Monday 11 April 2011

Bottled Sunshine

coloured pencil and watercolour


Illustration Friday - 'Bottled'

It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday, blue skies and no clouds.  I would have loved to bottle up some of that sunshine and keep it for a rainy day or perhaps send it to someone else to enjoy.  Obviously I couldn't do that so I picked a warm lemon  and pushed it into a jar.  The juice dripped down as I squeezed it into the small pot and the smell was wonderful.
I could  bottle some wild flowers and buzzy bees next, but that's already been done...it's called honey!

23 comments:

Unknown said...

Brilliant Cathy! The colours are like sunshine. Love the composition too.

Barbara B said...

Beautiful! I love the warm colors and the highlights.

Anonymous said...

I can almost smell and taste the lemon!

Ellen Burkett said...

My mouth is watering!! Love this!

Pelusa said...

Lovely! Both, colour and drawing are terrific!

Pat said...

beautiful!

Anonymous said...

Fabulous interpretation and drawing :)
Sue

Sandy in Michigan said...

Mmmmm..... I can smell the lemons from here. Great sketch.

debra morris said...

mouth wateringly beautiful Cathy

Elizabeth Rose Stanton said...

Delicious drawing!

Ann said...

Beautiful, sunny drawing!

Sarah Melling said...

What a lovely interpretation!

martinepittet said...

Well, you've bottled some sunshine for us, with these yellow lemons ! Thanks, Cathy for this great sketch !

Sasa Saastamoinen said...

Juicy colors!

Gillian Mowbray said...

Your words paint as lovely as picture as your pencils! x

Anonymous said...

squishy. i like how the lemon really looks crammed in there.

Anonymous said...

squishy. i like how the lemon really looks crammed in there.

Mari Brown and Colourblob said...

Love the colours, and the way you drew/painted it on to the paper (where you placed the jar), its wonderful. I love the scent of lemons too, so fresh. Beautiful!

Alice Andreini said...

Exquisite and fresh. you captured the juicy/sour/sweet very well. The composition is also very fine

Alex said...

Such a clever drawing =) Amazing as always Cathy!

Anonymous said...

Great drawing...love the cropped composition!

Sara Light-Waller said...

It really IS a jar of sunshine! Wonderful drawing Cathy! :-)

Unknown said...

What a wonderful idea and so well done!