This week’s challenge word on illustrationfriday.com is “garden”. In the Garden of Eden (or as Iron Butterfly said “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”) story from Genesis, God molds Adam from the dust of the Earth, then forms Eve from Adam’s “side”, and places them both in the garden, eastward in Eden. “Male and female he created them; and blessed them, …
The challenge at illustrationfriday.com this week is “leap”. faster than a speeding bullet more powerful than a locomotive and able to blah blah blah…
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “multiple”. One of the most famous and interesting medical anomalies is the world’s only conjoined triplets, Chang and Eng and Archie Bunker. Conjoined twins are a rare phenomenon. It is estimated to occur from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 200,000 births. However, there is only one case …
The illustrationfriday.com word this week is another abstract one. The word is “theory”. “Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses” is a sketch from an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in preposterous drag as the palaeontologist, Anne Elk. The plot of the skit is …
The Illustration Friday challenge for this week is “choose“. What’s it gonna be boy? Come on. I can wait all night What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no? What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no?
The weekly challenge from Illustration Friday is “blanket“. It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy, directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father’s thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter. It is one of the most beloved comedies of all time (It …
The challenge on Illustration Friday this week is “tales and legends“. This is my second entry for this challenge. My first one can be seen HERE. The legend of Pecos Bill grew out of the imagination of southwestern range hands who told tall tales to pass the time. The story goes that Pecos Bill, the …
The challenge from Illustration Friday this week is “tales and legends“. Beginning in early 1888, several violent attacks and brutal murders, mainly prostitutes, occurred in rapid succession in and around the Whitechapel area of London. A number of the murders featured extremely gruesome acts, such as mutilation and evisceration. Rumors that the murders were connected …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “plain“. It is the practice of the Amish that men typically wear dark-colored trousers and a dark vest or coat, suspenders, broad-rimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black felt hats in the colder months. Single Amish men are clean-shaven. If they are available to court women, they …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “stitch“. In a letter to the Board of Admiralty in 1780, Francis Hopkinson asserted that he had designed the flag of the United States of America. Hopkinson had received nothing for this work, and now he submitted a bill and asked “whether a Quarter Cask of the public wine” …
