"Whisper"

The Illustration Friday topic this week is whisper.

A whisper shared in American Sign Language (as depicted below) must be a secret of the most sacred kind.

I chose an 18th Century figure to do the whispering because that era strikes me as having plenty to whisper about.

"Whisper"

Linda Beck

Pencil with digital enhancements

"Wool"

I found about Illustration Fridays on Twitter.  A new topic is posted each Friday and participants have one week to come up with a piece of art reflecting the theme.

This week's topic:  Wool

This started as a pencil drawing but, as the texture of wool is so rich, I couldn't resist adding some digi-collage photo elements in Photoshop.

Program Art for Kennedy Center & Refugee International's production of George Packer's "Betrayed"

This is the program art I did for the 2009 Refugee International Kennedy Center co-production of "Betrayed".

Morgue Photos for the Kennedy Center and Culture Project's production of George Packer's play "Betrayed"

In one of the scenes in George Packer's play "Betrayed", the main character goes to a morgue in Iraq to identify the body of a fellow Iraqi working as a interpreter for the Americans in the green zone. The director, Pippin Parker, had the digitally distressed versions of these photos projected onto the back brick wall of the stage to aid the character in his search.
I did all bits of the "distressing" in Photoshop. These are actresses who are all perfectly healthy and weren't harmed in any way.