, bringing to mind the white tights and pink shoes of a prima ballerina. That along with an almost preternatural grace she’s been known to exhibit, while padding, almost toe dancing across the fireplace mantle. She lithely slinks along this 3 inch wide path, past tons of chachkis and photos, with nary an item being knocked over.

The girl’s got mad grace-skills!

Of course, when I have to rescue a terrified, de-tailed lizard from under our bed, one of many she proudly trots into the house, the ballerina image dissipates rapidly. –Sigh.

Click to get better look at Iggy’s feets!

Hey! This might be my very first post to Illustration Friday… on Friday!!!! WeeEeeeEEE! Ok, ok, I know, it’s because this is a repost. But I think you’ll agree it’s a good fit for “Poise” and I did punch up the rhyme and reworded the whole thing a bit. That counts, right?

subtract

SCHOOL OF FISH

Subtraction seems sappy to Sally, so she sends some silliness soaring toward the substitute.

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This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “subtract.”

legendary

BUNNY OF THE DANCE!

At last his dream had come true. Many years of little or no sleep, back-breaking practice… and,  well… blackmail, had won Bunny O’Brien the coveted, legendary title, “Lord of the Dance.”

intricate

BODY OF EVIDENCE

Maybe it’s because I just finished reading the graphic novel “Watchmen” (in anticipation of the movie.) It could be because of it’s very dark, very intricate and layered story. Or maybe I’m just in a weird mood. All I know is, while pondering this week’s IF word, intricate, the above illustration popped into my head.  I created this image years ago for a cover story in the Ventura County Reporter. The story was titled “Body of Evidence, In the struggle for a non-toxic environment, woman may have the most at stake.”

Although not terribly intricate, the story was not exactly light reading either. So this is what I came up with.

I know, it’s a bit of a departure from the usual idioms, bunnies, and kitty antics you’ll usually find scattered across my wee bit of space on the world wide web, but hey, I’m feeling all dark and intricate tonight.

Here, maybe this will detox you from all the uncharacteristic seriousness. Srsly!