Illustration Friday: 'Parade'

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I really wanted to do last week's Illustration Friday but I ran out of days! This friday I painted this as soon as I saw the new word, it's not friday today, it's saturday but I think this is the quickest I've ever submitted!

Comments

April Jarocka said…
beautiful Jessie. I had the same problem. I worked out an idea for last weeks but it would have taken too long to do...uuurgh. So parade seems very inviting...
9 May 2009 at 18:07
Jess said…
Thanks April :)
9 May 2009 at 18:08
Roberta said…
Cute... I love ladybugs!
9 May 2009 at 18:19
Unknown said…
Have some of those ladybugs parade on over to my house--I've got some aphids they need to meet!
9 May 2009 at 18:37
Buskitten said…
Haha! Great one Jessie - a parade of ladybirds!
9 May 2009 at 18:43
christine grove said…
oh what a fantastic parade!
9 May 2009 at 18:51
jeff said…
Voilà le genre de travail que j'apprécie chez vous Jessie ! Jessie j'aurais une demande à vous faire !
Sauriez-vous illustrer le thème "Life is beautiful "? Just for the fun et pour apprécier votre vision de la chose ! Si vous ne souhaitez pas, no problemo, cela sera tout à fait normal !
Thankx a lot jessie !
9 May 2009 at 20:26
soulbrush said…
adorable illo again friend. hugs.
9 May 2009 at 21:11
Sohini Basak said…
Wow...neat and very summer-y!

Lovely soothing greens yellows and reds.

And the Ladybirds are very Lady like on their parade.
10 May 2009 at 04:03
Rosie said…
What a party! Great Colours.
10 May 2009 at 14:05
June said…
I really like this parade of lady-bird bugs.
The colours, patterns and shape all work very nicely together.
(Though you might like to check as I think they should have 6 legs each!)


:o)
10 May 2009 at 15:07
Anonymous said…
Better late than never and the cute ladybugs look they are rushing to enjoy something important.
10 May 2009 at 19:30
Raluca said…
what a sweet parade of ladybirds!!
charming for eye and melting for heart!
Thanks for your so touching comment Jessie!
10 May 2009 at 19:50
Owen said…
They look very determined... but just one question, which I guess is related to the question "Why did the chicken cross the road?, but this one is : Why did the ladybugs go over the hill, when they might have gone around it ?
10 May 2009 at 21:23
Anonymous said…
very cute and lovely colors...feels like summer..Happy mothers day...Robin
11 May 2009 at 02:39
Cheryl said…
Happens to me, too. Congrats on an early and successful post.
12 May 2009 at 00:41
SILVER KNIGHT said…
cute and lovely!
12 May 2009 at 03:16
Kathy De Wit said…
Well Jessie, I'm guessing what's hidden in the green... :)And as a comment on your story about searching the right colours...I received on the academy one day of a selfish teacher that I couldn't use colors. If you can do something with some critic like that? Imagine! So from that day on I searched a search till today to combine nice colors...and I'm hoping I learned a lot untill now, not from that women, but by drawing more and more and experience the effect of colors.
We can learn from each other and that's one of the reasons we comment on each others work I think. So you are on the right way I think...and like for this one...there can not be choosed a better color ;)
X Kathy
12 May 2009 at 12:00
Ria said…
This is so much fun in colors and in parade! Good job!
12 May 2009 at 14:45
Eric Barclay said…
Really cute!
12 May 2009 at 23:38
kathy hare said…
a lovely little parade! x
13 May 2009 at 14:05
Nessa Dee said…
Very cute parade!
13 May 2009 at 14:50
lil kim said…
lovely little parade!
15 May 2009 at 09:42
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