Caricatures, Silhouettes and Illustrations by Leona Hosack

Pencil Portrait with descriptive words! Information on ordering a similar portrait design from a photo click here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/230405489/custom-pencil-portrait-with-descriptive?ref=shop_home_active_1 I love playing with words and portraits- incorporating them into one design. I also love drawing my family and the portrait I did above is my beautiful daughter and is based on the photo of her below! And the portrait below that is of my daughter and her two lovely daughters, my grandgirls! I also used this portrait as a sample in my Etsy Shop! https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/PortraitsbyLee/tools/listings/230660832

Mixed Media: pen and ink, colored pencil and collage Here's an illustration I submitted to Illustration Friday a couple of years ago. Actually this was the first one I ever submitted there, I think!  Thought I'd bring this one out again and share it! 

Here is my latest custom order for a silhouette. I just cut this today! What a sweetie-pie! I use two sided black and white silhouette paper, and I just look at the photo and cut, as I would do at a festival or event. It usually takes about five minutes! Sometimes when doing a custom order I'll do it over several times to get it just right, but this one I did only once. When I get the feedback from the mom I may still do it over, depending on her approval, but since it only takes a few minutes do-overs are not a big deal! The photo I worked from! I love silhouetting!

Drawings for a possible upcoming book project. I have had many opportunities lately to do drawings of people and animals which show various emotions and I have had a lot of fun experimenting with what different emotions might look like! A sad elephant- a submission for Illustration Friday I did a couple of years ago! A page from the upcoming book I'm illustration for Bellwood Press, Jamila Does Not Want A Bat In Her House, written by Phyllis Ring Here are some sketches I've done over the years of children showing various emotions! And a great video by well-know Illustrator and Teacher Will Terry on drawing emotions!

My son Adam,  a creative and innovative musician among many other things! I did this just for fun! Just a sketch in my sketch book! A sketch for my latest Etsy order. The final! Regretably there's a shadow on this picture, that I took with my camera. But don't worry. The clients got the original! The photo I worked from for the Caricatures above! My granddaughter-Bailey Butterfly! I did  a little face painting at the Ayyam-i-ha Party at Green Acre Baha'i School today!

A few years ago I came up with a picture book idea that shows a Baha'i child progressing through his day, and incorporating spiritual concepts into his activities. I was lucky to have had an opportunity to show the idea to an editor at Bellwood Press/US Baha'i Publishing Trust and my book Kamal's Day was published last year and is now available at www.baha'ibookstore.com Click here for a direct link: http://www.bahaibookstore.com/Search.aspx?k=kamal%27s%20day Here are three ideas that I used in creating this picture book! Happy Writing!   1.Choose what concept or story you want to share with your readers.  In this book which is a concept book, there's not an actual story with a conflict, and a beginning, middle and end, during which the conflict gets resolved. But there is the story or concept of  what Kamal does during his day and how he practices Baha'i ideals supported by his family.  I wanted to help Baha'i children, and others to bette...

Title: "Bearly Asleep" The theme this week over at illustrationfriday.com  is Sleep! Does this little sleeping child look happy or what? I had fun with graphite and watercolor pencil in this one!