Caricatures, Silhouettes and Illustrations by Leona Hosack

So excited to announce that my book "Babysitter Blues" published by One Voice Press is now available at Barnes and Noble.com. Click here to  order  it!: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/babysitter-blues-leona-hosack/1120693411?ean=9780989115261 Here's a caricature I did recently for a recipient of a gift certificate given out when I did caricatures at the  Franklin County Fair in Greenfield, Mass two years ago! It is soon to be posted as a sample in my Etsy shop.   "Let's Be Friends" an illustration I worked on recently just for practice. A new piece for my portfolio! Happy Drawing!

I've been going through my files of old work, drawings and sketches, and have found some of my illustrations that I haven't looked at in a while. Quite a number of years ago, I happened to have been asked to illustrate a few stories for New Millenium Press a small Baha'i Publisher out of Macau. I did the illustrations and sent them, and at the time the person I was in contact with through email, somehow disappeared and I lost contact with them. So I never found out if they actually got published.  This is a portrait of George Washington Carver and sketches and a sketch of him in the field with farmers for a story about him.  A portrait of George Washington Carver in ink and watercolor! A preliminary sketch for the pictur above.  The next four pictures below are about how children should be kind to animals, a story or section of a book based on a quote by Abdu'l-Baha.  These last two pictures were for a story about Baha'u'llah, although ...

I am excited that my illustrations have been accepted on a wonderful website called Storybird. www.https://storybird.com/  I have been in the process of trying to find an online free converter that will tranform my jpg files into tiff. files, and hopefully will also convert my regular rgb (red, green, blue) files to a cmyk(cyan, magenta, yellow and black) file, because these format are what the website requires. Since I don't have a photoshop program and I'm not quite up to speed on the Gymp program on my laptop, finding the right resource on line has been a challenge.  Today I found one that works - for me anyway! Yahoo! I still have to resize the pictures I've chosen, but that I can do on an iphoto program I have on my pc. But I found a website on line that converts not only from rgb to cmyk, but converts from jpg to tiff at the same time. I highly recommend it.  http://www.rgb2cmyk.org/ The two pictures below are two different versions of my artwork entitled...

 Here is my latest work: Below is a caricature I did for a local realter who sometimes uses caricatures for promotional materials.  Notice the houses on the birthday cake and the house shaped package on the top of the present pile!   I have been accepted as an illustrator to post my work on www.storybird.com  so I have been engaged in the process of converting some of my art files from jpg's to Tiff files, as well as changing them to the appropriate color format. This is an image that just came to me about a year ago, and I had the sketch above for all of that time, and was not sure whether it was worth finishing or not. I didn't have a story in mind or any thought of why it's a bird girl or why she looks sad or confused. I took it out of my files because I think it would fit well into the Storybird website. The idea of the website is that writers can choose an image and write about it! SO here it is (below) in process. I'm still thinking abou...

These are pics of the last two gigs I did in 2015! Plus a great video on how to cut silhouettes and a very informational video on caricaturing tools! Now I'm ready to use my off season to drum up some new gigs for the 2016 Spring, Summer, Fall and Holiday Season! I'm very excited about a Wedding Vendor Mixer I'm going to in a week in Portsmouth, Maine, sponsored by www.gayweddingsinmaine.com! Hope to line up some wedding gigs for my silhouetting OR caricaturing or even both! A Silhouette I cut  in about five minutes at Sarah Orne Jewett House in the middle of south Berwick, ME during their Home For The Holidays Christmas Celebration in early December 2015. My table set up with my silhouette display at historic Sarah Orne Jewett House in South Berwick, ME. Sarah Orne Jewett House South Berwick, ME For more info. on the history of Jewett House click here: http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/sarah-orne-jewett-house Here'...

I had a great Fall doing silhouettes, caricatures, and even facepainting- especially around Halloween! In September I did Sihouettes for I think- the fourth year running at The Shaker Hill Apple Festival in Alfred, Maine. I had a great time as always and did quite well.  Later in October I did Silhouettes at Old York Village 's Market Fest and did so well, I felt like a super star or something! So many people were crowding into the small room I was set up in in Jeffer's tavern, by the end of the day, that I ran out of paper and sold a couple of unmounted silhouettes to the last few people who didn't mind at all. It was cold in the room and my hands were freezing by the end of the day, but the fire was roaring in the fireplace in the next room, where they were demonstrating how they cooked in the 17 and 1800's! My booth set up at Shaker Apple Fest in Alfred, Me! Silhouettes at Old York Village in York, Maine! I also did great at the F...

Salt River (Mike Rogers, Bev Rogers, Leona Hosack, and Cathy King) will be performing on Saturday November 14th  starting  at 8 pm at Red & Shorty's Concert Venue, a wonderful place for live music at 4 Paul Street in Dover.  We will be performing traditional and original folk-blues, featuring Mike Rogers on blues harmonica.   Tickets are $15.    Please call  603-767-3305  for reservations.     Hope to see you there!