My Illustration Friday attempt for "farm".
After realising (when I was young) that neither my parents nor Santa were ever going to give in and get me a horse, my next tactic was to ask for a cow. I may not have been able to trot along on top of a cow, but I had a vision of me walking through the neighbourhood lazily chatting away to my cow, easily leading her by a rope as she willingly followed chewing on a straw of hay. How could Mum say no to a cow? It could keep the lawns nice and tidy and give us milk, it was a perfect plan, (despite having nowhere to keep it).
When I asked Mum she laughed and told me “You couldn’t keep a cow, they have to be milked before dawn every morning”
I’ve always enjoyed sleeping in you see, it’s a bit of a joke for my family.
She continued, “By the time you got out of bed the poor cow would have an udder so full of milk it would probably burst!”
I never got a cow… or a sheep (which was the next thing I asked for).
So this illo is my interpretation of a farm run by me; tidy lawns, neglected cows.
30 comments:
oh my, this made me smile! how fun, i love your interpretation!
a beautiful illo!
oh la la !!! i love this, above all your flying cows !!!
this is delightful!
very cute! i wish i could have a cow, pony, pigs, but it would be too much work for me. city life fits me just fine :)
HE ! HE!! Wicked!! Lovely illo@
wonderful, very magical...
love your works!
what a lovely world.. place where semi-bloated cows are able to float. hehe. this a very well done illustration i love it. i want a shirt with this on both sides.
and the story to go along with it is just great. makes for a trully lovely experience.
So loved your idea! It's a really beautiful illo!
ooh, this illustration and the story makes me soooo happy!
Wonderful illo and story! Made me smile from ear to ear :)
Just georgous colors and lines. My eye kept moving around and around to all of the detail and the wrapping of the barn and fields. Love it!
hehe... lovely story :)
and the illo! i wish i could peel it off the screen and put it on my wall!
your story is so cute. I love your illo, and the colors are so rich, and full of life, like a farm would be. Great work!
Wonderful!! this is so sweet and tender...
HAha, funny. :) I love the painted sky and the texture!
Hee hee! So light and whimsical :)
This is a great story Flossy! And the illustration is wonderful. The cows are so funny and I love the curved perspective of the landscape and the barn. The colour pallette you chose is clear and fresh, just like the farm. Excellent work!
Great concept! Love it!
poor cows :D I love the story and your picture is just great!
Great story. You're quite the writer, too! I love the concept here, and it's a fantastic composition as well. I must know, what grade of watercolor paper do you use and also what type of pen for the outlines?
very nice cows. you are talented! :)
thank-you everyone, your comments fill me with glee and make the last part of a long week something to look forward to.
Sandra, I tried to leave a comment on your hilarious illo, but I'm having trouble posting comments on any blogger posts that are using the new template (not just yours, all blogs using the new template) is anyone else having this same problem?
Hi Amy, I use Arches watercolour paper, it's the medium texture and 300 gsm. Not sure if it's hard or cold pressed or pressed at all for that matter. I've started using a pacer pencil for my outlines, I was findind the black pen a bit too limiting (and I could find anywhere in my town that sells a pigma micron in brown). Normal pencils kept going blunt, so the pacer pencil is making me very happy.
Excellent! Love your wit and your obvious expertise! Great illo as usual :)
Hey Flossy - I'm also having problems commenting on regular blogger pages now...if only I had known this issue before upgrading. Sigh.
Anyways, I did find one way to get around it. When leaving a comment, choose identity "other" rather than signing in with "blogger". This way you can still link back to your own blog and leave a comment without getting the error window pop up. I think the blogger people are working on this, unfortunately I cannot revert my template. :(
Thanks for posting your issues. I'm going to post on my own blog about this problem.
I stumbled across your blog and wanted to say that I love this story. Your artwork is wonderful!! Thanks for sharing!
i want this farm. period.
love the beautiful bright colours and the udderly lovely and peaceful cows (ok, someone had to say it!) great illo and story. your composition both written and visual are impeccable!
This is a gorgeous little illo! My daughter was sitting on my knee when She saw it and said "Look at those udders!!!"
I didn't even know she knew what an udder was...
I love it.
I missed this last week, but I'm glad I found it this week...it's another wonderful flight of flossy-p fancy! I love the curve of the farm and those poor cows floating away on their bloated udders. Your story reminded me of my son wanting a pig when he was a child. I told him that we couldn't have farm animals in an apartment, so he came up with the brilliant idea of getting a pig for my mother as a birthday gift, because she had a yard. We all got a laugh out of it, even if he never did get that pig:>
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