Caricatures, Silhouettes and Illustrations by Leona Hosack

  Memories-  I remember being a kid about 5 or older, going with my mom to the textile mill shop to pick out fabric for whatever project my Mom was working on for her latest sewing client. She always had customers coming to our house for her wonderful sewing skills.  She often did alterations for them and created hand-made clothing. We went quite often to the textile store. Oh how I loved getting lost in that store, hiding among the rich beautiful bolts of fabrics nestled close together on shelves. It seemed like there were hundreds of them. I became intoxicated by the textures, colors, patterns and feel of the cloth.  When I was in College majoring in Illustration/Visual Design, with a concentration on Children's Books, I did a work-study job for at least one semester, being an assistant to one of the Textile teachers. Besides basic cleaning up after students I got to organize drawing materials, and including labeling shells and other nature items, and putting away ...

  Silhouettes Made By Hand! This is me cutting silhouettes at The Strawberry festival in South Berwick, ME a few years back! Many times when I am cutting silhouettes, people ask how I learned to do this. I have been drawing faces all my life and have studied drawing and art for many years!  When I learned   (around 10 or 11 years ago) that silhouette cutting is something that some artists still do I thought ,wow I can probably do that! So I went online and checked out how other silhouette artists go about cutting silhouettes by hand, and then I practiced. And practiced! But because I could already draw faces it came kind of easily to me. I just look at a person's profile and cut a likeness out of black paper with just a pair of regular scissors that are very sharp! I then glue the silhouette onto a white piece of cardstock. Most people like a 5 "x 7 " format for easy framing, but I do work bigger from time to time. The silhouettes you see below were all cut by hand!...

Helping people celebrate birthdays one custom caricature coloring sheet at a time! A custom coloring sheet for a one-year-old's birthday party- a caricature likeness of the sweet little boy in the photo below. A custom caricature Happy Birthday coloring sheet based on this incredibly cute girl in the photos below! To check out coloring sheets in my Etsy shop click below!  https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/948251831/custom-coloring-sheetcaricature-from?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1 Happy Coloring!

Hello all!  A mermaid, a man and his best friend, gargoyles, a day at the beach, a family in love with each other! I so appreciate that lately, during these weird and challenging times, I have had many chances to create artwork for people that have great imaginations for unique Christmas gifts to give to their families and friends! I did all of the portraits pictured below in the last month and a half! A caricature of a girl as a mermaid drawn from a photo of the girl in a mermaid costume on a lake that her family frequents! Ordered through my Etsy shop. A caricature of a man and his dog ordered through my Etsy shop. A caricature of a fun-loving couple as gargoyles, (which is a memento of a specific event special to them) also ordered through my Etsy shop! A caricature portrait of her family requested by my friend!   A graphite drawing of the photo below! Have a great New Years!  

  Quarentine Projects! What things or projects I have been able to focus on during the last 5 or 6 months during Quarentine that I may not have done before? This is a question I've been asked a few times recently. I appreciate that I already had some projects in the works and something to focus on besides all the changes going on around us! I've was pretty busy but not so busy that I didn't have time to walk on the beach several times a week with my sweet husband, which was and still is absolutely wonderful!  I learned a few more chords on the ukelele! And like everyone else I learned and am still learning a lot more about reaching out to friends online via Zoom and other platforms! I finally had time to finish the illustrations for two children's books that I was in the middle of illustrating. One is the third in a series of Mr. Muffins books, written by Bill Pagum. The other a middle reader called Jelly Bean Jones written by Jane Fraser. And I'm about to launch in...

  Salt River Performs! Been checking out different videos of Salt River on line and pulled this up from two years ago on You Tube. We did this concert for the Summer Concert Series at Durham Library, in Durham, NH. It was a very fun concert featuring Mike Rogers on his amazing blues harmonica! We have a new bass player since this concert, Dan McClellan. Check out more about Salt River at https://www.harmonicaworkshops.com/saltriver.html

Hunkering down at home! New #quarentine and #stayhome designs available on kids and adult clothing in my etsy shop! www.etsy.com/portraitsbylee