Saturday, December 03, 2005

Illustration Friday: Blue (and small)

"May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through."
(Irish Blessing)
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"He fills my life with good things..." Psalm 103:5
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I really hated missing last week's Illustration Friday theme, "Small", so I decided to combine small and blue and show you a few of my favorite small, blue things. Blue is such a wonderful color to work with; such a happy, peaceful color to me. I love the infinite variety of blue shades found in nature and repeated in man-made items. Blue makes me smile. Too bad "blue" is associated with feeling down. We should say we have the "grays" when we're feeling sad instead. :o)

20 comments:

  1. I love Irish blessings, and this it's beautiful, and your illo too !

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  2. very very lovely all around!

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  3. So glad your back Becky. Missed seeing your lovely work.
    Love the tile look to your image and all your quotes.
    Yes blue is a lovely color.

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  4. Lovely, lovely illo!

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  5. Good to see your post Becky! This one is especially nice...the shades of blue you used are so very pretty!

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  6. This is so pretty. I love how you combined the 2 topics.

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  7. beautiful piece!! Love it!

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  8. Anonymous9:58 PM

    Pretty!

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  9. Ahhh-My Mum used to tell me that irish blessing. Mostly because I was born in May. Well this is quite an uplifting illo. My fave is the nest. Really well done. I agree about the colour grey being much more sad then blue. Cheers!

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  10. Blue makes me feel good too, and your blue illo is such a pleasure to look at!

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  11. Anonymous10:43 AM

    Very nice, Julie! You've utilized so many shades of blue, too! I'm wanting some tea and a blueberry muffin after looking at this!

    And thank you for the recent comment you left on my blog. I really appreciated your kind words of encouragement.: )

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  12. Anonymous10:25 AM

    Lovely work as always, Becky. You have a wonderful style.

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  13. That is really, really nice!

    And, I laughed when you said ..'we should say we have the "grays" instead of the blues!'

    I completely agree! And, in fact, mentioned the same thing!

    Nice work!

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  14. Hi Becky, I missed seeing your posts. thanks for posting!

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  15. Very Pretty! Professional looking design! Lovely blues:)

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  16. Beautiful blessing to go with wonderful illustrations

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  17. Wonderful use of different blues and white. Great layout. May I know if this is an electronic piece?

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  18. Great illo and concept. I love the way it pops off the page. Very vibrant!

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  19. A heartfelt thanks one and all for your comments! I appreciate that you take the time to come by and look and leave such kind words! Chang - yes, this is a digital piece - rendered completely in Painter 9. - SDG

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  20. Get going on sending these out to card companies so you can make your cool millions the Mary Engelbreit way. Nice work!

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