Illustration friday night "what are you afraid of?"

Winged things
Beating rhythms of discontent
Within my head
Painfully pecking
A whole
Piece of mind
Fearfully flapping
Fruitless
Barren thoughts
Frantic but static.

The Emperor's new clothes

Illustration Friday's topic this week is "suit"
As you can see , I've illustrated the Emperor in his birthday suit, wondering if his new clothes make his bum look big, it's not just us girls that worry about big bums you know.
I started this piece in watercolour and finished it in photoshop, mainly putting in a background colour.

TED Talks: spreading ideas

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
This particular Ted talk is about how the education system is
killing creativity. Sir Ken Robinson is highly entertaining, a natural comedian with a very important point.

Delightful Delphiniums

This is the first time I've grown delphiniums, and I'm delighted with them. The little tadpole buds totaly animate them for me.

Salvador Dali, the leading man, on Whats My Line

I found this via bifsniff and loved it.

I'm not a huge fan of Salvador Dali's work, most of it creeps me out especially the ones with the long stretched skinny legs, but the man himself is a true work of art with a brilliant sense of humor!
I found some great quotes of his here
A few examples:
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."
"There's only one difference between a mad man and me. I am not mad"
" There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction"
"Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing unfortunately you cant help being"
And my favourite
"Each morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali"

Learning to negotiate the feeder.

Beautiful Baby Blue Tits

I'm having great fun watching the antics of these little beauties.
They sit around like fluffy pom-poms,well soggy pom-poms today with the rain, pip squeaking at each other until a parent flies in and then they frantically flutter their wings and demand loudly "ME,ME,FEED ME"


I really feel sorry for the parents, it's non stop for them.
The babies are so fluffy and plump, and here's poor Mom looking very bedraggled in the rain.