Caricatures, Silhouettes and Illustrations by Leona Hosack

Portrait of my son Adam My handsome son Adam. The other night, taking a break from the children's book I'm working on, I did a portrait of my son Adam! Another sample for my Etsy shop.  I chose to leave out the color on his hair and shirt- just to experiment! A way to highlight the face! This was done with graphite and watercolor pencils.  What do you think? The theme this week at Illustration Friday is "Natural". I submitted a color sketch I did last year at a farmer's market in Dover, NH. I sketch all the time when I'm out, especially when I'm sitting at a concert or listening to a talk. "Fresh" I sketched this (left) while listening to my friend "Poor Howard" perform with Mike Rogers at a coffee house in  Deerfield, NH.   I was drawing from a ways away and he had a different guitar at the time! It was a great coffee house with                              ...

Violet Moira I was asked recently to draw these two girls for their respective birthday parties.Their moms used the drawings for a pin-the-tail like game, where the party goers were blind-folded(or just spun around with eyes closed) and then tried to pin paper hearts on the face of the birthday girl! What a neat idea! Fun was had by all! Epecially me, even though I wans't at the parties- I had so much fun doing the drawings!