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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Illustration Friday: Help


Here's my painting for this week's word "help". I painted a vacationing fat cat from the view of a panhandler. I tried to play around with foreshortening a bit with the hand extending from the tourist's body to the tin cup with the cityscape in the background. To add a little intrigue, I show the back of the sign so that the viewer can use his/her imagination as to what it says.

4 comments:

Stacia said...

Remarkable perspective...I like that chubby hand dropping in the coins. The hand's owner looks so far away - really shows the distance between the two worlds.

Anonymous said...

Excellent foreshortening! I submitted a panhandler cartoon to the New Yorker recently...got rejected, of course!

Michelle Lana said...

Great idea, vern! nice work!

steve said...

Excellent work and originality here! Maybe the sign simply says "HELP"!