Today, This is "Umbrella"

Watercolor Paint on 6x6 Smooth Bristol
©2012 BEDeuel/Bronson Hill Arts

I posted this watercolor painting to Illustrated Friday last week for "Yield". As suggested to me by Nora, it works for this challenge, too!

Looking forward to doing more, original pieces for Monday Artday!

Challenge: Jabberwocky

What time is "brillig?"

Jabberwocky

Illustrate a section of or all of Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem from Alice Through The Looking Glass. Follows is the poem for you reference.

Challenge ends on June 13, 2011.

Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Challenge: Party

Tea or cocktail, dinner or political?

Party

Do your interpretation of a party. PARTY! Will there be balloons? Or beer bongs?

Challenge ends on May 30, 2011.

Challenge: Monarch

King and Queen, Tsar, Pharaoh, Emperor, butterfly...

Monarch

Do your interpretation of a Monarch.

Challenge ends on May 16, 2011.

(sorry about the challenge delay - I was in the hospital, all is well now)

Challenge: Pixar

Toy Story; A Bug's Life; Monsters, Inc.; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars; Ratatouille; WALL-E; Up... and several shorts.

Pixar

Do your interpretation of a Pixar movie, short, character, etc.

Challenge ends on April 25, 2011.

Challenge: Book Cover

Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Twilight... What do these books have in common? They all have book covers.

Book Cover

Design a book cover for your favorite book!

Challenge ends on April 18, 2011.

Challenge: Peter Pan

Second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning.

Peter Pan

Illustrate Peter Pan, weather it's Peter, Tinkerbell, Neverland, J. M. Barrie, the play, the Disney movie, etc. Have fun!

Challenge ends on April 11, 2011.

Challenge: Super Villain

Hannibal Lecter? Dr. Evil? Lex Luthor?

Super Villain...

Illustrate your favorite villain. Bad guys (and women) you love to hate.

Challenge ends on April 4, 2011.

dance

Phyllis Newcombe, a 22 year-old British girl, spontaneously combusted before a roomful of people while waltzing in a dance hall on August 7, 1938.

Another story about dance can be found HERE.
Another story about spontaneous combustion can be found HERE.

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Challenge: Spy

007? Spy Vs. Spy? The Manchurian Candidate?

Spy!

Illustrate a spy or spy scene. Dark glasses and cuff-link communicator optional.

Challenge ends on March 28.

Challenge: Dance

Ballet, Jazz, Break... get down tonight!

Dance

Illustrate dancing! Show us an illustration that embodies the word "dance."

Challenge ends on March 21.

proverb

"A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. "


Several evenings ago, there was a family dinner at my in-law's house. My wife and I attended, along with my wife's younger brother, his wife and two daughters, ages... um... somewhere between four and eight... or something close to that. Also on the guest list were my wife's cousin, her husband and two young sons, both in the approximate age range of my nieces. My thirty-year-old niece was there too, but since she is relatively well-behaved and doesn't fit into the "child" category anymore, she will merit merely this mention in the story.

Dinner proceeded like most dinners, with cross-table conversation punctuated by clinking glasses, rattling flatware and my father-in-law rolling his eyes in exasperation and saying, "I can't hear you." As usual, the children picked, uninterested, at their meals and bolted from the table early while the adults lingered over their plates. My eldest niece (hmmm! Two mentions!) stealthily began the preliminary clearing of the table to ready it for dessert. The living room, adjacent to the dining room, came alive with the unruly loudness of four rambunctious young cousins. The noise settled slightly after a visit by one of the parents — impatiently prompted by my father-in-law. Still, the muffled sounds of children's voices could be heard, though no actual words could be discerned.

samurai (part 2)

This is from my 2006 sketchbook — my first sketchbook after a long hiatus from drawing.

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samurai (part 1)

John Belushi — a more fearsome samurai there never was.

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Challenge: Proverb

It never rains, but it pours. It takes one to know one. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... Those are proverbs - "short and pithy sayings that express some traditionally held truth." What is a proverb you like or use often?

Proverb

Illustrate a Proverb! Links: Some English proverbs. Proverb list by country.

Challenge ends on March 14.

Challenge: Samurai

Honor in battle, grace in peace, the way of the sword... The challenge is:

Samurai

Illustrate "Samurai" - warrior, katana, ronin, etc.

Challenge ends on March 7.

redo a famous painting (part 2)

This is my second illustration for this challenge. Mrs. Pincus made the suggestion for this version and I thought it was a good idea — despite my dislike for Norman Rockwell’s work.

redo a famous painting

Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence, a delicate portrait of eleven-year old Sarah Barrett Moulton and Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, a portrait of a young man believed to be Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, were purchased by American railway pioneer Henry Edwards Huntington and displayed opposite each other in his private collection at, what is now, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Challenge: Redo a Famous Painting

When I do a Google Image search for "most famous paintings" I get a lot of great images of paintings we all know and love. Magritte, Seurat, Degas, DaVinci, Van Gogh... and the third painting, Dogs Playing Poker. Okay, I guess "famous" doesn't always mean great.

Redo a Famous Painting

Let's see a famous painting redone in your style.

Challenge ends on February 28.

horse with hands riding a bike

Here is a horse and some hands and a bicycle — each with its own easy-to-follow dotted line for cutting.
Put ‘em together yourself.