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Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil and Ink on Paper, Osaka Forever Series
Inspirations: Japanese fashion, punk rock, Shinsaibashi
Gayle Wheatley, Colored Pencil and Ink on Paper, Osaka Forever Series
Inspirations: Japanese fashion, Americamura, riding the bull at Saddleranch, Monk & Pantone Rubine Red.
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.
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.
Illustration Friday: Primitive
Sketch on paper for now…this week has been too crazy, but the finished colored illustration is coming soon!
I was recently admitted into SILA, the society of illustrators of Los Angeles.
Check out SILA here:
www.si-la.org
I’m finally done with my latest illustration! This wedding illustration will accompany a wedding planners memoir that will highlight the best wedding moments of the year. It will be published in Southern Bride Magazine this fall.
I’ve been working on a sketch for Southern Bride Magazine, and will be coloring the illustration today. I thought I’d post my working sketch to illustrate my process…
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St. Lucia, here we come Baby!
Just finished up illustrating a whole world of wild plants and flowers for Whole Life Times Magazine’s feature article, “Weeding Out the Good,” about medicinally nutritious plants in nature…my illustration will be featured on pages 26-27 of the April issue, which can be picked up all around Los Angeles at spas, whole foods markets, restaurants, and other health-conscious locales. To find the location nearest you, phone 310.317.4200, x 200
www.wholelifetimes.com
http://www.wholelifetimes.com
