woods // I was drawing this little one today, for the cover of a mixed cd I made for my sister (I'm driving to Montreal to see her this weekend; well, delivering Barbie boots to my niece is the 'official' explanation), when I checked the Illustration Friday site and saw it was looking for 'monsters' ...
People are always telling me that my work is too dark. So I've put up this sunnier story, but even it has a shadow, as its original publisher – a fine Atlantic Canadian literary magazine called the Gaspereau Review – is no longer in business. ---------------- It was a simple enough thing and that thing was simply this: Edmund Kelley was a gentleman. Of course his mom called him her 'little gentleman', as in 'Oh Edmund, you are my perfect little gentleman,' which did seem to hold to a certain logic that these type of things often follow, considering her affection for him and the fact that he was, after all, only ten years old. Still, Edmund himself was not particularly fond of the diminutive aspect of that title. Gentleman was enough; gentleman summed up the whole thing rather nicely, thank you. He was definitely a more refined version of your average child. He lived in a state of perpetual Sunday m
I really like your style - it's very decorative, allthough it's simple too. I can understand the little one in the window is afraid, indeed.
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This is my favorite, really great and fresh :)
ReplyDeleteLove this one. :-)
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