Loony Bin Art

Gone

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on August 15th, 2008

,

,

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.
She made up her mind about her future on that long walk home.
When she arrived she went through all of her things and threw them out,
erasing herself quietly behind closed doors…
..
I guess we’ll never know what she was thinking.
It’s just as well.
.
- Rodrigo Garcia

.

Illustration Friday - Detaching herself from her old life

.

I wish I could sail away

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on August 9th, 2008

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

I go on to compare that infinite silence with this voice,
and I remember the eternal and the dead seasons,
and the living present, and its sound,
so that in this immensity my thoughts are drowned,
and shipwreck seems sweet to me
in this sea.

- Giacomo Leopardi

.

Illustration Friday - Sail

.

Tagged with: , , ,

Dream

Posted in Illustration Friday, Inspire Me Thursday, Whimsical, children's art by johanna on August 2nd, 2008

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

When the lights go out, the sea would rise at the foot of her bed, like magic.
The four winds would guide ships to faraway lands and the stars would gather around her,
whispering their secrets.
.
Illustration Friday - Poof!
Inspire Me Thursday - Shrink

.

Tagged with: , , ,

Factory

Posted in Dark, Illustration Friday by johanna on July 25th, 2008

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

My friend has a recurring nightmare where he finds himself in a world
where people are manufactured in factories and packed in tin cans.
I shudder to think of such a world.

.
Illustration Friday - Canned

.

Everything is fading

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on July 11th, 2008

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

.
.
.

.

.

.

.

.
.
.....“…but I will always remember the day that I met her.”
.
.... .Illustration Friday - Foggy
.

Chocolate Nostalgia

Posted in Uncategorized by johanna on July 7th, 2008

.
..

The Chocolate Nostalgia site is finally up! It was changed from its original full flash version with animated stars, clouds, underwater creatures (and a flying Mark and Johanna perched on clouds hehe) to this simpler HTML version with only the waves bobbing up and down. We still have some things to fix but you may already check it out HERE.
.
Website by Happy Garaje.
.

Appearances can be deceiving

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on June 29th, 2008

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.Illustration Friday - Fierce

Expectation

Posted in Illustration Friday, Inspire Me Thursday by johanna on June 13th, 2008



A hoard of secret faces.
Illustration Friday - Hoard
.

Tagged with: , , ,

It could be sweet…

Posted in Doodles, Illustration Friday by johanna on June 6th, 2008

…like a long forgotten dream
. - Portishead

.
I saw this boy sitting quietly, blowing bubbles in a busy street amidst the noise and confusion of a festival.
It was like a scene from a dream long ago, almost forgotten, buried underneath memories of growing up.

.
Illustration Friday - Forgotten

.

Water Baby

Posted in Illustration Friday, Inspire Me Thursday, Whimsical, children's art by johanna on June 1st, 2008

.
Illustration Friday - Baby
Inspire Me Thursday - Orange

.

Tagged with: , , ,

Someday

Posted in Dark, Illustration Friday, Inspire Me Thursday by johanna on May 26th, 2008

We’re all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It’s in them all.

And yet there is someone, whose hands,
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

.
Sour times.

For golliwog.
Things will get better.

.
llustration Friday - Sour
Inspire Me Thursday - Healing

.

Last Wish

Posted in Inspire Me Thursday, children's art by johanna on May 17th, 2008

.
Inspire Me Thursday - Crayons
.
When I saw this week’s Inspire Me Thursday prompt I couldn’t help smiling. I had a lot of happy memories with crayons when I was little. I dug up my old grade school crayons and brought them to the studio. There were many broken pieces and a lot of colors were missing but some old favorites were still there - salmon, periwinkle, goldenrod and bittersweet.  I felt like a kid again :-)

.
paint and crayons on paper

Half-formed Thoughts

Posted in Dark, Illustration Friday by johanna on May 11th, 2008

Illustration Friday - Electricity

.

Tagged with: , ,

Strange Things

Posted in Doodles, Illustration Friday by johanna on May 2nd, 2008

He often wondered where the strange things came from
And in his heart, the longing to see what it was like across the ocean grew
- if they sang when the moon was full, if they danced when it rained,
if there was anybody there who was just like him.

.

Illustration Friday
Seed
- that from which anything springs

.

If I were a king

Posted in Illustration Friday by johanna on April 30th, 2008

If I were a king
If I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

- Dave Matthews Band
.

llustration Friday - Wide
.

.