Illustration Friday - SMALL
I've had four babies and with each one I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a few days in hospital after the birth. It was wonderful – just me and the baby – no housework, no cooking. And I spent so much time staring into their tiny little faces that when I came home it was a shock to wake up to what seemed to be my husband’s HUGE face on the pillow next to mine.
posted by Julie Oakley at Thursday, December 01, 2005
20 Comments:
So beautifully intimate...I feel like I'm peeking through a window! Gorgeous, fine work, Julie.
Very sweet. Love the grays in this.
oh don't i know what you mean - although I'm the dad, so there are bits i can't relate to! but i tell you what, after staring at my firstborn for endless hours, then turning to kiss my wife goodbye as i left the hospital, her face was, as you say, HUGE. They are glorious moments and you've done a fabulous job capturing that intimacy!
Nice stuff!
Chris.
I was sure I couldn't draw the "right" small baby... so I headed in a different direction... But isn't it amazing that they were EVER so small? My "littlest" baby is now 6'1"... and he used to not make the span from my shoulder to my waist.....
you truly captured the moment...beautiful illustration!
lovely and wonderful
This is beautiful Julie
You've brought back some wonderful memories.
thank you
What a beautiful, warm illustration. Thank you for sharing. :)
Beautiful!
Wow! Such a lovely image you have created. Babies and children, though small in size, are such great inspirations to artists and writers.
By the way, love your new Masthead. I should design one for my blog. :)
Great picture of Mother's Pride and Baby's Serenity! Well done!
Word Verif: REALS
Thanks for sharing about the faces --- I'm unlikely to ever have any and that's something no one has ever mentioned to me before.
Lovely drawing too!
This is so beautiful. I remember that feeling too. Now often, I catch myself being surprised that my son IS so small still: sometimes his personality seems so huge.
Your drawings, Julie, are just so, so gorgeous!
I've been talking about happiness with Julie for some weeks (after all my blog is the Happy-Club). Julie's done some great pics on that subject. This however is part of my definition of happiness. What a fantastic feeling of joy birthing is. The baby can't do anything wrong - even when it poos, vomits and wees over you!
Thank-you all for your lovely comments. If you've come back you may notice that I've done some work on the right hand - which had been bugging me because once it was up on the blog I could see it looked all wrong and no amount of trying to kid myself that it was 'artistic license' was going to work.
Even though the hands are still different sizes it doesn't bother me now as the right hand is closer to the viewpoint than the left hand.
I love your blog! And this, this is so special, what a lovely moment caught in time! Beautiful!!
a-DORable! i wish i had a beautiful image from when mine were born. i know what you mean about the big husbands face thing!
Julie, this is absolutely beautiful. It is so intimate and loving, I feel like we should quietly pull the door to and tiptoe away.
Thank you idahl. Good to see you're joining the blogger book team.
Vit, I knew there had to be someone else out there who'd experienced the big face thing!
Linda - thank you and thank you for doing that illustration in your blog about the paintbrush - made it so clear to me. If I indulge in a new paintbrush I may well get one of those.
First impact--the yin/yang composition of the 2 faces. What a wonderful (unconscious?) symbol of the mother/baby event. Beautiful pencilwork!
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