a Da !!!!!!!!!.........
So here it is!
My super enjoyable commissioned new artwork:
♥The Book of Isabella♥
The Book of Isabella
I can finally break my silence about this one...
It was quite some time ago, when i received this intriguing suggestion of being commissioned for a project that involved the cutest 6 year old red head, Isabella, and her mommy's birthday.
Isabella's dad wanted to surprise his dear wife, by presenting her with a commissioned artwork of their sweet daughter as a birthday present.
"....How adorable!!" , i thought, and i didn't regret a single moment of it!
I'm so happy to be able to share this lovely artwork with you, since Isabella's dad also kindly agreed for the artwork to be sold in my Etsy shop so that it can be enjoyed by everyone around the world!
It took 2 and a half months of ideas and counter-ideas, proposals and counter-proposals, sketches and scribbles, disappointing defeats and glorious victories, many cups of energising tea and quite a few pencil leads. Eventually here's where we are now! "The Book of Isabella".
Little Isabella's story book, the book of her life, still in its early pages with only 6 years worth of beautiful memories written in it. But she is not the kind of girl to let her destiny unravel uncontrolled, with her spirit as fiery as her hair she takes control of her life and fills her Book however she likes. She paints on and writes on and scribbles on and tears and crumples and straightens again and puts back in and pulls back out the pages of her Book. It is her own life and her own destiny!
But foremost in her thoughts is always her loving family that she loves painting in her book over and over again. You can see little Isabella's original masterpiece of her family on the bottom left corner, which her loving dad managed to sneak out of the home and scan and mail to me secretly so i could put it in the drawing :D
It was an honour to emulate Isabella's unique style as i drew her and her family jumping out of the book!! Little "crayon" Isabella can't wait to explore the world as she is climbing down from the Book, while big Isabella is putting the finishing touches on her "crayon" mommy's smile who is herself about to jump out of the book and give a big hug to her "crayon" husband for the wonderful birthday gift he gave her ;D
Oh, little Isabella likes Praying Mantises because she says they always seem to be smiling. Well, it seems that the Praying Mantises also enjoy Isabella's beautiful smile because they have gathered around to stare at her!! Speaking of her beautiful smile, i could never be skilled enough to put on paper how lovely and cute Isabella is when smiling!!!
This has been such an enjoyable and fulfilling project. I'm very thankful and excited with how everything turned out and i decided to take the big step to start putting big prints on my Etsy shop with this lovely illustration. So you can find "The Book of Isabella" in three sizes: A3 (a full 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches!), 8 1/2 x 11 inches and 5 x 7 inches!!
You can also find tags inspired by this cute illustration, with buttons, magnets and a pocket mirror coming soon!
The Book of Isabella -- Tags --
POPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful story and beautiful work! (still can't get my ol' computer to find a program that can sync up with your feed but I'm still trying!) I've got feedburner and atom but will see what rabbit I can pull out of my hat!!Did you see I added you in my blog?
Posted by: Laurie Beth Beggin | March 22, 2008 at 12:47 PM