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My entry for Illustration Friday's "Hibernate". This is a stonefly imitation, of the larval stage of the insect, sort of a hibernation. The stonefly larva lives underwater in a stream before climbing out and sprouting it's wings. Flyfishermen try flies to imitate insects that trout like to eat in hopes of catching fish.
My entry for Illustration Friday's "Ferocious". More later!
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Nothing like a cup of espresso to get the heart racing!
My usual...draw the lines and shapes in Freehand, paint some textures, merge in Photoshop.
Hope you like it.
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My entry for IF's "transportation" topic.
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This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "Beneath" topic.
Click image for a larger view. My entry for Illustration Friday's "caged".
Click image for a bigger view. This is my entry for illustration Friday's "propogate" topic. The dictionary listed "dispel" as a synonym. Light dispels darkness. There you go.
Your thoughts?
Apologies lately, I haven't had the time to get around to too many other blogs.
Click image for a larger view. This is my entry for IF's "focused" topic. Drew the lines in Freehand, painted a real background, merged in Photoshop.
These are my father's eye glasses, something I've saved to remember him by.
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This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "Wilderness" topic. Drew the lines and shapes in Freehand, painted a real background, assimilated in Photoshop.
This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "Renewal" topic. Why a starfish? Actually is a "sea star". Sea stars renew themselves if they lose a leg, or are torn into pieces. They can regenerate. Fisherman used to hate sea stars and would tear them into two pieces to try and kill them...when really they were doubling the number of sea stars.
Have been doing IF topics for a while...and hope to get back into it.
Per my usual, I drew the lines and shapes in Freehand, painted a background and combined in Photoshop.
Love to hear your thoughts!
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Here is my avocado to go along with the eggplant. I changed the green bits in the eggplant to tie in with the greens of the avocado to make them more of a matched set. Still may try more with the background.
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Lately I've been craving eggplant a lot! I think the background needs a bit more something, but wanted to get this done tonight. A matching avocado illustration is coming soon.
Have a wafflemaker? Try my patented recipe...
Slice raw eggplant into half inch rounds. Dip in beaten egg. Roll in parmesean cheese. Place into a well-oiled wafflemaker and close. No need to press down on the lid, it will settle down as the eggplant cooks. Remove when cheese is crispy and eggplant is tender. Even if you think you don't like eggplant...this is wickedly delicious and looks super cool. Feel free to add seasonings like herbs to the parm. Or sprinkle the eggplant with garlic powder first.
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This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "cracked" topic. Perhaps a little dark, but it ain't all sunshine, flowers and butterflys all the time now is it?
What do you do when your hopes and dreams don't seem to have worked out?
Per my usual M.O. created the lines in Freehand, painted a real background with paint and paper, and brought them together in Photoshop!
Any regular IFer's...feel free to find me on Facebook too. Link on the sidebar.
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This is my entry for IF's "flawed" topic. Created today. Took two images of an artichoke, printed on vellum, painted the front and back of vellum, layering paint. Then tore one into vertical strips and one into horizontal strips and wove them together, for a very imperfect, flawed result, which I like. This is about 9 x 12 inches.
What do you think?
Scott
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This is my entry for IF's "pale" topic. Inside the box was a large pale seed...
See last week's late entry "contained". Pretty soon the box and hand illustrations will get woven into a bigger story...I hope.
Kind regards to all who stop by.
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My entry for IF's "contained" topic. Perhaps next time we'll see what's contained in the box!
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This is my entry for IF's "opinion" topic. I've done few illustrations with this little box. I think I'll rework them into some sort of cohesive story.
So what's your opinion on what's in the box?
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This is my entry for IF's "pretend" topic. Done today.
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This is my entry for IF's "save" topic. Save the whales!!!
Some of you saw a few whale photos on a different blog last week. Well, the FULL SET of Baja pictures are here:
scottcuzzo.com/baja
I think you will be amazed.
Whales were nearly brought to extinction. By the 1970s, many whale populations were severely diminished due to whaling. Blues had been decimated to about 1% of their original population! They are making a good comeback, but are still endangered.
In my hand I'm holding a little baby gray whale. Actually, they are about 15 feet long when they are born in the lagoons in Mexico! If you haven't seen my pictures, go there NOW! Gray whales have made an excellent comeback. And were, in fact, removed from the endangered species list! Yea! Gray whales were once killed in great numbers too. Gray whales were called "devilfish" as they would fight back and try to attack the fishing boats that were trying to kill them. NOW gray whales may come up to a boat and seek interaction from humans in the boats in the Baja. Many of these whales are old enough to remember times when they were attacked by humans, and now they REACH OUT. I hope you see my photos of this, as it was an amazing experience.
While things are rarely black and white, there are still cultures that place a high value on killing whales, like Japan.
If you have the chance to go whale watching, let me encourage you to follow through! Let me know if you have questions about whales!
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This is my entry for IF's "fierce" topic. Dolphins, cute as they are, can actually be quite fierce! Sharks are afraid of dolphins!
Haven't done an illustration for a while. Been busy.
Created this for IF today. I think I could have chosen a better angle perhaps, but it's done, and I'm posting it.
Was on the ocean yesterday and saw three different kinds of dolphin: common dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin, and Risso's dolphins. Plus I saw four humpback whales, and scads of sea lions.
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Created this a.m. for Illustration Friday's "Sour" topic. I draw my lines in Freehand, bring them into Photoshop, add color, then paint and scan a background, which gets blended in. I try hard to create effective color schemes, using a special technique in Photoshop.
Have a great 4th of July to Americans.
I'm going looking for whales today, tomorrow too. Can't wait for the blue whales to show up for the summer!
Scott
Inspired by this blog entry. TTV is short for "through the viewfinder".
A recent dolphin photo I took.
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A little something different. I'd like to know what you think. A few hours work. Drew about 12 different bird poses in Freehand. Painted a background. Used a tree photo to extract my tree image and combined in Photoshop.
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This is my entry for IF's "enough" topic. Pretty vague term. Most people can not get enough of dolphin sightings. I'm one. Smart, social, amazing creatures. I am fortunate to get to see them all the time. This is meant to be a companion piece to last weeks illustration.
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This is my entry for IF's "wise" topic. All done today, Saturday, about 5 or 6 hours of steady work. Drew my lines in Freehand, collaged and painted the background and assembled and colored in Photoshop. The collage includes text about wisdom and the value of being wise. And books often contain great wisdom!
I've missed participating in IF the last few months and hope will try to be more regular.
Thanks to those of you who "followed up with me"!
Yes.... I can tell that fly is sound asleep! : )
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