Gosh, I haven't done illustration friday in so long that I'd lost the button off my sidebar. Funny tho, this one came and I just knew what I wanted to do - the theme this week is "Forgotten":
Call it the "Jessie the cowgirl" or "Velveteen Rabbit" syndrome, but there is nothing sadder and more forgotten than a once loved toy. Last night my daughter almost went to bed without her blanket she's been sleeping with since she was a baby. Funny, because I was on the phone looking at it, thinking "maybe she doesn't need it anymore". When I got off the phone she and my husband were conducting a frantic room by room search...and I have to say, my heart warmed and I was relieved. I think my parent's generation would have thought it was an odd thing to bond with an inanimate object, but frankly I don't see anything more heartwarming than loving something that much. So, thus...."forgotten" was a fairly simple theme for me.

I'm in the middle of "auditioning fabrics" for what (I hope) will be a quick and easy fill in project of a journal cover. I've been writing in a journal again and I'm hoping giving it a lovely cover will inspire me.
The centerpiece is a brazillian project I finished a while ago and the fabrics are all from Judith Baker Montano's new collection. My fabulous client presented these to me a few months ago and I've been dying to do something wonderful with them. OH! And I got a fun package a few days ago:

Loobylu - who is one of my favorite artists and bloggers around has started the Friday Archives. I'm not sure how many of you have ever checked out my gallery, and soon it's going to undergo some major reworking.....BUT I put it up so I could look at what I've done in the past and see where I'm going.

The Friday Archives is also a good spot for this! :) And for a good insight into what a "heavy" child I was, you can see two of my early early drawings. In looking back, I don't think of myself as being kind of intense, but I guess drawing pictures of cute things was not really in my repertoire even back then.

I'm assuming we were probably studying this at the time, but I'm kind of amazed at my interest in drawing a plane. Not sure you can see from this photo, but there are skulls hidden in the clouds....just what you imagine a high school kid thinking about, eh? :)