Monsters? SITAR

After more than a month away,  I am back for Sunday in the Art Room.  Today I am sharing art that is not my work.  My niece's husband has written at least two children's books.  My offering for today is a bit of art from his second book. "There Are No Monster's Under My Bed"  

The illustrations that Kevin has created are delightfully whimsical.   I love the "monsters" in the book best of all, so I am sharing a couple of photos.  These are only cropped portions of the illustrations, but you will easily get the feel for his illustration style. 

 First is two monsters running. 

I love the cape flying along behind the frog. And those lips on the purple monster are so much fun. 

The second photo I am sharing is that purple monster from a front view. 

I think I would have been frightened of this one as a child also. 

The story explains how the child realizes that the monsters are just 

ordinary things that we see differently in dark rooms. 

If you would like to get this book for someone you love, you can find it on Amazon

There Are No Monsters Under My Bed

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A 36 Year Old Photo

Back in 1990,  when I was a bit younger than I am now,  a dear friend and I went on a trip to Pigeon Forge Tennessee.  The town was packed. This wasn't a surprise to us and we were all there for the Opening of Dollywood's 4th year.  This year they were adding a carousel. In grand fashion, there was a parade through the main street of the town.  The Grand Marshall was riding on a Lion from the carousel. 

I had my camera with a zoom lens and was chasing along taking photos.  Here is a photo that I took that year with my good old Pentax film camera.  

Yes, of course the Grand Marshall for the parade was none other than Dolly Parton. 

As she was going by,  I yelled out "Hey, Dolly!  I never saw a fox riding on a lion before." 

She laughed delightedly and said "I never thought of it that way!"

Rest in Peace, dear lady.

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Altered Book Pages

I have been missing on here for a while. These days I have a lot less time and energy for creating because I am caring for my Mom.  She is in the later stages of dementia.  That's life and we carry on. 

However,  this week I took a little time to create a two page spread in one of my altered books and decided to share these pages with you.  The first page was created starting with a "roll-off" sheet.  Let me explain.  

When you are printing with a gel plate, you use a brayer to roll out the paint. Then to clean off the brayer, you "roll off" the remaining paint on scrap paper.  I am actually using an old manual from a leadership class as paper for this process.  So here is that page:

To fill in the areas around the roll off,  I used some of my painted papers and a couple of brush markers. 

For the facing page, I used the above as inspiration and created a similar image using mostly collage and some brush markers. For the collage, I used painted papers and a few pieces from an old magazine page.

They are different yet similar and I like them both.  

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Little Me

I was going through some old photos on my phone and found an early photo of me. My grandfather had stood me on the hood of a car holding my Easter basket.  I appear to be roughly 4 years old, but I could be off a year either way. 

My at those fat little legs! They thinned out as I grew.  I was a skinny child in school. 

Anyway,  I decided to put this into the AI "remix" on my phone and make a watercolor

type image of it, just for fun. 

I have to laugh at the AI "goof" of putting flowers growing inside the car. 

I still think it came out as a lovely image. 

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