Illustration Friday

'Old-fashioned Remedy'

watercolour © Caroline Soer 2010

Here is my offering for this week's Illustration Friday theme of 'Old-fashioned'. Lavender is an old-fashioned cottage garden flower and has been used for centuries as a remedy for various ailments as well as for its fragrance. My little watercolour illustrates an old-fashioned remedy - you may have to click to enlarge if you'd like to read the writing on the label!

Dried Lavender

watercolour © Caroline Soer 2010

Just what you need to fill a little old-fashioned lavender sachet to pop into your underwear drawer!

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts!

Had a weekend of hassle with overflowing water tanks, but every cloud has a silver lining.. our plumbers harvested the coconuts from the palm tree! Now just gotta put de lime in de coconut!

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'The cow jumped over the moon' -
mixed media on mountboard ©Caroline Soer 2010

Here I am again posting my illustration just hours before the next Illustration Friday word is out! The word is Acrobat. Here's a little painting on mountboard.

I believe I can fly!

Sweet dreams are made of this..


I believe I can fly!

You'd better believe it! Click the pic to listen to my one of Mum's favourites!

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watercolour and ink with collage © Caroline Soer 2010


"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come". Chinese proverb

This week the Illustration Friday prompt is 'Proverb'. Been a bit busy lately so rooted through the archives and found something I made for a postcard exchange a few months back. I created this with watercolour, ink and collaged papers. If you're interested, you can view the postcards I made here.

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Dessert

watercolour pencil and collage - © Caroline Soer 2010

This week's word at Illustration Friday is Dessert. This is an image from my sketchbook created with watercolour pencils and collage.

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'Immovable' water media ©Caroline Soer 2010

This week's Illustration Friday word is 'immovable'. Stubborn as a mule came to mind and that's a little how I've felt about this piece! I spent so long drawing the donkey (at least half a dozen attempts and I'm still not happy) that I didn't really leave enough time to work it up properly and rushed it. Added to that I used hotpress paper for a change - wish I hadn't - I'm so out of practice with this type of paper, as having been unable to buy it here in KL I've changed to NOT and have enjoyed using a much more sloshy-watery technique. This HP is rather slippery and unforgiving - can't imagine that I used to use this all the time! So, I made mistakes and wanted to correct them, but just got in more of a pickle - my mistakes were immovable! I used some gouache and watercolour pencil to cover up botches - really not up to standard and I've been in two minds whether to post it or not, but I do like to keep up with IF if I can! So, I'll hit the publish button and be done with it!

Simon's Cat - Caroline's Cat

New Simon's Cat video!




We move house a lot which means some great toys for the cats - these were terrific and specially for them there was a tiger on the front too! But in the absence of decent cardboard box to play in ...

a basket or plastic bag will do nicely, thanks!

Luckily I'm never without a feline to warm a sketch!

Any old sketch will do...

but a portfolio is superior!