Telegraph Hill

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Brigade. A brigade is a group with a common cause or interest. The ninjas were a brigade with a common cause.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Round. This motorcyclist is making her way around the fountain, and is leaning into the curve. The rider is Marianne Weber - a Belgian journalist who tested this bike for a magazine in 1952. She achieved a top speed of 160 km/h - proving that the bike was a real 100 mph racing bike.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Vanity.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Silent. The scene portrayed is a silent diner after closing time.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Stripes. A striped zebra was gazing upon the striped lawn.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Fuel. The travelling witch decided to stop at a convenience store to fuel up on energy for her long journey.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Scattered. She is scattering her papers to the wind.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Contraption. The young farmer loved driving his own tractor-like contraption.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Hibernate. The setting is early winter, and a colony of marmots is just about to hibernate for the winter.

This is my take on the Illustration Friday theme, Ferocious. Here we have an angry goose, in front of a cafe that sells chicken. He has a ferocious dislike of anyone who eats poultry.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Mesmerizing. The baby crossing the road has suddenly become mesmerized by a movement in the sky.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Boundaries. We demarcate physical boundaries, but there is also the boundary between conscious and subconscious thoughts.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Mysterious.

This is my take on the Illustration Friday theme of Swell. I chose the old slang term that was popular from the 1920's through the 1960's. You would have heard it in old Hollywood movies and early television shows.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Launch.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Perennial. The tranquility of a perennial garden on a warm day.

The extreme-sport of chess.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Gesture. The mermaid is gesturing to someone offside.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Stay. My take on it is "Stay Calm!" It is an homage to the comedian, Lucille Ball. Part of her act was, of course, having her show panic on a regular basis.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday "Midsummer Night" theme. The painting is of a midsummer night.

This was a posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Surrender. I chose to illustrate it as "Never Surrender" (Winston Churchill). I used as my template, a funerary sculpture photograph, taken by Pamela Williams. I transformed the woman into an older, and slightly more intimidating creature, than that of the original.

This is an adaptation of an earlier painting of mine, called Nature Stirs.

This posting is called Nature Stirs. The painting was done in oil, and digitally as well. It refers to the stirring of Mother Nature, and some of her manifestations - clouds and dust.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday Warning theme. I chose a retro Mad Men-type scenario and decor. There is clearly tension in the room; the woman in the centre is highly suspicious of the one closest to us.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday Layers theme. This painting portrays Sufism; a mystical sect of Islam otherwise known as the Whirling Dervishes . They are influenced by other religions as well, including Buddhism. Their ceremonial dance (and trance) is meant to represent a mystical journey through the layers of the mind and love, to the Perfect . I have also designed the painting as a physically layered image.

Link to: Version II . Here is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme, Sweater. This is a young Lana Turner in her 1937 screen debut. She is known as one of the first Sweater Girls; a type of actress particularly popular in the 1950's.

Here is my posting for Illustration Friday theme, Reverse. This depicts the Reverse Prayer yoga position. This posture is supposed to promote health benefits such as the release of tension in your shoulders and overall body. The pressure from your hands promotes a straightening of the spine. It also opens your shoulder joints.

This is my posting for the Illustration Friday theme: Chicken.