Category: Drawings
Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil and Ink on Paper, Osaka Forever Series
Inspirations: Japanese fashion, Americamura, riding the bull at Saddleranch, Monk & Pantone Rubine Red. 
Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil in a Moleskine Journal
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil on Paper
Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil on Paper
This week's Illustration Friday challenge was to illustrate the topic LATE. There is a contemporary cafe in Rome with a full wall of sculptures positioned behind the tables for ambiance. I'm sure this is nothing special to Romans, but of course for someone from LA, where things are mostly all modern, stunning details like this conjure up a dreamy sense of history. I wanted this composition to feel as if it was pulled from an ancient Roman night, or better yet, maybe a dream involving Michelangelo.
So for the topic LATE, I thought of dozing Roman sculptures under a big Italian moon.
So for the topic LATE, I thought of dozing Roman sculptures under a big Italian moon.
Graphite on Paper
Inspirations: Friday! + space suits and robot drawings
On-the-go quick sketch, graphite on paper
Inspirations: kimonos, maple leaves & memories of Kyoto in the fall, Polynesian tattoos, sitting in the sun
Well, it's been a bit longer than I like to go without posting...so I decided to post one of my sketches. It illustrates the Illustration Friday topic "BABY" from a couple weeks back. The baby in utero is visible to the outside world through a window, similar to a submarine window, or a space bubble on an astronaut's head. Keeping with the space theme, baby and mother stand outside a baby pod--an incubator of sorts that is a cute abode and a birthing station that doubles as a rocket. This image was inspired by the birth of beautiful baby Olive Radford!
Coming up next: I have a few projects in the works currently...a couple magazine illustrations, and a painting that will be the start of a new series I'm working on that will feature abstracted far away locations.
I finally got around to coloring this image that was drawn to illustrate the theme "primitive" for Illustration Friday. -G
Illustration Friday: Primitive
Sketch on paper for now...this week has been too crazy, but the finished colored illustration is coming soon!
"The Clumsy Ninja" illustrates the concept FAIL, from Illustration Friday.
Colored Pencil on Paper, 8.5" x 12"
This illustration was inspired by Illustration Friday’s topic: Save.
In the drawing, a mermaid shops at the upscale “Sea Bubble Boutique” for a land hat to wear out of water. Each “Sea Bubble” is filled with salt water, and accessorized with various sea creatures. I modeled some of the fish and critters after marine life I’ve seen while scuba diving. This illustration was a blast to do!
Colored Pencil on Paper, 10” x 12”
Details:
I know this is a little late, but I finally got it done!
An illustration about Pet Peeves, for illustration Friday. This is one of my biggest pet peeves--people droning on and on without a care if the listener is bored! Media: Colored Pencil & Pen on Paper
(text reads: "And the story droned on and on and on all around her, for quite a significant amount of time. But thankfully all was quiet in the tiny space around her head. And in this space she could think, and dream, and wait out the blizzard of endless babble disguised in the form of words and sentences, forming truly mindless chatter.")
