IF - Tribute

For Illustration Friday.

A Little Letterpress Pleasure

I have been hoping to be able to try out letterpress printing and today at a workshop by The Gentlemen's Press I did.

It was great fun going through the drawers of types and composing something witty and worthy of print. It was also backbreaking work doing the layout (filling gaps with "furniture") and operating the press required some elbow grease too.

Seeing and touching (the oh-so-retro debossed feel!) the final print makes it all worthwhile.

IF - Farewell

Thank you Penelope for starting and hosting Illustration Friday for all this time.

IF - Train

Inspired by a song from my childhood ...
小板凳，摆一排,
小朋友们坐上来。
这是火车跑得快，
我当司机把车开。
轰隆隆
轰隆隆
呜 呜

Loosely translated ...
Wooden stools, all in a row,
Friends on board, ready to go
It will go fast, this I know
Off we go! Off we go!
Choo! Choo!

For Illustration Friday.

IF - Wild

Wild? Bows and arrows! Lame I know. Haha!
For Illustration Friday.

A*Live @ Bishan Library Apr 2013

This was yet another fun session together. We tried our hands at this tracing-staining-transfer method for creating colourful art pieces.
There were also some interesting ATCs for this month, including those for this month's theme "My Everyday".

We will meet again on 9 May and the theme is "Yesterday".
Tonight, we also decided to move the June session to 6 June (instead of 13 Jun).

IF - Urban

Just played around with this method, not sure what it is called. This is the more abstract take.
This was my initial attempt. For Illustration Friday.