IF: Blanket

A safety pin and a blanket are all that are needed open a portal to the world of imagination! Imagination the stuff that all the best superheros are formed of.

This week's theme for Illustration Friday is Blanket. http://www.illustrationfriday.com

This illustration was drawn from a digital collage I created. The face of superhero is my grandson Austin; taken from a picture of him smiling at his dad. I sketched it out in pencil then outlined with a tech pen. I then colored with Sakura water color pencils that my son Christopher (Austin's Daddy) brought home from a summer with his grandparents (my folks) in Japan.

IF: Superstition and Inspire Thursday: Ghost

La Llorona, The Weeping Woman mourns eternally for in a moment of madness she drowned her poor babies and upon realizing what she had done ran screaming back to the river to join them.

...children, hurry home before dark and kiss your mammas who love you. If you should hear the wailing --"¿donde estan mis hijos?" (where are my children?) -- run, run home quickly for if you tarry under the full moon she may clasp you to her breast and then you will see her empty eyes leaking tears of blood. And then if you don't die from fear then you will die when she takes you with her -- back to her watery grave.