Love One Another

    Yay! A new post!  I feel on the ball but a little bummed.  Post contest blues I 

suppose.  Since I had no project pending I thought of one myself.  I got together

some items I love from my bathroom  and posted the pic on twitter earlier this week.

                      Here it is.  Most items are vintage.  The cute crab my 8 yr. old daughter made!

If you tweet an illustration inspired by it and post under hashtag #illustration 

I will follow you!  I hope you will follow me also.  I plan on doing these photo collage

inspiration sparkers occasionally and may offer prizes someday soon.  

I had done this little sketch in my mini sketchpad.

                                                              

   I decided to illustrate this sketch inspired by the colors, scallopy detail on the swan,

and the butterfly in the photo. 

Here is the final art, done in acrylic and watercolor pencil.
This was inspired by my chihuahua Daisy and our new cat Naya.
They are not the best of friends, so I envisioned a brighter future for them...

I think I should have used bristol board, the watercolor paper was a little rough 

for the pencil, but all in all I like the result.  I sort of freehanded the border (so it's a tad askew) and added at the last minute, inspired by Peter Brown's (@itspeterbrown on Twitter) work and a conference tidbit he gave.  I like how it frames the sweetness.  Happy drawing and life to you all.

Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search Final Art!

    Well, today was the deadline for the Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search.  

I decided to post my finished journal design.  

     It's very different from the other submissions I have seen on 

Twitter, which are all really neat. 

  If you want to check other submissions search #globaltalentsearch or 

@lillarogers.

I read on some one's blog there was something like 2500 entries. 

It will be narrowed down to 50 for the next round.  

The competition is fierce.  I tried to step it up by adding 

some of my craft work on Pinterest 

(http://pinterest.com/rachelbollman/my-sketches-n-such). 

I know Lilla Rogers studios reps artists that are versatile, 

so I am hoping that she will also look at Pinterest, websites,

(I also updated my website), and social media to help make their decisions.  

Maybe a needle in a haystack but had a lot of fun creating this little world.

Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search Continued...

    Merry Go Rounds are wonderful in an excitingly dangerous way, so I tried that too...

Then I thought of how I wanted nature to be a big part of my design.  I thought of teenie tiny 

magical people dancing in the moonlight, taking a break from their woodland chores.

       I surveyed my audience (family) and this was the most popular choice.  I said Really?
"Yes!" Since  I kept returning to it mentally I felt this had to be it.  I worked and worked and
worked.  Then the doubt crept in...those kids on the merry go round were pretty cute, I could do
a hopscotch pattern behind it...Sooo, before the brownie~pixie~fairy journal was finalized I
started on the other.  Here it is, unfinished.

   
    Late last week I realized the magical people had a special place in my heart, plus, I put so much work into the design, I decided and submitted it today. You will have to check back
after July 22 to see my final design.  Follow me on Twitter and I may show a sneak peak!  

Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search - Idea Process

    I have just submitted my design for the Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search.  (You can check
my tweets along the way at #globaltalentsearch or @RachelBollman on Twitter.)
The assignment was to design a journal cover with vintage playground equipment as inspiration.  This was fun for me as I love vintage anything.
    When I got the assignment (July 1, 2013) I started sketching right away.  Here are a few of my first
ideas.

I liked the characters, but for some reason felt a little bored with the underwater scene. Hmmm.....

 One of the suggestions was a tire swing, so I got my country on.  Cute, but still I wanted more...